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Growing up, I was bullied pretty badly. The main thing they bullied me about was being tall and skinny. They had said that I looked like a traffic sign: A pole with a head. Looking back at it, it really wasn't that big of a deal, but it really hurt at the time. I dreaded going to school.
As I grew older, I only grew taller, so the teasing intensified until I was about 15. I was pushed into a wall by someone who had bullied me for as long as I could remember. He was a footballer and basketball player. He shoved me into the wall because I "was in his way". It sprained my wrist when I tried to reach out and catch myself. I told the headmaster that I was being bullied, and he called the boy in to discuss it over with us. That was the worst possible thing to do.
When I was walking home from school, he and a couple of his friends attacked me and broke my jaw with the initial hit, then proceeded to kick me whilst I was on the ground. They broke three ribs, my sternum, and I had some pretty bad internal bleeding. The bullying only escalated after I told the police what happened. One of the guys was arrested, but the other two were not - with the main bully getting away.
After recovering from this incident, I took up boxing. I learned how to defend myself. But, I never actually got to use my new fighting skills on that guy, unfortunately. He moved away with his mother somewhere down south. But I did use them to teach would-be-bullies a lesson later on.
In the end, it made me stronger and caused me to learn how to stand up for myself. So, it's a positive thing, really. I still have problems with my jaw, though. I don't think that will ever go away - and will always serve as a reminder of my past.
by SixxIn the end, it made me stronger and caused me to learn how to stand up for myself. So, it's a positive thing, really. I still have problems with my jaw, though. I don't think that will ever go away - and will always serve as a reminder of my past.
How does having your jaw and three ribs broken make you stronger?
Who is to say you wouldn't have taken up boxing anyway without the bullying. If anything, all that fight really did was show how weak the main bully was. He needed support from his mates to beat up on you.
Beneath all that surface bravado, most bullies are cowards.
no bullies are just doing what gets them off, they can't do it at home so they find someone who wont or cant fight back. but i did almost kill mine so i fought back. (i also plead insanity to this charge, and was not in my natural state of mind. also I was 11)
I know your quoting sixx but i wanted to jump in
by Kane Savageno bullies are just doing what gets them off, they can't do it at home so they find someone who wont or cant fight back.
That's true for the most part. Which is precisely why I think most bullies are cowards. Rarely will you see a bully pick on someone his own size. Of course, I'm not talking about every, single bully. There are some who do.
With that said, I've seen people fight back and I've also fought back myself, but since most bullies travel in packs, it's not always wise to get into a fight, even if you're truly capable of it (unless they physically attack first of course). Sometimes it's better to simply walk away and let it go.
During high school, I had a stalker.
It had started out as an experiment of mine, seeing how far I could push a girls mind without her noticing, but then she snatched.
She started falling for me, though I first intended to do something different with her.
She wrote poems, and stalk me on social media. Later she got paranoid and made up lies about mental illnesses she had, self harm stories, etc. One day she started writing herself hate mail, so I joined in. She tried to blame it on me, accusing me in public, etc. While she tried to dress and behave like me, people drew away from her, her boyfriend realized she was crazy and left her, she began to accuse her friends of harassing her, and cut off from the rest of the class. She spread rumors about me and tried to bond with my friends, to get them to hack into my social media profiles.
She never got any proof for me sending hatemail, so I went back at it, until she wasn't sure whether it was herself writing the messages, or me, and she lost track of reality. She's in a mental hospital by now, and I wonder how far she went, as the normal attention-seeking went over quickly and diverted into high standard sucidal behavior.
I later found out, that she actually got on quite quickly with my 'friends', behind my back, but I got a special way of payback to each of them.
I brought one of them together with a boy I knew who had connections to one of my exes. I got his new girlfriend to think that he got something going on with my ex, and so they fought themselves behind the scenes.
Another had real self-esteem issues, mostly about her looks. I caught her keeping in contact with my stalker during graduation, so I went and sent her subtle messages about her looks for a week, until she stopped attending school.
She graduated last year, finally, and has now troubles finding a job, since she can't get her voice up to pass an interview.