Were you ever bullied as a child?

[Creoda]

Nothing of note. People were nearly always nice to me; consequently I'm nearly always nice to others, and never bullied anyone. I was lucky to grow up in a friendly, smallish community (homogenous) with good people. I believe that in any good community, those who get bullied are probably bringing it on themselves to some extent. I had one friend who was bullied, but that's because he's a bit of a weirdo who likes to be transgressive for the sake of it (wearing dresses etc).

[Celestia]

I'm jealous of everyone who posts that they never experienced or witnessed bullying. That's awesome! The worst bullying I witnessed was a boy in 5th grade who had cerebral palsy and was wheelchair bound. He was pushed into the middle of the street after school (multiple times) and the bullies would put the wheelchair locking mechanism on. It was sad. I'd run over to help him, but luckily all the cars would stop, and adults would help him. They'd also tip him out of his wheelchair.

Another instance was a group of kids on their way home from school. I watched them many times take a dog with a shock collar/invisible fence and purposely shock the dog, by carrying them past the line. The dog would cry, and they would laugh. It made me sick and my blood boil. One day I mustered up the courage to say something. They just laughed at me. My friend and I, though, knocked on the owners door, nobody answered, but we left them a note about their dog being abused.

I have too many examples. I hated people for the longest time. I still do, though I'm not supposed to. Hate the sin, love the sinner...

This makes me sick to my stomach. I would’ve killed someone if they did that to my child.
That’s the very reason why I stayed home with my son..
I could never trust anyone else to properly care for him and people can be so cruel.

[Ellethwyn]

This makes me sick to my stomach. I would’ve killed someone if they did that to my child.
That’s the very reason why I stayed home with my son..
I could never trust anyone else to properly care for him and people can be so cruel.

It was so awful
You are a smart mama for staying home with him. I wouldn't trust others with my kids either.

[Anglo-Celtic]

Some of my coaches and teachers were bullies, which was even worse than students. I had a chip on my shoulder, that was the size of a mountain, for a while. There was a bright side, though. It taught me to not trust authority figures, and *that* greatly improved my life (cough, Fauci, cough).

[Anglo-Celtic]

Another instance was a group of kids on their way home from school. I watched them many times take a dog with a shock collar/invisible fence and purposely shock the dog, by carrying them past the line. The dog would cry, and they would laugh. It made me sick and my blood boil. One day I mustered up the courage to say something. They just laughed at me. My friend and I, though, knocked on the owners door, nobody answered, but we left them a note about their dog being abused.

I encountered an act of animal cruelty that put my life at risk. It's so OTT that I can't post it here, but the dog abusers were kids like me, and the threats and the torturing were demonic!

[rothaer]

Yes, it occured mainly in the 7th and 8th school class. I'd say it had no particular reason, but this: Many boys became bullies at that age and in tendency everyone bullied everyone. But as I was socialising with just one individual at a time and not much in groups I regularly faced groups that outnumbered me or me + 1, which encouraged them. I was involved in conflicts and defensive struggles again and again. Sometimes I even attacked. I essentially always managed to defend myself, but experienced all that involvement as laborious and unpleasant. Of course, one learns important things for one's life out of such events and I guess this is the deeper meaning of such a "bullying era" in the development of an individual.

Later I never faced being bullied.

[Incal]

There was really mean stuff in here as well, at least in my city. The thing is, there wasn't a name for it and was somewhat discarded as "normal", part of the process of kids growing up. When in primary school professors would beat students if they misbehave with a wooden stick in the head or with a wooden ruler in the palm of your hands, and was relatively accepted. But I do know of kids at the time that had to change school due to constant beating and humiliations perpetuated by other students.

lol that was the rule here.

[Ranger0075]

Definitely not in my childhood, but during my puberty yes... I didn't grew up like other kids, at 14 I was only 153cm/34kg teenager, so obviously an easy prey... fortunately for me I grew up smth like 25cm, mainly at 16/17 yo.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

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.

American youth culture is violent. What struck me about visiting family in Spain was I could walk around by myself and other kids would just go about their day, while here in the US there was always someone looking for a fight (always in a group, of course), and on top of that, you're fighting with your friends and I don't mean playful fighting. However, these are not brave kids. If you were walking with your friends, they're minding their business. If you were by yourself getting milk at the deli, then suddenly they have courage and mouth off to you. You might be fighting one, or maybe you'll be fighting all of them.

The only actual bullying I can think of was in 7th grade science class this kid sitting behind me was jabbing me in the back with his pen but not enough to break skin. I was afraid to fight in school because it was a Catholic private school, and if I got in trouble, I'd get my ass kicked at home. My father would have understood but my mother always sent me mixed messages ('Don't let anyone pick on you. Don't you dare get in trouble in school.') She was always (and still is) concerned about what other people will say and if I got kicked out of school for striking another student these people whose opinion she cares about would know and that means my life would be hell at home. Anyway, I punched him in class. The teacher was cool with it. There were no consequences.

[Anglo-Celtic]

Definitely not in my childhood, but during my puberty yes... I didn't grew up like other kids, at 14 I was only 153cm/34kg teenager, so obviously an easy prey... fortunately for me I grew up smth like 25cm, mainly at 16/17 yo.

I was that tiny when I was 12 (not that light, though), and I knocked out a much bigger 16-year-old bully with a brown belt in something. I think that the poor guy required years of therapy for the humiliation.