Did you tease as a child?

[Stephen!]

I had comments for weird reasons. Like, there was a guy in science class in year 9 that was making comments over lack of pubic hair (This was from showering in locker rooms after PE classes) Kinda ridiculous really since it's not like it's uncommon to lack body hair at 14.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

I had comments for weird reasons. Like, there was a guy in science class in year 9 that was making comments over lack of pubic hair (This was from showering in locker rooms after PE classes) Kinda ridiculous really since it's not like it's uncommon to lack body hair at 14.

Ah, but the entire point is simply to hurt someone. There's no logic behind much of it. During my schooling, I was the favourite target for bullying. Now, for a long time the trend was that having facial hair (if you were a boy, of course) was great. Those in senior years who were still smooth were quietly mocked for it. Then I was practically the first boy in my year to develop facial hair. Guess what the trend was then? Mock those who develop facial hair . Naturally, of course, that phase didn't last too long because it makes no damn sense however you look at it . It's as if they forgot all the boys would get facial hair eventually. But that's the point- logic doesn't matter. The "reasons" for "teasing", as we're calling it, are just excuses. They simply want to hurt someone, and they will find a way to do it.

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

I'm getting the distinct whiff of a certain Billy Bullshit Esq. from some of the stories being told here.

I don't think my stories sounded implausible at all, if you're referring to me. All that shit really happened. I tied someone's shoelaces together while he was outside wearing another pair of shoes and poured rotten milk all over his bed. I had gone to the cafeteria and gotten a couple little individual cartons of milk and let them sit outside all day. Is that really outside the realm of possibility? That's how we did things in the '80s!

 

[K'Ehleyr]

I'm getting the distinct whiff of a certain Billy Bullshit Esq. from some of the stories being told here.

I don't think my stories sounded implausible at all, if you're referring to me. All that shit really happened. I tied someone's shoelaces together while he was outside wearing another pair of shoes and poured rotten milk all over his bed. I had gone to the cafeteria and gotten a couple little individual cartons of milk and let them sit outside all day. Is that really outside the realm of possibility? That's how we did things in the '80s!

Maybe he's just teasing us? And with a name like his aren't you scared?

 

[Jim Steele]

I'm getting the distinct whiff of a certain Billy Bullshit Esq. from some of the stories being told here.

I don't think my stories sounded implausible at all, if you're referring to me. All that shit really happened. I tied someone's shoelaces together while he was outside wearing another pair of shoes and poured rotten milk all over his bed. I had gone to the cafeteria and gotten a couple little individual cartons of milk and let them sit outside all day. Is that really outside the realm of possibility? That's how we did things in the '80s!

Aside from the fact that it sounds like a montage from a John Hughes flick, no. I was referring more to some of the tales of retribution in the form of courageously thrown fists and bullies witrh tails between their legs, things that sound like retconned fantasies that serve as better endings than, y'know, "he bullied me for another 2 terms, it finally ended when I went to college".

 

[Danoz]

I personally didn't tease... though I did get teased a lot.

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

I'm getting the distinct whiff of a certain Billy Bullshit Esq. from some of the stories being told here.

I don't think my stories sounded implausible at all, if you're referring to me. All that shit really happened. I tied someone's shoelaces together while he was outside wearing another pair of shoes and poured rotten milk all over his bed. I had gone to the cafeteria and gotten a couple little individual cartons of milk and let them sit outside all day. Is that really outside the realm of possibility? That's how we did things in the '80s!

Aside from the fact that it sounds like a montage from a John Hughes flick, no. I was referring more to some of the tales of retribution in the form of courageously thrown fists and bullies witrh tails between their legs, things that sound like retconned fantasies that serve as better endings than, y'know, "he bullied me for another 2 terms, it finally ended when I went to college".

I tried to punch the kid I wrote the death threat to, but he just dodged it and I just gave them more ammo to use against me. Ah, what a horrible day that was.

 

[An Officer]

I had a highly developed sense of justice as a child so I never teased/picked on anybody... and I never allowed myself to be teased either. After a couple of big fights, most kids understood it's not worth it if I'm going to take it to the very ninth degree. I had a relatively peaceful school life in general.

 

[Kira Nerys]

I was teased and taunted as a child and bluntly discriminated as an adult .I have a learning disability and visual problems ,people always said to my face retard, dumb $^^&&%,some times even by members of my own family .So it hasn't been easy overcoming my anger .Having it said to by coworkers is one thing,family is different.I never teased it was bad enough ,done to me .

 

[Sakrysta]

Aside from junior high, which kind of stunk because it was junior high, and kids are stupid and heartless at that age, I never really had much trouble in school. It would never have occurred to me to bully anyone.

Funny, when I read the thread title, I didn't think of the negative connotation of "tease." To me, that word has the positive connotation of friendly back-and-forth. Weird how words make nests in your mind.

 

[NileQT87]

I was an easy target and got bullied to the point that I had literally started hiding in my room and isolating myself by the time I was 14 (I spent lunches in middle school hiding in the library).

I actually went to rehab because of my anti-social isolation (I also have Asperger's Syndrome) and spent 10 months getting abused at Casa by the Sea in Mexico (it got shut down by the federalis for a reason) because I had gotten my self-esteem so completely destroyed. I was a complete basket-case. I just cried at everything and didn't even know how to hold a two-sided conversation (a big Aspie trait).

I got teased for things like being spoiled because my parents took me traveling all over the world and just having stuff. I also got teased because I started showing really strong examples of my obsessive behavior on certain topics (this is the most famous thing about Asperger's). My parents would just compound the situation by constantly going into the front office and trying to stop the bullying, and it would just get worse. I was an easy target because I was naive, sheltered and cried easily.

 

[Cakes488]

Well I was definitely not an angel and did my share of "making fun" but I never tormented anybody or was a bully. There were a few incidences that I can admit I went too far...but there were only a few.

All I can say is thank the good lord I was well liked by everybody. I can't imagine what the poor kids who were verbal punching bags really went through.

The girls in high school are the worst...I did my best to distance myself from all that girl gossip bullshit because it was a trap.

I feel bad that the people who were bullied carry emotional scars from high school...at what point do you start healing and letting go? Maybe even forgiving (?)

 

[Emher]

^I can only speak for myself but in my case it's taken a LONG time. Basically I was cheated out of a lot of social development because of all this and it's been a long road. I think I only really started recovering a few years ago, nearly ten years after everything happened. It gets easier but it's a way still.

As for forgiving, I don't think I'll ever be there.

 

[Alpha Romeo]

When I was a girl I was teased by other children, mainly because I had a speech problem. As a result I could never hurt another child by teasing them not even my little brother.

I remember one girl at school who was very popular but never teased anyone. She was just a very kind-hearted girl (sadly she died when she was 11).

I know a lot of people here were bullied and tease but I am wondering if any one will admit that they sometimes, or even often, teased other children.

Maliciously teased and breaking balls are two different things. Teasing someone for a speech issue is malicious and wrong. Never did that? Break balls, absolutely....still do.

 

[Cakes488]

^I can only speak for myself but in my case it's taken a LONG time. Basically I was cheated out of a lot of social development because of all this and it's been a long road. I think I only really started recovering a few years ago, nearly ten years after everything happened. It gets easier but it's a way still.

As for forgiving, I don't think I'll ever be there.

Well I can't pretend to know what you went through or what you are going through now...but you must heal and you must get over it somehow. You are still letting these high school losers win. I understand that forgiving is more for you and not for the benefit of the tormentors...but again I can't say if it really works because if you seriously fuck me over I don't forgive either...that's probably a bad thing for both of us to be doing.

 

[Emher]

^What kinds tickles me a bit is what finally got me to start making real changes was when I got betrayed (hard) by someone close to me and I decided that I wanted to change. It's not that I'm not trying, I am. But it's har dto change a behaviour that I've had for most of the life I can remember.

And I'm past the point where I'd beat one of the assholes of yor to a pulp if I saw them, but I'm not sure I'd be the bigger man if I got an oppurtunity to make them suffer in some way. I'll try and keep it to the most Evil Death Glare (TM) ever presented if I ever run across them though.