I was just thinking about the awful memories I had when I was in middle school. People would spread rumors about me and say some pretty mean stuff to my face. I can't believe I didn't stand up for myself, it angers me now. I was only trying to be nice to people but they returned the favor by harrassing me.
2006-07-30 20:39:21 · 10 answers · asked by A. 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I have been picked on a lot all my school life through most had to do with being prejudiced because of my different culture. It has hurt me when I was a child. I couldn't understand why they always had to pick on me even when they hardly knew me or my family and I couldn't understand what we could have done wrong to not be accepted because in my family there's a lot of respect, friendliness and helpfulness to others and we are taught at a very early age that it's important to shine our light into the world and lend a helping hand or give support to the ones that need it. I was never able to talk back because I'm very shy and it always made me feel very lonely and sad inside but I didn't show it to anybody I kept it all inside. Later on in my life I started adding one and one together and I had an eyeopener I started to see that their behavior didn't say anything about me but it showed what they were.
I still don't talk back when there are others that act disrespectful to me but it doesn't hurt me anymore the way it did when I was a child. I now know that it's their incapability to react in a normal way to others and to open their hearts for those who are different in some sort of way.
2006-07-30 21:34:46 · answer #1 · answered by aysha 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
EVERYONE !!! kids can be the meanest at that age. They are smart enough to know how to hurt some ones feelings and embarrass them but they don't see the repercussions of it.
They haven't lived long enough and experienced enough to know how and why teasing and picking on others is bad.
This doesn't mean that you have to be a stuffed shirt either, it's learning that point where fun turns into a problem.
2006-07-30 23:11:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The real question might be if anyone didn't get picked on. I sure did. I didn't really get talked about behind my back, because nobody really cared enough to do that. I did, however, have one of my crowning moments in 8th grade when one of the guys who always picked on me punched me on my arm because it was my birthday and I turned around and punched him in his stomach as hard as I could. I left him dry heaving on the sidewalk and people pretty much left me alone after that. Long term, that's obviously not the right solution, so I've taken up humor over fisticuffs as my weapon of choice in such situations.
2006-07-30 21:06:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did all the time. It is sad because now when someone tries to push over me I give then heck about it. I learned to speak up and tell people to back off if they start trying to start something. I don't mean a fight or anything like that. I am talking about since I am older like my X's mother (my son's grandma) for example is was trying to be mean or say something mean about me. I finally had the nerve to tell her off and boy it felt good.
2006-07-30 20:51:15 · answer #4 · answered by rosey224 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You bet--I was the class goat. Kids found out early on they could make me cry, and from then on I was fair game. It didn't help any that I was a good student, and my last name was especially easy to mangle--Battershell. I went to a small school with the same students through graduation, and it was only after I went to college that I found out school could be fun.
2006-07-31 04:32:11 · answer #5 · answered by cross-stitch kelly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to also. But, as I got older I got to laugh at (and arrest) these idiots. Many became fat unemployed idiots. I became a highly decorated police officer and a member of Team USA in my sport. So, the joke is on them now!
2006-07-30 20:44:22 · answer #6 · answered by John D 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everybody thought that I had many boyfriends and I had a pretty bad image. Wherever I went, people would tease me. It was awful.
2006-07-30 20:51:15 · answer #7 · answered by Eata 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did. I think I matured more slowly than other kids. Looking back, it makes me sad too ... I wonder "how could I have not known what to do or how to react to things?" I relate.
2006-07-30 20:44:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
nah i was the first asian to play in a sport so they respect me i was scare anyway there was alot of ghetto people it was in miami but if you get pick at join a sport and get known
2006-07-30 21:01:57 · answer #9 · answered by Chunglee 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u know it happend to me in middle school and in my high school years. im soo sick of them jerks.
2006-07-30 20:44:04 · answer #10 · answered by ♥ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋