It was a very frequent thing that occured in my younger years. Because I was a nred, and I liked New Wave and I was very articulately spoken gentleman and scholar, I was a very easy target.


But now that I'm older and stronger, if I see any of those bullies again, I'll kill them. I'm dead serious. I'll fucking kill them.

Well, OK, maybe not kill them, but do so really bad damage to them. You have no idea how much trauma they've caused in my life. I still see a couple around in my 'hood, so I can identify them. They better pray that I don't come across a broken glass bottle. Even if it's broken that bottle can still be of good use.

To borrow a phrase,

Whoa.

dude let it go now... counselling is a good thing

dude, doing something that rash automatically stoops you to their level. don't do that.

as for me--i always kept pretty much to myself when i was younger, so i really wasn't noticed too much in order to get bullied. the closest thing to bullying i ever suffered was being called "freak" in high school because of the way i dressed and all my goth and punk friends that i hung out with. it didn't bother me at all, because it was totally lame. that, and the majority of my classmates accepted (and revered me, in a way--they'd never met or known a punky sista until they met me) who i am.

eraclito said:

He's not kidding.

yeah, i was bullied a lot but i usually got out of it fairly easily with my wits, or just by exuding the simple fact that i didn't give a damn about them.

i had a few nasty scrapes with bullies, and i don't know why i haven't let it become baggage in my adult life...it's just that, even as a kid, their opinions and threats meant nothing to me. i was an existential little motherfucker, though.

Yup.

By a girl named Bobbi Jo Rogers when I was about 16.

She just moved here from Akron Ohio, which she used to always say to us to scare us. She used to wear gang colors and shit and say she was gonna fuckin kill us.

Well, one of my BEST guy friends and I who used to be together like every day, she liked. He didn't like her back and she took it out on me.

If she say me at the basket ball court (where we used to hang out) she'd throw big ass rock at me and say you better run or I'm gonna fuclink cut you.

(I believed her)

One day she hit me in the face with a dog chain from behind. She like whipped it at me.

(Did I add that she was PREGNANT)

Well, one nite I was walking with a bunch of friends, and all of a sudden outta no where I got sucker punched in the face and pulled by the hair onto the ground. She kicked the shit outta me, I had to get stitches in my mouth n all.

The stupid bitch did it rite in front of the police station. Well, like a block away.....so you know where I went from there.....

OK, maybe I'm just angry. But I don't think you understand the extent of my problem. On a typical day in the 8th grade I remember getting randomly jumped by this group of 6th graders. But there were about 8 of them, so it was a bit difficult to defend myself.

Anx said:

exactly. THEY don't know who you are, so why let it bother you so badly that you let it continue to feed on you to the point of anger, nwf? at the end of the day, all that matters is you and those who know and truly love you for who you are.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Well, it sounds like he was really traumatized by actual violence. That's not that easy to just brush off. Not to say that you shouldn't try to work through it and let it go, because walking around wanting to kill people all the time is probably not all that healthy, yanno.

FunkMistress said:

true.

ah, you could say that, yep

My brother and I fought viciously when I was a child. He really was the worst bully to me. He was 5 years older than me, too. He called me names, I had bruises constantly all over but I once knocked the wind out of him. I learned how to fight, though.

I got the usual stupid comments from people in jr high and high school for being a freak. I once got pushed around by a big jock guy in high school cause I was wearing plaid tights.

But when I was around 14 or so, I stopped bullies from picking on some younger kids in my neighborhood. It happened a few times, but I particularly remember when I saw some mean boy steal another little girl's homework and she was crying and I got it back for her and chased him all the way down the block.

NWF said:

But thats past.. let it stay there.. only you are making it still part of today

CarrieMpls said:

Go Carrie!

My older brother used to bully me always.. but he called it play..

lol

I wouldnt say I got bullied, cos if anyone gave me shit, I gave them 10 times back, so in the long run I have to thank my brother for kicking the shit out of me.. it taught me alot.. nobody dared mess with me at school

although I had a friend at school, Kirsty and she was really messed up in the head.. her mum died when we were 13 and Kirtsy would use and abuse that to treat her friends like shit, emotionally, and emotionally bully us, but we darent be nasty back cos she would remind us about her mum,, it was really fucked up..

sure by my brother all the time when I was younger.

i guess i lucked out...my brother's never been the bullying type. in fact, he's more the kind of person who'd get bullied. i'd have to kick some ass in order to defend him, if it came down to it. i don't think that's ever happened, since he (like me) keeps to himself a lot.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Same here.

Miraculously I somehow managed to get through High School without any major bullying.

I think that I was just SO much smaller than everyone that it took the fun out of it. Plus I always kept to myself and didn't let any occassional teasing bother me.

There was this one punk in my sophomore year - in Math class - that singled me out to tease for most of the semester. I never acknowledged him.

Interestingly enough...I ran into his partner-in-crime at the repair shop a few years back. He remembered me and was all nice and everything.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

i think of all the people who bullied me and tried to make me feel low, and i wonder where they are now. still in a small town in indiana? working in factories? grocery stores? taking over daddy's car dealership?

nothing against any of those professions, but those people had the peak of their life experience in high school. i've lived in amazing places, met amazing people, seen fantastic things, traveled just about everywhere i've wanted to go, accomplished a few dreams.

i wouldn't trade places with my bullies for anything. i wound up getting the last lick in.

Anx said:

yup! recently i found out where a few of the bullies i knew in school ended up at...in the polk county jail back home. that tells me a lot.

Yup, because I was poorer than the rest..

Now look at me I am rich in spirit...

sag10 said:

exactly, mama!

sag10 said:

Yeah, three girls that I grew up with. They were like my sisters. Their parents were dirt poor, and they had NOTHING.

I didn't realise it so much at the time, but looking back, I was like so THATS why they always got baths at our house.....a lot of the time they didn't have oil for hot water.

Now, ALL three of them, live beautiful blessed lives.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

I have to agree with the OP, bullies should be taken out and shot. It's something you never get over and does effect you thrpugh life.

I don't wanna hear crap about bullies being children, they DO know better at that age...they simply CHOOSE to act the way they do. As such they are responsible and should suffer the consequences.

If i had absolute power i would seek revenge on all those who have done me wrong.

CarrieMpls said:

Similiar, my brother bullied me also...and beat me. All under the guise of "play fighting". To this day i rarely (if ever) speak to him...it's an unspoken thing.

Oh, I don't know. How about EVERY DAMN DAY OF MY LIFE? I suffered incredibly as a child because of this.

NWF said:

maybe if u met them now, years on, they'd be full of remorse. People do change.