Have you ever been bullied and how did it effect you?

Answer 1

I use to be really thin and got picked on a lot in school. It actually helped me because I started lifting weights and got into the Martial Arts. No one misses with me now.

Answer 2

I was a skinny, artistic, beautifully dressed, intelligent boy so, yes. I've been bullied.

Once in the ninth grade, by some miracle, I managed to win a wrestling match in gym class. After the match the boy came up and punched me on the right cheek. I showed him my left cheek and said, "Ya wanna' hit this one too," in such a way that he was frightened and walked away.

Being bullied made me compassionate, loving, and strong. I realized on that day that he hit me that I had no reason to fear bullies because I had found a way to make them respect me.

I'm not suggesting that anyone else try what I did, but you asked and I have answered.

Answer 3

When I was in grade school I was bullied because I was smaller than the other kids. The popular girls would be mean to me and wouldn't let me sit at their table at lunch. When it was really bad I would put my head down on my desk and cry which only made things worse. It made me feel bad and worthless.
Fortunately, we moved to a different school district and I never had to deal with that again.

Answer 4

I got bullied a lot when I was in school. I'm fine now but if I ever
run into those people I'll kill them.

Answer 5

I was made fun of in junior high, and it was totally humiliating and made me feel ashamed of myself and afraid to walk to and from school. Thankfully I was never harmed physically. I have recovered from being picked on, but I will give you two exceptions. In the 8th grade a boy I liked said I look terrible in black, and while I now wear black with confidence, I kid you not I could not wear it until I was in my mid 20s. Additionally, at a family picnic when I was 10 a distant adult relative referred to me as a boy and said I looked like so-and-so's son. When she was told I was a girl, she laughed -- really hard. I am now nearly 40, and since then and to this day I feel like I look like a boy unless my hair is long and curled/wavy. Psychologically, I feel like a boy if I wear my hair as I did when I was 10, medium-length and straight. Making fun of children can and usually does damage them for life. This is good for the curling iron companies, but not good for me.

Answer 6

if I may quote the band Biohazard: "A man is like clay molded by his surroundings. He starts to take the shape of the beatings and poundings. An assembly line that I've been through, a hard motherf###er with a bad attitude."

Answer 7

Yep.

Its sad, but most of the people I spoke to for awhile only spoke to me to make fun of me. Eventually I put this shield around me.

I took everything people said to me very seriously and with suspicion. I this person trying to make fun of me? Later when people reached out to me, I didn't trust them; they don't really want to my friend?

I'm a lot older now, and am pretty open to people and freindly, but I have to admit I seem to doubt people's affection towards me quite a bit. It's an issue I'm aware of, and am working on it.

Answer 8

i have to agree with baldylocks. i got bullied when i was a kid. but that's a whole different story.

Answer 9

Yes, by the Government ... it made me laugh at them more.
:)

b/c I ended up embarrassing them over it Muhahahaha!
LOL

Answer 10

makes me want to fight back, and every time I do, I just crack. I just can't win.