Just a little bit. Lots of fat jokes and whatever. Normal shit.
Were you bullied at school.
i was bullied in the 8th grade for being the new kid. not only the new kid, though, i came from southern california. i had transferred to a real shitty, sorry excuse for a school in fresno, california. at the time, i had no idea there was some stupid so-cal, central cali, bay area, nor-cal rivalry. i put up with it for a few months until i decided to beat the ever loving shit out of the main dude who was punking me. from that day on, the bullshit ended and i was left alone.
Is there an "I don't know" choice? Invariably, someone had something mean to say to me, but I kind of didn't give a fuck about anyone but myself in Elementry School, so I wouldn't know.
I was pretty lucky from the sounds of it. People were generally pretty nice to me or didn't pay any attention to me. Went through some light hazing but everyone did on the various teams I played on.
Never was bullied once, I did step in a couple times to stop some minor bullying. There was a couple of times I should have stepped in but didn't because I didn't want trouble. I still regret that.
I should mention and incident that I was not fond of. There was one student a year older than me, I was 15 years old at the time, and during weight training this individual would corner me and hold my wrist back until I got on my knees. He then would make me say I'm queer and that I loved to suck dicks in front of a crowd of boys laughing.
I hated that fucker, but karma is a bitch. He was a year older and upon graduation from high school he had a dirt bike accident and was paralyzed from the waste down. He was one of the most popular boys in school and it shocked me. I met him years later and we became friends. He told me how sorry he was for tormenting me so. I told him it made me, me. Steroids were big back in the 80's. I believe that played a part for a lot of the aggression I received.
Some idiot attempted it once, he didn't try again. But a guy from my old class was bullied quite badly. And not just by our class, but what felt like the whole school, He was very tall, but very scrawny, had freckles, red hair and big glasses. I once saw how people who looked to be at least two grades below us simply smashed a big block (a door stopper) into his face when they passed him.
And it sure as hell didn't end there.
@RubberBabyBuggyBumpers: Ugh, I've heard things about Fresno. And NorCal is chock full of douchebag kids from what I hear from a friend who lives up there.
Just curious, what area of SoCal were you from?
@Deleth: We had a similar kid at our school, although it wasn't really his look, it was his mannerisms (or lack thereof). Very weird, said he was asexual at one point, and just spoke like he was just a bit "off". Karma's a bitch though, he had 3 older brothers who pretty much bullied everyone for him.
I was never bullied, I was fairly talented athlete so I got along with the jock crowd and the nerdier crowd at the same time, it was pretty chill to be honest. I can't ever remember seeing anyone being bullied either, I most certainly didn't bully anyone.
@Ulain said:
@RubberBabyBuggyBumpers: Ugh, I've heard things about Fresno. And NorCal is chock full of douchebag kids from what I hear from a friend who lives up there.
Just curious, what area of SoCal were you from?
i lived in various cities in so-cal: west covina, pomona, rosemead, and san gabriel. i'm originally from scottsdale, arizona. fresno is a giant shit hole. i have nothing good to say about that city. what you had heard about nor-cal is accurate. lots of tapout shirt wearing douche bags due to urijah faber being from around the suckramento area. the only central california city i cannot say anything bad about is turlock. that's where i went to high school. turlock high school was/is awesome. i still keep in touch with many of the people i made friends with while attending high school in that mid sized city.
I was never bullied terribly, but a little bit when I was a kid. I'm not sure if this is considered bullying, but me and my friends found out that a kid we ate lunch with had this weird fetish (he told us). Anyway, the rumor spread across the school so fast. It was pretty hilarious at the time, but now I kind of feel bad about it. He was pretty embarrassed and he couldn't keep his cool when people asked him about it so he would always make it s o much worse.
Kinda, didn't really care too much though, not because I'm some sort of mental tough-guy, just that I've never particularly been too bothered what people think or say about me.
Everyone gets bullied in one way or another. I don't see what the big deal is nowdays. It's simply the cold reality of life. Wearing a pink shirt wont change anything. It's like those facebook trends. Unless we start arresting kids and becoming a totalitarianism state, nothing will change.
Nope, but I just ignored everyone mostly, my circles of friends were outside of school. But there was this one cross-eyed guy that would sneer "loser!" at me whenever I passed him in the halls, from freshman to senior year, and I have yet to figure out what his goddamn problem was...I didn't even know the guy!
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