Have you ever been bullied?

[PiratePony 8,489]

Yes. All the time as a kid, and I've felt people make fun of me now. I'm short (5'6) and a tad awkward and shy. Even though I'm constantly improving with time and I'd count myself successful at life. Married, kids, home owner, potential business owner....my cousins still think me a fool, though. 

[TheRockAReader 53,940]

Yes I have, I had to go into one on one sessions with a teacher, all thanks to those who hurt me.

 

It really hurt and is something I never want to talk about.

[Lucky Bolt 35,217]

I have been to an extent, although it's something I would rather not talk about. Let's just say it really fucked with my self esteem. 

[Envy 6,370]

I was bullied a lot in elementary school and middle school. Then to a smaller extent in high school. Then it happened again at my workplace. Although as an adult we call it harassment, nothing is ever done about it even still.

[Clawdeen 20,251]

Sure. I was quite often growing up

[Snoopy Fan 7,811]

I’ve been bullied so much just for liking SpongeBob.

[KPackratt 691]

At Everfree Northwest last year, someone bullied me for liking Rainbow Dash.

[Fluttershutter 2,876]

Everybody's been bullied and bullied somevbody else to some point. That's just the sad fact of humans.

[Xada 513]

Yes, i have been in both elementary schools.

[Iforgotmybrain 6,955]

For the most part I was left alone by bullies. Outside of a few freak incidents where someone would call me names. I think it helped that I was often around at least one or more friends, and bullies tend to avoid groups because they aren't as easy of targets.

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 42,202]

Was in elementary school. I was known as the kid with the slightly larger head (was born with hydrocephalus, was a lot more noticeable when I was little) and the one who rocked back and forth a lot, among other stims. That has not changed, as I still do that constantly. Wasn't diagnosed with autism until I was in 4th grade, I think, which then granted me special help and protections. That diagnoses probably should've happened way sooner, as I had various obvious signs at the age of 3 according to my family. Would've made my first few years more bearable. I wasn't hardcore bullied, like physically harmed or anything. Just insulted for being different. Typical really. 

On 2025-02-19 at 9:25 PM, Snoopy Fan said:

I’ve been bullied so much just for liking SpongeBob.

Those bullies need some talking to from our good friend Bubble Buddy on how to be a buddy. Bubble Buddy knows whats up.

[Night Sky 855]

I've been bullied my whole life. It really only started in earnest in 5th grade, right at the end.

Junior High School was a nightmare. High school was better but bad enough. College was better still but I had problems with people and it was more that I didn't see what was right in front of me till it was too late. Grad school? I was a weird loner and not well liked by anyone, faculty or students. 

My Ex and ex-in-laws were abusive, manipulative and exploitative. 

My relationship with my parents is complicated and always will be. 

Even all the people closest to me sooner or later feel I need to be put in my place now and then.

And. All of this is going to make some of you conclude that there's probably a reason for all of this. Yes, there is. That's because I am not always a perfect person who is in the right all the time. I've done wrong more than once and I've made many serious mistakes. 

If I ever dare to point out that I don't have a monopoly on that, the other person always pitches a royal fit. 

I'm not perfect. And a lot of people have also been unkind to me. On and on it goes. These are the cycles that fuel alienation and violence.

The good news is, to end this up on a higher note, as I enter my middle age, I am able to step outside of this, and myself and my own life a bit, more and more as time goes on. It gives perspective, and with perspective comes a certain kind of peace.

[IronM17 5,735]

My whole school life was full of bullying. I really hated to go to school, especially the bus drive was horror. The bullying was the reason why I did not wanted to have contact to anyone in my youth and why I became a loner, what luckily changed after I became part of this fandom. But yeah, I hated my school life. 

[Tao 8,845]

I got bullied a lot in middle school and told the bullies by ninth grade to buck up and grow up.    Personally, I hate bullies and stand up to them even more as an adult or when I see it out in public.     It did make me a bit more of a loner but I also found the few good friends I have now also from it, just by being the outcast.   

[SkarletVoid 192]

Many times in school. Not to mention the abuse I suffered from multiple families from ages 4 to 18. I am a very mentally ill person because of this but I am doing my best.

[Mlaatr fan2 239]

Not a lot but yes, I have epilepsy so I guess they took their chance?

[Catpone Cerberus 23,747]

Eeyup. First by my older neighbors (seriously, who bullies 3-5 year old) Then in both pre-school stuff and school I was the favorite target of many because I was "the weird kid", I also cried easily so they got a reaction too. (this also happened in things like summer camps, so I guess I just were a good target) Attempts were made also in higher grades (ages 14-16 I think?) too, but at that point I was so shut in as a person that it wasn't as fun to them due to lack of proper reaction. They even tried a bit of physical stuff (up to that point no physical bullying had happened other than like once in pre-school.) Hitting me to the face in a crowded space (so that they could claim innocence), but I didn't as much as look into their direction, so it only happened twice and never again. 

After that I got a break in vocational school, as I was in IT-related education, and thus I was surrounded by other "losers", and after that I've been relatively free, as both in the army and construction work, there isn't really "bullying" as much as there is men needing validation for their manhood through pushing others down.

 

But as much as it has affected me negatively, and as much as it has made me despise my hometown as a place, while still suffering from its effects mentally to this day, I'm partly thankful for it, as it has made me not only stronger person, but also a better person; it pushed me away from toxic groups, that if I was to become part of them, would have directed me to quite the different route in life. Probably the biggest win for me is that it kept me away from big social media platforms, as it was during the time of the rise of social media, and thus I didn't fall victim to the addiction.  

[Cash In 23,032]

Oh yeah, I was bullied a ton for most of my childhood.

I remember my second on third day of school -- I started early, so i wasn't even 5 years old -- a bunch of older kids (around 11 or 12 probably) beat me up pretty bad. 

Fortunately that was the only physical case and it was mostly just name calling, exclusion, etc after that. It stopped around Grade 8, when I started to stand up for myself and from there, they simply left me alone.