Has anyone ever stood up for you when being bullied?

Yes, a few times. A neighborhood mom once unwittingly picked me up after some kids in the projects were throwing stones at me. Another time, a kid from the same project came into our neighborhood and started trouble with me. The neighborhood kids attacked him. Can't say it happened every time, but it did happen a few times and I was lucky. For the most part, other people don't get involved and I can't say I blame them. I think my biggest fear was it was going to happen when a friend was with me and they would get hurt too. For that reason, I went out by myself a lot.

You know, 80% of kids never get into a fight, on the other hand, if you are handicapped there is a 65% chance someone will target you violently in some way, at some point in your life. You have a better chance of winning at blackjack in a casino than going through life without some violent incident, sadly.
 
needsleep said:
Not that at all! I'm just reacting to her bullcrap and highlighting what I'm reacting to so there was no confusion about what I was reacting to...but there seems to have been some confusion anyway. Sorry for that and the bold letter issue. I'm just saying that that woman is ridiculous to get pissed off at you.
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OK , I got you now . now I just tell people I do not know where the street is as I know some people will not understand my speech . It is easier to just say "Sorry I can't help you" than to deal with some people.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
OK , I got you now . now I just tell people I do not know where the street is as I know some people will not understand my speech . It is easier to just say "Sorry I can't help you" than to deal with some people.
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Definitely. Some people are just idiots. x_X
 
VacationGuy234 said:
Yes, a few times. A neighborhood mom once unwittingly picked me up after some kids in the projects were throwing stones at me. Another time, a kid from the same project came into our neighborhood and started trouble with me. The neighborhood kids attacked him. Can't say it happened every time, but it did happen a few times and I was lucky. For the most part, other people don't get involved and I can't say I blame them. I think my biggest fear was it was going to happen when a friend was with me and they would get hurt too. For that reason, I went out by myself a lot.

You know, 80% of kids never get into a fight, on the other hand, if you are handicapped there is a 65% chance someone will target you violently in some way, at some point in your life. You have a better chance of winning at blackjack in a casino than going through life without some violent incident, sadly.
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I know that handicapped kids are at much higher risk of bein sexual abuse than non-handicapped kids. :(

I may wear my hearin aid in public but dont fuck with me is my attitude. Ill bite yo nose off. :lol:
 
In grade school a larger, older kid pinned me to the wall and I couldn't move. By instinct, I kneed him and he went down. Somehow I managed to stay away from him. I would walk home from grade school, and sometimes bullies would chase me on my route home. Somehow I always evaded them by jumping over fences and stuff.

In junior high and high school I was left alone physically, at least. Probably because I had a paper route and I was lean and muscular.

I don't remember anyone standing up for me.
 
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I remember one year (at one of the many mainstreamed schools I attended) being teased relentlessly by a group of 'mean girls'. There was another girl in the class whom I discovered also wore hearing aids (yes I wore aids then), but she shied from being my friend and kept her distance from me out of fear of the 'mean girls' I suppose. No one stood up for me either.
 
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I dislike violence, but it is necessary to use at times. It changes you as a person and you can't really explain that to people who don't live those types of lives. Other people are not going to understand why victims of abuse act the way they do because they haven't lived it. It's just a totally different world from normal. Something as simple as going to the library to get a book isn't perceived the same way and they don't see it.

In some ways we are better off because we are more street wise, but that comes with a price.

The character Lisbeth Salander in, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, is smart because she has to be.
 
I was bullied when I was in junior high. No one stood up for me because of the school's suspension policy. Everyone involved in an incident (victim or not) are suspended from school (could be a day to a week) if the incident is reported.

I had a bully that picked on me daily. He would just walk up and punch me on my arm for no reason. It got so bad that I had knots in my arm. I tried reporting him to the principal, but the principal said that I would be suspended if I went through with it.

My little brother was suspended from school for several days because he was a victim. He was minding his own business at lunch and some guy jumped him beating the crap out of him. Everyone witnessed it and knew what went on. No matter how many people said they saw my brother doing nothing and the other guy doing all the beating, the principal suspended both kids. My dad had to go to school and argue with the principal about it. They dropped the suspension, but it still goes to show what schools would do these days.

That's why bullying is a serious problem and a lot of bullies get away with it because they know the system and can't be reported. A lot of them don't even care if they're suspended and they know that by bullying someone else and get reported, that someone else is suspended as well.
 
VamPyroX said:
I was bullied when I was in junior high. No one stood up for me because of the school's suspension policy. Everyone involved in an incident (victim or not) are suspended from school (could be a day to a week) if the incident is reported.

I had a bully that picked on me daily. He would just walk up and punch me on my arm for no reason. It got so bad that I had knots in my arm. I tried reporting him to the principal, but the principal said that I would be suspended if I went through with it.

My little brother was suspended from school for several days because he was a victim. He was minding his own business at lunch and some guy jumped him beating the crap out of him. Everyone witnessed it and knew what went on. No matter how many people said they saw my brother doing nothing and the other guy doing all the beating, the principal suspended both kids. My dad had to go to school and argue with the principal about it. They dropped the suspension, but it still goes to show what schools would do these days.

That's why bullying is a serious problem and a lot of bullies get away with it because they know the system and can't be reported. A lot of them don't even care if they're suspended and they know that by bullying someone else and get reported, that someone else is suspended as well.
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I've heard of this policy and I don't understand it.

In my view self-defense is a right. Someone smacks you, you have the right to smack them right back in self-defense. The instigator is the one who is wrong and suffers the consequences, not the victim.

I don't understand this policy at all. Why would the school do something as stupid as this?
 
horribles not good bully serious!, junior high is reason bully for me bugging to me not good, terribles swearing to annoy me!!! I am tried to stop it I said enough it about... didn't listen to boy stubbon. not listen to bother me, I told principle or interpreter, I believe, I am tried many people problem on complaint.
seems consequence pretty junior high serious bully, blame to people! screw up, they pissed me!! look likes upset bully aggressive and swearing, don't like me. not listen to regret, I report principle, I tried to explain to prinicple, I was punch rare boy!....

I also last time boy bully me threaten me slap and shoving to me.. I call on man fight to boy. man shoving to boy, man abusing to almost to bully. fear , my friends mom walk my mom I am shocked!!

I am scared panic also ruin bully, I am not accept, man slapped me chubby, My father witness mad aggressive, report police that is awful!
bully not good!

people insult to aggressive not pleasure.. I report principle and interpreter also,

I can't remember
 
In my fifth and 6th grade, I had a few friends actually stood up for me. After, it was not much... I had to learn how to stand up for myself.
 
Steinhauer said:
It is those "nameless" people ... the ones we can't remember their name, the stranger we accidentally met ...
The ones who stood up for us. What should we call them? There should be a word for them, and it should be an honorable word :hmm:
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Angels.
 
Angel1989 said:
I took my 80 year old mom shopping the other day. When we were entering the grocery store there was someone selling or promoting something at the door. I had gone a little ahead to get a cart and apparently this person had asked me a question, which I missed. I guess they had a few choice words for me and not realizing my mom was with me said them as she was approachng. My dear sweet mom in her Irish brog said "she is deaf you big arse". That I heard and I haven't laughed that hard in years!!!
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Éirinn go brách!
 
DeafBadger said:
I've heard of this policy and I don't understand it.

In my view self-defense is a right. Someone smacks you, you have the right to smack them right back in self-defense. The instigator is the one who is wrong and suffers the consequences, not the victim.

I don't understand this policy at all. Why would the school do something as stupid as this?
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They probably don't want to take sides and find it easier to just suspend both.

I hate the policy myself.

Even today, that policy is still in effect. That's why we're seeing all of these news on bullying... because the bully knows they usually get away with it when the victim can't rat them out.
 
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