Were you ever bullied as a child?

[Marmara]

From 7th grade to 11th grade, i always dealth with dickheads who tried to pick on me for no reason.

Real reason was because they were jealous i was getting a lot of attention from females.

In 10th grade i switched classes and there was this kid in my class who attempted to bully me from day 1, he didn't even take the time to know me before deciding on to hate me. he was unsuccessful and gave up on it.

People always assumed that i was this popular arrogant prick because of my looks, so there was always the ones who tried to suck up on me, and those who tried to challange me. Reality was completely different though, i was a nerdy kid with nerdy interests.

Edit: Forgot to add, there was this girl in 7th grade (who was my childhood friend) that i bullied unknowingly. I really don't want to get into it because i'm embarrassed about it still today, she eventually cut contact with me and turned into a slut in 8th grade. I still have a short pause when i remember it.

There were also other kids i bullied that i regret today. Even today i find myself accidentally bullying someone, i immediately correct myself when i realize.

[Mingle]

Yup. I'd say romance countries were the healthiest about this. Here, it was mostly pranks but nothing really mean or even physical (not that much). If by any chance someone got too extreme all the other classmates would tell him to stop or the biggest guy would step in.

I suffered a lot of bullying in primary school and first years of high school back in Venezuela.

Bullies in Venezuela are very cruel, and I don't desire it to anybody. No even to my worst enemies.

[Mortimer]

I wasn't really bullied (except by this one asshole who I thought was a friend) but I was a social reject. I mainly kept to myself throughout high school, I was the quiet kid that did his own thing.

I was a bit bullied but yes by the assholes i thought are "friends" or i used to hang around, who were in close proximity to me, not by everyone. And I was also a social reject alot, i kept being a bit isolated from the other kids throughout high school.

[Mingle]

No, not that I remember. I also never witnessed anyone else being bullied. This is not a common phenomenon over here I guess. People do make fun of each other but it's not really meant to be offensive.

Pretty much the same experience with me. I did see fights though.

[Incal]

Well, Venezuela has always been the sudamerican country with skyrocketing crime, way above the others (Brazil being the closer) so I'm not surprised if the average venezuelan is way more vicious and cruel than the average sudaca.

[reboun]

No, I was just made fun of.

[Hexachordia]

I was a legend in the 6-10 grades school in a good way, like a Robinhood for the bullied kids, a bit good fighter but not of the bests, also had a friend who was the top fighter--not one of, but literally the topfist of the whole school ground, he is an albino, he lobbied in the heads of the school thug for me not to get ganged up. Bullied? not quite but not in a harmonious vibe with those cretins, pretty much I never changed since then. I was weak during the two last grades of highschool, not into fighting anymore because my teacher got sick of me so I was taken for a sissy boy when I softened myself down, larger boys liked to touch my hands and legs in some way. However I won many fights but people were not afraid of me at all.

[Cybele]

This is not a common phenomenon over here I guess. People do make fun of each other but it's not really meant to be offensive.

Unfortunately, it became more common with these younger generations.
https://www.romaniajournal.ro/societ...ied-at-school/
At some point (few years ago) Romania was ranking on the 3rd place in Europe on bullying phenomenon.

Personally, I experienced some bullying in school but it never got physical.
In highschool (because my classmates were only girls), I've dealt with what some would consider "toxic femininity": isolation from the group, gossiping, backstabbing, etc.
Is interesting these characteristics continue later in the working environment for some people.

[alnortedelsur]

Nunca oí de tales cosas. Ni en Mallorca ni en ningún sitio de España. ¡Pero si la mayoría de mallorquines tienen algún apellido, o varios, no mallorquines!

Bueno, sera por que yo iba a una escuela del centro de mallorca una zona muy rural y de pueblo, en palma lo dudo que pase pero en lugares como el centro si, aunque ya no pasa tanto por que ahora ese pueblo empiezan a haber alemanes xd y marroquies tambien y saber que mas

Concuerdo con VikingMallorcaSpain. En el tiempo que vivi en Mallorca, mas las varias veces que he ido de visita, puedo corroborar que en la mayoria del interior profundo de la Isla (exceptuando algun par de pueblos invadidos por extrangeros como Sa Pobla y Deia), la gente Mallorquina rancia son mayoria, y casi todo el mundo habla en Mallorquin (aunque tambien sepan Castellano). En Palma es diferente, es mas cosmopolita, y diria que se habla mas en Castellano que en Mallorquin (y de paso hay montones de peninsulares, gente de Sudamerica, Norafricanos, y todo eso), pero incluso ahi, todavia hay montones de gente con apellidos Mallorquines, y no es inusual escuchar de tanto en tanto a algun par personas hablando Mallorquin entre ellas, y famlias (padre, madre e hijos) que hablan Mallorquin entre ellas.

Yo apostaria (tal vez me equivoco) que Baleares es la region bilingue Española donde mas se a conservado la lengua y cultura locales, y mas gente nativa del lugar se conserva en las partes rurales, e incluso se hacen notar con su presencia, cultura e idioma incluso en las ciudades principales como Palma, Manacor, Inca, Ibiza ciudad, y demas (mas que en Cataluña, Valencia, Pais Vasco y Galicia). Quiero decir que en esas ciudades principales de Baleares, aunque los nativos ya no son tan mayoria dominante como en las areas rurales, aun ahi son bastante abundantes. Quizas todo esto se deba a la posicion insular de las Islas Baleares.

[Pro.crasti.nation]

I went from unconscious bully (and racist) to something of a slight victim, by the end of high school.
My hometown was mostly English, with a small percentage of South Asian (for the time, it was quite notable - back in the '80s). It was a factory town, which once serviced an old North Western milling business.

Growing up, I tended to be bigger than the other, few, Bangladeshi/Pakistani/desi kids that were in town and also a good deal fairer and "different looking". I didn't really understand any of this, nor see any value judgements around this, just that "it was so".

I tended to bully a very heavily mongoloid looking Bangladeshi kid. Mostly because he was slow witted and a bit of a thug - even in primary school, the other kids had a "gang", which a friend of mine lead and this kid was his "enforcer". I was never one of the gang, nor did they really bother me, but I didn't like him picking on kids, so I'd pick on him and comment on his "chinky" features - stupid really, as he ended up embracing "black culture".

He got his own back, in the end, as in high school, there were more Bangladeshis from other areas and they had a gang, which he was in, so often he'd seek me out for a pushing/shoving match, which would turn into punches and ... I had no back-up, but I did alright, certainly didn't traumatise or stress me out. I was more preoccupied with girls and computers.

Aside from that, I don't think anyone ever bothered me or bullied me.Unless we're talking girls and their groping/grappling/grabbing and other weirdness...