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Were you a bully when you were a kid?

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Nope, always hated them, though. Still do. Bullies often grow up to become one, marry another, then bring more into the world. Pathetic.
 
I was only a bully in 3rd grade. I used to make fun of some girl who always had allergy problems, and some other kid because his first name sound weird. I wasn't the physical kinda bully, and I didn't do it by myself. I mostly was the "go with the crowd" kinda bully. I'd join in with a group that started it, but I never started it myself. I guess I wouldn't necessarily call myself a bully, since most kids that age make fun of silly things like a weird name all the time.

After 3rd grade, I stopped doing that stuff. I got older, wiser, and learned from my mistakes. I found out that it doesn't feel good to be made fun of, and it's not good to make fun of others.
 
I trolled other kids because I needed to be laughing for most of the day.

But I stood up for kids that would get bullied by total assholes.
 
Nope.

As a former prefect, fucking them (bullies) over on a daily basis was the highlight of my otherwise dull, dreary and monotonous school day. The best part was that it was unofficially sanctioned by the school authorities as an acceptable response when dealing with bullies in action. The weak and the powerless were never neglected, and never left wanting for anything due to this "policy".

Ah, the good ol' days, before litigation started cropping up and corporal punishment, like caning was still acceptable in schools. In public too!
 
I was a pretty vicious bully (rather not go into details) until the second half of middle school. Then I just stuck to my friends and spent most of my time in school making up sleep I wasn't getting at night.
 
Man fuck bullies.

They can all say "sorry" and feel bad about it afterwards but their victims can be scarred or impacted for life.

They're amongst the worst kind of people in my book.
 
I was bullied. I ended up doing bullying things to get back though....like stealing assignments from the person that bothered me. I remember taking my bullie's final project from the teachers mailbox and burning it back at my home just to fuck him up.

Another time i took his back pack while we were at lunch and threw it over the fence. Another time I bumped into him on purpose to mess up his sandwich. I ran like never before just so he would follow me to an isolated place where I thought I could beat him up.
Of course I failed miserably. I didnt think that one through
 
I once threw my ex girlfriend's radio into the sand on the beach and it broke. Then this pencil necked geek from New Jersey stood up for her and I took him down with a couple of kicks and sweet karate moves.

That's bastard got me back in the local karate tournament though with some bullshit flying kick. He must have learned it from some wise old janitor. That smug jerk.
 
No, but I did have a fist fight with a girl on a bouncy castle once.

To be fair, she started it and was a few years older than me.
 
Looking back on elementary school, I never consciously bullied anybody, but I can definitely recall a few times where "playing around" went too far with people I hung out with. I think, at that age, a lot of kids don't have a developed sense of empathy and they just act like total shitheels every once in a while. I really regret it.

Once I got to middle school, I had a couple years of on-and-off bullying by a handful of kids. It never got as bad as I'm sure some folks had it, but I got beat up here and there. The problem with me was that I just never had the rage to continue fighting back. Once a fight would start, I'd just lose the heart to hit the other guy back. Not exactly a great strategy. :/

After leaving middle school, I was never bullied, and it's hard for me to even remember seeing bullying in high school. I'm sure it happened, but it was a magnet school and most kids were pretty harmless.

Anyway, it wasn't a great experience, but it taught me a great lesson in empathy, and I think I'm a better, more considerate person for it.
 
xtrasauce said:
Even in its cruelest form, bullying is almost always done "in a joking way" from the perspective of the bully. Not saying what you did was horrible, I don't know the specifics.
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I mean the stuff I did wasn't nice (hiding people's backpacks or hats, passing them the ball way too much in basketball because they were horrible and it was amusing to see what they'd do, etc). I never like hit any of them or stole their lunch money.

One of the kids I kind of bullied was in my weight lifting class and was super weak so I would make him to ridiculous workouts with me and he eventually got used to it and is completely ripped now and could kick my ass lol
 
I was bullied. People didn't care. Thankfully I kinda got better afterwards, but I sometimes have nightmares or get depressed because of those years.

Still can't believe other kids thought it was right. Fucking hell.

Lambda Piscium said:
yes.

no regrets, what's done is done.
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Lambda Piscium said:
eat or get eaten, man.
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People like you got me to a suicidal point in my life. Thanks for your help.
 
I was absolutely a bully. Also, I was a scumbag vandal that was responsible for well over $30,000 in damage before the time I graduated 8th grade.

I am very ashamed of the things I've done. But I wouldn't be who I am today had I not done all of it, so I don't necessarily regret it. I just always greet people with a smile and try to be as nice as possible nowadays.

I still owe a few people a very personal apology.
 
It's definitely not something I'm proud of, but I used to bully a mentally-challenged kid. It's not like I was some hardcore cool kid myself, so I guess I did it because I thought it would make me look cool and he was an easy target for slinging lame verbal insults at. What's even worse is that I actually used to be his friend, so to have one of his few good friends turn against him must have crushed him. I still feel bad about it to this day.
 
I was on both sides of that really. I would consider myself an asshole to people who I see as bullies or just annoying or dumb people, but I was bullied in middle school. I would even cry some nights because I wouldn't want to go back the next day and have to get pushed and made fun of. I'm still a pretty pissed off person. It's kind of hardened me to people really. Played a big part in who I am today.
 
Nah I was bullied.

Ducked tap to the Gym Bench, girls made fun of me all the time and people fucked with me though.

Honestly I don't really blame them though. I was fat, ugly and smelled a good amount of time. I was also an asshole because after a while I stopped caring. Then I got older and grew my hair out, wore a trench coat and glared at everyone, and this was shortly after Kip Kinkle shooting, so people though I was going to go a on a murder rampage and they left me alone.
 
Daingurse said:
You have no remorse for your actions? I wouldn't do the things I did as a young kid again, if such a thing were possible.
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i already went into detail about my particular situation. not proud but don't regret it either, did what i had to do.

if i went back in time to the same situation? i'd do the same thing i did again.
 
Where I'm from you have to be tough, but I wasn't a bully from the standpoint of picking on the weak for ego/entertainment...
but was from the standpoint of living in "survival of the fittest land".
 
Lambda Piscium said:
i went to a school where kids had knifes in their backpacks for protection and refused to leave till a police car stopped at the gate.

a teacher slapped a student for crude remarks and got shot by the kid's dad (didn't die).

if you're 13 and you want to be "assertive without trampling on the needs" of a bunch of 18 year old kids who fail to pass classes, hang around doing nothing and rob ATM machines during night time be my guest.

i'm not telling people to bully. i have a 9 year old girl who doesn't bully. but i'm my personal experience i had to mark some territory, let everyone know i'd strike first if needed.
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I really didn't mean to come across as judging you earlier (and clarified as much). It sounds like you went through a lot when you were young.

Sometimes bullies are just bullies, but usually there are underlying roots to their behavior--eliminate inequality, poverty and domestic abuse and I bet we'd go a long way towards solving bullying, too.
 
TruePrime said:
Nah I was bullied.

Ducked tap to the Gym Bench, girls made fun of me all the time and people fucked with me though.

Honestly I don't really blame them though. I was fat, ugly and smelled a good amount of time. I was also an asshole because after a while I stopped caring. Then I got older and grew my hair out, wore a trench coat and glared at everyone, and this was shortly after Kip Kinkle shooting, so people though I was going to go a on a murder rampage and they left me alone.
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It sounds like the guys who bullied you were jock assholes.
Sorry dude.
 
Lambda Piscium said:
i already went into detail about my particular situation. not proud but don't regret it either, did what i had to do.

if i went back in time to the same situation? i'd do the same thing i did again.
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I see. Well I'm not going to act like I can relate to your life, because I can't. I'm not here to judge or shame. I mostly ask, for the sake of my own curiosity.
 
I was until I learned how to fight and could take satisfaction in not having to prove it.

Before I knew how to fight, it was all I wanted to do.
 
Nyanko said:
I really didn't mean to come across as judging you earlier. It sounds like you went through a lot when you were young.
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the neighbourhood i grew up here in Portugal only shows up on the news for 2 reasons:

- the police dismantled a violent criminal gang based there
- a riot happened and people burned cars and thrash bins all over the streets

the school was right in the center of what we called the "warzone".
 
I think its all just kids being kids

In my final year of high school the people in my year level who used to be bullies at this point had grown up and didn't do it anymore.
 
I got bullied as a kid. Multiple times, but my first one and the one I remember the most was this kid.

I remember it clearly (kind of lol), it was this kid named Andrew, and it was throughout 4-5th Grade (he was held back twice; in the Florida education system LOL). He was tall compared to us at the time (by 7th grade I was taller than him), light skinned, and was one of those people who always looked mad even when smiling (kind of like Ice Cube).

He got into a lot of fights, and usually spent a lot of his time in the boys restroom nearest to our class.. awaiting his prey. At least.. when he wasn't suspended. He used to just punch us hard as fuck for no reason, because he was bigger than me and my friend.. so I wasn't gonna fight his ass. That shit hurt too. But one day, he took my bookbag and just went through my shit. He saw a Frieza picture that I drew, and thought it was the greatest thing ever. Around this time, me and my friends drew the shit out of DBZ (and Sonic lol).

So he asked us to draw him the same picture, at first I thought, "Lol, what kind of loser wants a Frieza pic?" But if it meant he'd leave us the fuck alone, then screw it. Every time I saw him, I had a different DBZ character to offer. Everything was awesome, and there was an inkling of hope that a friendship could from.. Until he wanted me to draw Bulma nude, which I said no to because I was a good young Christian boy back then. And I don't think I knew what sex was till like middle school- at least that's how I recall it. Anyway, that sort of hit the reset button, and he went back to physically abusing us. From then on, we would just avoid him, and hide in plain sight when we saw him. He kept asking for that pic too.

We ended going to middle school with him, where I think he ended up getting expelled for throwing a desk at a teacher or punching him or her. I can't remember exactly what happened to him.
 
I was homeschooled, so I wasn't around other kids that much. I was really short, though, and whenever I was around other kids, they'd try to make fun of me for being shorter than them and socially awkward (Not being around other kids makes it hard to know how to act.) My natural response was to just be a bigger asshole to them and earn their respect, somehow it worked since kids are stupid, and I eventually just started immediately being a huge jerk to everyone I met for a few years. It wore off when I was around 15 and I started being around people more. Still, I could easily have seen myself being a huge bully if I was in school because I was always better at insulting the other kids. I wasn't smarter or stronger, I was just better at being an asshole and doing mildly malicious things.
 
I can recall doing some really mean things as a child, but I don't think I was a bully in the sense of ongoing harassment directed at someone. Once they cried/ got upset, I felt bad and tried to make amends and avoided being an ass to them in the future. I do remember there was a brief period of about a month in grade 4 where I went through an anti-authority stage, where I was a complete brat towards my parents and teachers. After that, I realised that's a really shitty way to behave and became a goody two-shoes after that. I still don't know why I went through that brief phase.
 
I was an asshole through ages 10-13, but there was only one kid that I kind of bullied. He was about half my age and went to my church. He always used to hang around my friends and I. We would lightly tease him and try to scare him the way you would do to a little brother. But sometimes when it was just me and him alone, I would take it a bit further. I never physically hurt him, but I remember getting pretty rough and trying to make him really him panic once. Of course I feel horrible about all of this now.

Fast forward to a few years ago, my family and I bumped into him and his brothers for the first time in about 10 years. As we were going through all the "Wow, you guys are so grown up now!" type of talk, his eyes fixated on me. His mouth hung open slightly and his face bore an expression of what looked to me like mild horror, as if all the terrible memories of me tormenting him that were once forgotten started rushing back to his mind. That's how I interpreted it, anyway. For all I know that may just be the way his face looks.
 
I wasn't a bully. But I was a total dick to one of my best friends because of another friend, and thinking back on that, it really makes me wonder if I was anything less than a bully to him.

On the bright side, we became really good friends in high school, so it worked out in the end.
 
Not a bully nor bullied. Although once I spontaneously tripped a kid running in front of me hard, just to make my friends laugh. After all those years I still feel horrible about it and wish I could apologize to him.
 
I was... but not on a regular basis, and not targeting specific people.

I just wanted to show the other kids that I shouldn't be fucked with I guess - which from time to time would lead to me getting into a fight. A lot of it was reactionary - other kids would give me a go as well.

Plus school was just a really boring place a lot of the time back then, so sometimes you'd fuck with people for the hell of it.

In retrospect, I would've made a lot more of school with a different tact, a different approach. But I wasn't wise enough to do that then. It's part of growing up.
 
I became a bully on high school, after being bullied and destroyed before that period. Not in a physical way, but saying things that hurt more than a knife. I was an asshole and hated everyone because I felt like my entire childhood and adolescence was ruined and wanted to believe I was better than anyone. Fortunately I stopped doing that before high school ended, but that made me not have any real friends until now that I'm at uni.
 
Yes, I was a straight up sociopath as a kid. I remember I saw some kid running once towards and I tripped him up and he face planted into it. Made some other kid clean shit off of my show with leaves. Fighting everyday etc. Never had any specific targets though. And I used to do other random criminal shit like break into cars / start fires etc. Went to court for theft. I was at an all boys school so it was dog eat dog, but I was just an asshole.

Stayed in school though, straight A student so they decided against putting me in juvenile detention. Came out on the other side with no criminal record.

I still have a tendency to slip into manipulative behaviour sometimes but I think I'm mostly reformed.
 
Yep and tbh I would have made fun of myself too. Altho the guys that used to make fun of me are rly ugly now but I'm too lazy to make fun of them and their ugly wives and babies.
 
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