I got the usual ching chong chang stuff, but it wasn't too bad. It was a factor though when I moved away from my hometown years later. I was also targeted in junior high by some kids, but started lifting weights and the problem faded over time. All in all, I consider myself lucky to have escaped serious bullying.
Were you bullied as a kid?
pineapple / 12802 posts
To an extent yes. I think most kids are. There were a few girls who were particularly mean to me but nothing I couldn't handle.
It was definitely not as bad as some of the other kids I went to school with.
hostess / wonderful watermelon / 39513 posts
Just a few mean girls and boys. Nothing that bad!
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
I was teased. There was even a period in middle where I was ostracized by my group of friends. I still don't consider it bullying and consider myself lucky to have escaped the tortures of some stories I hear nowadays 
apricot / 452 posts
Yes, for a variety of things - being the slowest to develop of the girls in my class (by both boys and girls at school), being the new kid in a richie rich village whose parents couldn't afford to buy the fancy pants clothes / in style stuff, being one of the smart kids, just not being popular. I hated most of the kids I went to school with, and still struggle with whether to go to reunions, etc. I love my friends, but the kids who made my life hell in middle / high school were just awful. I know most of them have grown up by now, but it still hurts.
coconut / 8430 posts
The usual kid stuff about my petite size, calling me names, being a crybaby and calling me a loser. It hurt, but not nearly as much as when I found out that my friends had started talking behind my back, saying the same things and then excluding me from things and telling new people I had never met (when we moved on to highschool) to treat me horribly too. That was 1000x worse. It went on from when I was around 9 until I was 14. I'm not sure if it falls under bullying, though I did feel bullied.
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
I was teased for being skinny and pale, but I was never bullied.
blogger / pomegranate / 3201 posts
A little bit. In middle school there was a girl who was friends with my group who hated me and would do mean things. That three way call thing from the movie mean girls? Someone else totally did that to me. In high school, a group of boys hated me (probably because I wouldn't sleep with them) and they egged my car a couple of times. I think I was easy to pick on.
hostess / wonderful apple seed / 16729 posts
Yup, mainly in elementary school. In middle school, it went away. Don't remember what happen to my bully... Maybe he moved.
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
Yes(ish). I feel like they didn't call it bullying back then. But I was definitely made fun of a LOT and teased a ton. I remember coming home crying a lot (the girls on the school bus were some of the meanest!). I also was given a pretty horrible nickname at the beginning of high school, which stuck with me for a while, and sucked. And it didn't help that my brother, who was popular, pretended we weren't related (thanks bro).
But by the end of high school, I didn't care what others thought of me and a lot of the kids in my class really matured and were a lot nicer. I think overall, it made me a stronger person!
blogger / pomegranate / 3201 posts
@sunny: I totally remember every single one of them and what they said/did. I know what a few of them are up to now and I totally have a better life, lol.
hostess / cantaloupe / 6486 posts
Not really. There was a girl in my 5th grade class that really teased me a lot &made me cry but nothing ever progressed past that. I was excluded here & there a few times but nothing major.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
Yes, I had a very weird situation where I was considered "popular" but got picked on for weird things. 3 guys were suspended my sophomore year for hanging out posters around school advertising that I was on my period. Mortifying at the time, stupid now. (Haha and it wasn't even true) I grew into myself by my junior year and hung out with the older crowd and just ignored my classmates and they moved on to someone else. I had a good group of friends who helped me realize it was stupid.
coconut / 8430 posts
@mrs. tictactoe: I deleted that because I was a bit ashamed but I am glad I am not the only one who feels that way. The 3-way call thing happened to me too.
pomegranate / 3791 posts
Yes, badly. No particular reason, I was just shy and the ringleader of the bullies decided that I was a good target. My best friend from high school will say, "You know how you see movies with high school bullies that are just ridiculously over the top and you think that shit could never happen in real life? Yeah, it was worse than that." And she's right, it was.
The school suspended the main bully approximately a million times, but things just kept escalating and escalating. I finally had to file a police report - she had a background of getting in trouble with the police, and whatever they said to her finally got her to back down a bit. In 11th grade she got transferred to the alternative high school and I finally didn't have to deal with her anymore. She's still into some pretty messed up stuff from what I've heard. I would have sympathy because I know she had a terrible home life growing up, but I'd say my last bit of sympathy went out the window.when she almost ran me over with her car (and the almost was not for lack of trying. And I was not even in the street.)
persimmon / 1343 posts
Not really, I was lucky that I was pretty much ignored by any mean kids in elementary school and middle school, and by high school everyone just hung out with their friends and bullying didn't really happen because the school was extremely diverse.
eggplant / 11287 posts
I wasn't necessarily bullied...but a group of guys called me "heifer" all throughout high school instead of my name, Heather. They literally never used my name, they just called me heifer. I hated it.
cantaloupe / 6730 posts
Yes, but it wasn't as extreme as other stories and it was mostly in elementary school. It got better and better as went to junior high and then high school. Smaller fish in bigger pond worked to my advantage.
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