I went to a pretty sketch elementary school where bullying was pretty rampant, so I have to thank my old friends for sticking with me and preventing me from being the loner who's usually an easy target. I've lost touch with most/all of them, but I'll always remember them, both the good and the bad parts.
In high school, I had really bad skin and was crazy self conscious, but I actually saw little to no bullying occur, and it also never happened to me. It seems I was lucky, based on the replies in this thread.