Bully or Bullied?

I was also a victim to bullying, in as much it left me with a lot of internal damage as I often got dragged to the ground and had my stomach jumped on, often leading to hospitalisation, as a result I have remained childless. We blame this on the amount of bullying I went through durring my schooling. No child should ever go through what I was put through. Lynn-Marie

I was neither. Perhaps because I went to an all girl private school where nothing like that would have been tolerated.

Yes I was and it was due to the Fact that my Mum only had one Arm and this Lad was going on and on at me about and calling my Mum Names. It went on for 18 months and then I snapped and when I snapped, his nose did to. I swung around to hit him and did not realise that he was very close behind me, he had just called my Mum a Spastic again and I just had enough, well he actually stood there and cried and People cheered. I felt awful though and I went up to him and Apologised I had never hurt anyone like that before and I really felt awful I cried. To my Suprise he said, it's ok I deserved this, I have made your life Hell and after that we where Friends.

I was neither a bully or bullied. I studied in an all girls school and we did make freshers do stupid things but it was never serious bullying. I don't like to be bullied, I think it is very mean to pick on someone for any reason. We have no right to do that even, for fun is ok but seriously..a definite no-no

If anything I was a bully, but I bullied the bullys. I was an angry child, so I would pick the biggest meanest boys at school then I tormented the day light out of them. I took out my anger on the kids. I regret it now, actually by the time I was 20 I felt bad about it. I needed help and no one cared, so I took out my frustration on kids I felt needed it taken out on.

Only one time did I ever go along with a group who were bullying another girl, and I don't know why I did it. To fit in, I guess. I don't even think that i really did anything, but I still feel badly about it to this day. After all, I'd already been bullied, I knew how it felt. If I could apologize to that girl, I would, even though the most that I may have done was said one thing to her.. and I don't know what that was. But I still, honestly, feel badly about it. I had a couple of bullies around me from kindergarten on. Thankfully, I only had a few incidents, though. In kindergarten they were running around chasing me with pins, trying to stick me. I'll never forget that. Then, one of those bullies kept showing up in every grade, meaning he happened to be in my class instead of the other one, every year. I'm just so glad that he mostly left me alone, but it's still a fear that you have, having to be around that person every day. Thankfully, the other bully that was a friend of his turned out to be more of a decent guy. He even ended up being a friend of a neighbor of mine, and one time I hung out over there when he was there and we were friendly. He never really bullied me after kindergarten. I also had one time later on in school where a more renowned school bully came up and said some nasty things to me, but that was about it. I really got off lightly, considering that A. I was always the tallest in my class. B. I was always overweight and C. I developed acne quite early, like maybe around age 8-9, although I never had it really badly at any given time. I'm honestly surprised that I didn't get bullied a lot more, and i'm very thankful for it.

i was bullied. not physically but verbaly. i went to a small school in a small rural area were everyone was kin but me. i started the school in the middle of the 3 grade. i a was very tiny person, and quite. i was the kid that sat in the back of the class and never said a word, the teacher would have to ask me to speak up when she asked me to answer a question. but the end of 3rd grade one girl had told everyone i had aids(which wasnt true). i had to put up with this until i graduated. when i told a councelor what was going on he asked me what had i done to them. i graduated with no friends. it was truely the best day of my life. i was free of the miss treatment. i have seen some of them now and i know they havent change but when i look at my life compared to theirs i know who got the upper hand. But i wish them all well in life because i know how to be a bigger better person. and if i ever find out my kids bully anyone, for any reason i will beat the bully out of them. and i hardly ever punish my kids. i dont believe in beating but i will for that.

I am glad to say that I was never a bully of anyone. And the good thing is, that I will never be. I have been bullied, and think that those people were not only hurting me, but themselves. They have probably set themselves up for failure in their lives, due to the fact that they have been bullying people to make themselves better, and to get the things that they want. I hope that the people that are bullies change, and do something more productive with their lives.

When I was younger, I had to wear shorts for our physical education class for sports, etc. and boys used to make fun of my legs and call them twigs. That used to hurt my feelings at the time, but I don't care anymore. I haven't even thought of it til i read your discussion. Kids do and say things they don't mean sometimes. Or they're just trying to be funny, even though we don't think it's funny. I think by now those bullies don't even remember who they bullied or what they did as bullies. And if they did, they probably feel bad about it now. If not, there's something called karma lol

I was bullied up until I started studying martial arts. But early on I was bullied for being a "half-n-half" so to speak. I was very tan as a little kid but I didn't have a mexican accent, so it was hard for me to fit in with the closed-minded kids, luckily, I had a very good friend named Tim, who stood up for me when he could. During high school I got picked on because people thought I was gay, which is a funny thing to me now, if someone called me gay today I'd just kinda ignore it. I was just the first metro before it was metro ^.^ (I'm no longer metro) In junior high school I got made fun of for being pretty small and pretty meek, I hit puberty pretty late, like almost 14 years old. First couple years of high school were my "emo-punk rock" days. Where I painted my nails black and wore eyeliner, and soon everyone who wasn't a good friend picked on me about it. I'm pretty cool now, though, and partly because I don't put up with that. I can tolerate the verbal abuse, which is normal, I am after all still in high school, but if someone laid a hand on me, there would be a broken hand laid upon me. I wouldn't let the same thing happen to anyone else, either. I hate it when people make fun of other people, and it makes me want to bring that pain unto the bulliers. Some might call it excessive, I call it justice and honor. ^.^ Woah, that was a long post, but it feels good talkin'..err, typin' about it. I hope everyone will do the same and try to protect others from bullies.