Raise your hand if you have been bullied!

I spent all of my school years being pushed around. I was very skinny (still am) and very short. When I graduated HS I stood less than five feet tall and weighed in the 90 pound range. Yep, my hand is up

Hands up (not just one hand). They are stalking me, i don't even feel safe in this place, because their words are belonged to the bullies. And i believed some of them can become a bouncer or criminals. They said i'm not fit in the friendship website, and they said bad things about my english skill on the blog, so i erased it because i have had enough and i want to vomit about this. Probably, just probably, they searched for me in the internet to get my last activities to fulfill their curiosity and to to satisfy their greed to hurt others. Maybe they will see what i am doing here, and they will respond, but go ahead, that's it. Shame on them for who wanted to be my tail. Search God, do not search me! They spread my photos to their friends, till on the street or wherever i go sometimes people called me with the nicknames they gives me. They guys are itchy, i've had a husband and child. And the women are fussy and jobless.

Raising my hand, yep, I'm one too. I was bullied for most of my school years. I absolutely loved school. I always walked around with all of my school books, very proud of being an A student. I never in any way felt better than others but the girls who bullied me called me stuck up ____. Yeah, don't wanna say, lol, but they were pretty cruel. I was never popular with the "in crowd". I was also proud to say I was a christian and loved the Lord so that was another reason to be bullied even more. My oldest daughter who is now 10 gets picked on alot in school too because she does so well in school and is proud. I see myself in her so much but I think it affects her more than it did me. She's very emotional and doesn't understand why people can be so mean. I always tell her how proud we are of her and sometimes people can be cruel or just jealous but it's so hard to see her go through it because I remember how hard it was growing up and being picked on for no reason. I was picked on to the point where girls were pushing me around in the hallways, dropping my books, and pushing me down on the ground. I NEVER want to see my daughter go through that, ever.

Yes, I was bullied when I was around 8 years old. A bigger guy used to wait for me to come out of a store with chocolate and threaten me until I gave it to him. One day I refused and he threw me to the ground and slammed my head into the concrete. I avoided going that way home for a while until one day a few years later I saw him and it looked like he was going to get me again. This time I hit him - it didn't seem very hard to me, but he ran off and never bothered me again. I then discovered that I merely needed to stand my ground with bullies and they would invariably back down, so without ever having any real physical contact it got out that I could look after myself. I'm pleased though that I never had to prove it, because I wasn't exactly the strongest kid in the school. I just wouldn't let fear control me again, as I discovered from that first experience, that it didn't mean that you would get away unhurt but by standing my ground I would end up much safer. I know all bullying experiences are not like the one I had, but that's what worked for me. I am going back to the 1960s here though! - Derek

Raises hand! Yup--I was bullied as a kid. One, I was thin, two I was short, three I was a brainy geek and kids just love targeting the brainy types...it also didn't help that I was painfully shy. Things changed as I got older and felt more confident with myself--so being bullied is a thing of the past..thank goodness

yeah I have been bullied it was a long time ago in grade school I finally put an end to it when I stood up to the bully

well kind of.. i was homeschooled so my only contact with other kids were via church and i was teased some about my looks (ulgy duckling) but not very bad and i still had a lot of friends.. just this girl's dad had a power position in the church and mine had one in a different section of the church so we were rivals in a way because of our dads positions.. if i had been to real school i may have been more but i will never know.. usually i always have a ton of friends to where if i am teased or bullied its just by another person that wants to be in the group or wants to be better than my circle of friends and jealous

I can't say I have. The few who have tried it found out the hard way not to. In fact, I get so het up about that, that from early school days I used to bully the bullies - that is, if a bully operated in my presence I'd stand over him, and since I was tall and well built for my age (I stopped growing at 14 and they all caught up lol), my intervention was always effective. I remember one time vividly. We were living briefly in London while my father pursued his music studies at Cambridge. A couple of African negro children, brothers, started mid-term, when their father was sent to England with his country's embassy. They had to face not just the normal problem half-term kids face, but the novelty of being black in an all-white school, as well as all the conscious and unconscious racism of the 1950s. They were chased mercilessly around the schoolyard during all breaks, and it wasn't till the third day that I saw the fear and desperation in their faces. It sent me right off, and I decked three kids, breaking one's arm, in my indignation. I was 7, I think. I got sent home, parents called in, but when I told the head why I had done it, he had the decency to put an instant stop to the bullying. The two boys were withdrawn from the school a few days later. So, I sympathise with all victims of bullying. Lash

Yeah I have been bullied. I was bullied all through out elementary and Jr. High. It was crazy but once I got into Highschool it was all over. I wasn't taken any of that crap. I think bulling is a part of life. Every child experiences in some way or another. I read your comment out loud and my 5 year old scream, "I've been bullied before!" LOL I was shocked.