How did you deal with bullies?

[Rangers]

I never had anyone have my back, growing up, and i recognized that my lack of allies meant I'd be seen as an easy target, so I got really big, and I'd never fight fair.

For instance, one kid started a fight with me and threw a few punches, I smashed my elbow into his jaw as hard as I could and threw him down. As he got up, I lifted my right leg up and stomped his face onto the wood floor as hard as I could, forcing him to lay there.

Needless to say, nobody put their hands on me again for quite a while when they saw that. I did this because I felt if I can't protect myself with numbers, if I engage in such cruel methods of self defense which leave the opponent hurt so much worse than me, people will be too afraid of me to try that again.

Medication I had to take to survive also made my fingernails grow very fast, I used this to my advantage. For instance, one girl tried to cut the line to sign out for the bathroom. She grabbed the pen, I sank my nails deep into her hand and slid them down, forming a gash in her hand. This made her let go and recoil, calling me insane as she observed her bleeding hand.

I hated this girl all my life, she had a big mouth and thought she could screw with me because she was tall, this incident reminded her that while she's 6'1", she weighed well under 100 pounds and I was already 180 pounds and lean at that point.

I did this because I believed i could never let anyone have even the tiniest little inch, or others will see it and think I'm an easy target cause I had no friends. She tried to cut me in front of the class, so I stood up for myself and let it be known to everyone that I will not tolerate even the smallest bit of messing with me.

As for those who tried to physically bully me, I never bothered fighting fair, I'd claw at their eyes with my long, curved fingernails if I was in a headlock. On many cases, I put my nails into their eyes before they let go, horrified at my brutal methods. How did you do?

You did well

You did too much

[sage2021]

You were talking about bullies which made me remember my junior high school days.

This was this girl, Denise Pearl, the resident bully at school. She was at least 5'9" and big boned. I was a tiny girl, especially standing next to that Amazon!

This other girl asked Denise to call me and ask this guy who was my ex-boyfriend to call this chick and give him her name and phone number and tell him that she's interested in him.

Well, I told Amazon girl no, I wouldn't do it. So she told me either I call him or she was going to kick my arse the next day at school.

I fretted all night about whether I should cut school the next day or to go and get beat up.🤔

I decided to go to school and deal with whatever she was going to do to me.

She was all alone across the street at this place all the cool kids hung out at.
So, since she didn't have her usual audience there, I just walked up to her and said "You said that you were going to kick my ass today, so let's get it done and over with"!! She backed down and said no. So I walked away after giving her her chance. Oh well...

[Anonymous]

At school I didn’t say much. All I did is try to avoid them and keep distance from them. I was scared to report them because sometimes snitching can make them problem worse. You have probably heard if the saying “snitches wind up in ditches” before

After school I started working full time and I still am. I’m trying to be successful in life. I’m just trying to make myself feel like those people who made my life miserable at school haven’t succeeded in making my whole entire life a mess.

[Rangers]

The funny thing is that the bullies in my childhood were always the one's who ran to the teachers after they try to mess with me and got screwed🤔🤔

[Opinion Owner]

Luckily my bullying was never physical.
If my bullying was physical I would not have been able to hide that from my parents.
I did not tell my parents about it either because it’s possible they might of have reported it to the school to and like I said before you have probably heard of the saying snitches wind up in ditches.

[Opinion Owner]

Another thing I did is I tried not to look upset and angry in front of the people who called me insulting names. I thought if I didn’t look upset or angry that will make them feel like they have lost. The purpose of bullying is to try and make other people feel bad intentionally

[Zack-Bann]

When I was very young I got bullied and let it happen


But then I saw it happen to my kid brother


And I realized that i had set a pathetic precedent for myself and for him


So I took the kid that was bullying him and tossed him down a flight of stairs


From then on my only answer to bullying was relentless and uncompromising violence


And i never got in trouble for it because I never once instigated a fight and the teachers knew that

[CalmUntilAbused]

I wish I was capable of dealing with bullies "Your way" when I was a kid. Unfortunately, most of what I could do was avoiding them, since they were all overwhelmingly stronger than me and I have not yet learned to play dirty enough to level the field.

[4ngelic]

i was bullied at some point because i was fat, personally never really dealt with them myself, i'd kinda just let them say what they wanted and make myself small. sometimes when i was feeling more ballsy i'd just ignore them. the bullying never got that far because my friends handled it for me.

[Anonymous]

I wasn't exactly bullied, just picked on I guess. I hate when my wrists are grabbed and it causes me a lot of distress (I do not know why). People would grab them and laugh. I just became more withdrawn and building quiet resentment towards my friends who also found it fun.

[Rangers]

Why didn't you stand up for yourself?

No offense but you allowing them to do that is beyond pathetic, no wonder they kept doing it.

I'd have broken their arms like I did to my brother

[AviatorTom]

I was occasionally bullied in school. I learned to ignore them, and give them the satisfaction of upsetting me. A bully looks for a reaction by his victim. When he doesn't get one, he moves on.

[LC75LC71]

Nice story bro. I loved the part where you had long fingernails!

[Dargil]

My Irish first came out when I was in grade 6. From then on, I beat the living shit out of people that bullied me.

[FunkyMonkee]

Fought back. A number of them became my friends REAL fast once I beat them!!

[Osborne775]

I also beat up my bully when i was younger

[Kelley1]

I seldom experience bullying.

[exitseven]

Whatever it takes.