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I was bullied in kindergarten by a girl..It was unbearable..She took my crayons. paste,my baseball cards, my favorite apple pie at lunch..I even brought 2 apple pies for lunch-Amy took both pies..No self respecting 5yr boy reports to his teacher that a girl is bullying him... Amy made me walk her home after-school which indeed workout rather well...she was the perfect bodyguard..Amy was also cheerleader in HS and my date on prom night.

So did you eventually get to take her pie? :)

I think everyone has at some point in life. Fortunately, my situation happened when i was in 3rd grade.

The first year i moved to ohio, everyone was REALLY cool, with the exception of these two kids who did not like me for whatever reason.

I would walk home from school taking shortcuts through back yards and, coincidentally, had to walk by one of those kids back yards every day. Well they finally got wise to this and started waiting for me. They would throw shit at me and another kid i became really good friends with from his back yard and eventually started chasing us.

Well one day my backpack was full of books so i didnt have the mobility i usually have and they caught up to us. They started picking on my buddy, one went even as far as to swing a broken piece of fence he had picked up along the way at me. I had had enough. I grabbed the arm he was swinging with, twisted it and hip tossed his little ass over my shoulder and popped him in the mouth. I asked the kid picking on my friend if he wanted to be next. They both ran off never to screw with us again. I guess all the former years of tae kwon do as a child payed off. I am so passive i never really thought i would ever have to use any of that in my life.

As i got older, i began to work out like a savage. I think my size alone deterred any of that from happening again.

Coincidentally the two kids that bullied me when i was younger, ended up playing baseball with me in highschool; we ended up good friends by the end of oour senior year.

Moral of the story: Don't be afraid to stand up for yourself. People will respect you for it. Especially when those people see that you are being picked on for no good reason.

Hell yeah! If you didn't stand up for yourself it was going to be a long life in the neighborhood i grew up in. You didn't have to win the fight, but to keep the bullies away you had to at least fight back or roll with a posse 10 deep with fighters in it LOL. The bullies always gravitated towards the kids who gave them the least resistance to ass kicking.

Never really been bullied, but was physically threatened by older kids in the hood. Not a big problem. By todays standards I was tormented without mercy. LOL The definition of bullying has really changed.

never really got bullied much in school. I was always one of the bigger kids in my class and kids who got bullied were usually the smaller weaker kids.

I only recall once in my school year of getting bullied. I was in third grade and I had just started school at Beverly Gardens Elementary. There was this kid named Dougie who lived down the street from me and he was kind of on the small side. However he chummed around with about 3 older kids who were a grade higher than me. Since he lived on my street he would walk home from school the same route as I would. And if he happened to encouter me, Dougie would always start a fight with me and then his friends would get behind or beside me and randomly punch/kick me. It always ended up with me on the ground and all four of them laughing while they punched on me or kicked me. This went on for about a week. I told my parents about it and the told me to get a big stick and beat the shit out of them. So I took one of my fathers buck knives he used to skin deer with and pocketed it for the walk home. Dougie and his bunch found me but instead of fists, I pulled out the knife and opened it up. I fully intended to kill Dougie and anyone else I could get my hands on. Suddenly it wasn't so much fun when they realized that I wasn't just showing the knife to scare them. I cut Dougie's forearm pretty good but not as bad as I would've liked. They decided to run away. I don't know what he told his parents about his arm but I never got in trouble for it.

I carried that knife with me all that year. Dougie and his friends didn't mess with me anymore. If they had then I would've killed them or at least tried my best to do so.

I grew up and became a pretty large guy. But my size isn't why I think people don't try to take advantage of me by intimidation. I think its the fact that I am not afraid of anyone or anything. That isn't to say I can't get my ass kicked. I'm just saying nobody scares me and niether does taking a beating. You may whip me but you are not getting out of it unscarred. People instinctively pick up on who are the predators and who are the prey. I think of it like dog psychology. If you present confidence and strength, you get submission. If you present weakness and fear along with indecision then you get back aggression. I'm almost always the alpha.

Never. I was always the baddest, biggest, and toughest cat at any school I ever attended.

Cut you "BS" remarks and I will....I have posted on Bucknuts and this board since 2007, over or near about 5000 posts and never has one of my posts been called BS You might want to consider that wiht others as you take your 255 posts down the road....

Not only am I well endowed, but I can pee further and with more accuracy than any of you!

The Bucknuts board started a few years ago and switched over to 247 later(2-3 years)..they did not carry over the post totals, but started anew............and I really don't care what you may think osubuck3, but on this board, no one needs to be told his post is BS, even if you believe that or not....its not what is done here...you have the right to your opinion you might want to express it more congenial maybe next time...its an insult to tell some one they are "embellishing" their post or accounts....I don't get angry.......I have gotten even before.........lets let this go......not going anywhere profitable....

I think everyone has been bullied in some fashion. Just the way the world is. I just cannot see taking a permanent solution (suicide) to a temporary problem (bullying). I was taught to deal with it in some way by my parents... either fight or turn the other cheek. I was small and skiny, but same as everyone else... you throw down and win or lose you get left alone because you are not an easy target. Switching schools is brutual because you have to do it all over most of the time. Got to HS and sports really mattered and bullying took a slight backseat, so even though I was still small I gained some respect of teammates and it spread.

Too much PC these days and it forces kids to take it until they snap and bring a gun to school. Expelling a kid for defending himself causes the problem the media sees these days IMHO (if going to get expelled, might as well go out with a bang thought process). Also, everyone being told they are winners all the time cannot help once the real world starts to take effect and they have no experience in losing or being uncool.

I have no doubt that this is how you remember this happening, but over 60 years the details may be a bit foggy and maybe you hollywooded it up a bit. I beat up a bully too, but I just closed my eyes and started windmilling and he went down like the coward he was. I am sure when I tell the story to my friends I make it sound a little better.