I can't say when I was first bullied, but it was huge part of my life as a kid and then came home to a dad who belittled me (he let me eat what I wanted, but then teased me about my weight and that I was out of shape and he also teased me about how I was "overly emotional").
I read an article...last year I think...about a new brand of bullies--girls who are the most popular and have everything, etc. And it was a WTF? moment for me since I'd been bullied by those types of girls in my childhood and was wondering when they were new.
And teachers and councilors who tell bullied students "it's going to be okay"...I hated each and every one of them because that doesn't solve anything and never made things better.
I have to say though that I am one of those people who doesn't think about how other people are different. I never think of describing someone as "the gay person" or "that black person". Even when I'm writing, I never use those descriptors because I don't think of people like that. And usually when I'm meeting new people, I don't think about or take in what makes them different from me; I wonder how much we'll have in common.
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I read an article...last year I think...about a new brand of bullies--girls who are the most popular and have everything, etc. And it was a WTF? moment for me since I'd been bullied by those types of girls in my childhood and was wondering when they were new.
And teachers and councilors who tell bullied students "it's going to be okay"...I hated each and every one of them because that doesn't solve anything and never made things better.
I have to say though that I am one of those people who doesn't think about how other people are different. I never think of describing someone as "the gay person" or "that black person". Even when I'm writing, I never use those descriptors because I don't think of people like that. And usually when I'm meeting new people, I don't think about or take in what makes them different from me; I wonder how much we'll have in common.