Battling bullies

[hallows]

Were you bullied in school? How did you deal with it? If you were given training on dealing with bullies through work or other places, what were you taught?

[jennlin]

i wasn't exactly "bullied" in school, but i was "the fat kid" growing up, and people made sure i knew i was fat. there was nothing like nowadays, where kids get physically pushed, or whatever..it was just like "omg, you're the fattest person in the whole world", and stuff like that.

[BlackCanary]

I don't remember ever being bullied. A girl talked about me behind my back in 6th grade...but that's about it.

[kwpnjumper55]

I was bullied in school. In the 6th grade I got fed up and beat the crap out of the guy. I didn't get in trouble and the bullying ended there

[madDawg228]

I don't think I really qualify for being bullied, I just dealt with the whole "boys teasing you because they like you" thing a lot in middle school. I tried my best to pretend I didn't see/hear them. I'm really happy we didn't have anything like FB during my middle/high school days, I think FB can make bullying even worse and way more visible to EVERYONE.

[Deleted]

I was bullied a couple of times:
-5th grade, a boy spent every day insulting me in as many ways as he could, and making me feel awful. I still don't know if this was some bass-ackwards BS that he actually liked me or what, but it sucked.
-Junior high was the worst. 7th grade, there was a boy in my PE class who did every thing he could to injure and hurt me without the teacher obviously seeing me. He terrorized me and kneed me in the kidney so bad one day that I limped the rest of the day. He also spent every day telling me how hideously ugly I was, that I was a huge bitch, etc. Nothing was ever done and I just tried to avoid him. He still crops up in my nightmares some times. I was a slow "developer" and in 8th grade, there were a group of boys who "teased" me mercilessly about my small chest, if I wore bras, etc and made me really shy and uncomfortable. Again, the teacher never did any thing even when I would just try to tell him politely and in a non-tattle-tell way that they were upsetting me.

Luckily, in HS it all kind of ended and I had a lot of older friends in any case so would have felt safer if I needed the extra help.

[Deleted]

I don't remember being bullied at all. I don't even remember having to deal with stuff like that growing up.

[georgeharrison]

I went to a small school private school during the worst grades for bullying (middle and high school). There was mocking, but never physical bullying. I had an older brother who I was close to, so although his friends teased me a lot, it never felt like it was in a malicious way - it always felt like little sister stuff. I was the youngest of three, so I was often teased at home and felt really self conscious and insecure, but I wouldn't really call that bullying.