Back in school, did you get bullied? :D

[algenpfleger]

Just to prove my theory. I think that most kids who later grew up to be artists didn't exactly have the easiest time when they were in school, and that's why they got all, like artsy and awesome and stuff :D What about you?

[Justin.]

It has no relevance... I had alot of friends who got bullied that hate art, and likewise a bunch of artists who were never bullied.

[Mon Chat]

I got a fair bit of stick from the more stupid of the people at school...

But no, generally I've just always done art, not particularly in reaction to anything, other than I like to.

[corky13]

hmmm...yeah got bullied for a few years and went into a lot of small fights. But the last years were pretty nice and i found lots of friends. But i don`t started with art because of the bulliing...i drew before that. It has more to do that I was the glasses wearing nerd...

[Rist]

I was bullied once or twice but nothing to pin my self down as a victim. In fact at times I was the bully due to who I was hanging with.

Most bullies would steer clear of me because I was tall and broad, about 6ft back then, aways the tall kid. Even when I stood up to the supposed toughest kid in our year, all he did was "okay, meet me in -insert location-", he did not hit me there and then and niether did he take up on his offer afterwords.

I have to admit, some bullying did go on through primary school (aged 5 - 11). But then again when I was that age my home village was 'rough'.

Good times I hardly care to think of.

[algenpfleger]

Cool, and interesting :D I didn't really expect anything different.

Same goes with me, I didn't have too much friends but even if I got into fights that wasn't what made me pick up art.

[Jabo]

Nope, not really. Well, got in some trouble with a guy who was rather difficult at the time, but we turned best friends some time after, funny enough. The other, real bullies didn't care about me because I was pretty good at being invisible.

Also, stop making up theories about what artists are and how they became artists and how they couldn't be artists if some things in life didn't happen. Just do it.

[bhanu]

wasnt the most popluar kid in class but didnt get bullied either, but I gotta say I had some angry teachers cuz I always used to draw in the book and notebooks, answersheets...

[Justice Von Brandt]

No, but I am anti-social you could say, so not doing much or going anywheres with people gave me time to draw.

[Christian223]

When i was a child i was pretty "popular" funny little kid, and i really loved to do artsy things, drawing included, after that i stoped beign funny and popular and slowly i stoped beign so artsy, until just 2 years ago when i started to study how to draw. I think we like art stuff becase we find something in it that pleases us, thats why we do it, i have no idea actually :).

[AsaB]

I wasn't bullied, but I was always the shy girl and spent most of my time either studying for school or drawing. I wouldn't say I'm shy anymore, but I'm not extroverted either, I still prefer spending a lot of time on my own. Mainly drawing, of course!

[FLenG]

i was adored. Bullied because of creativeness? I don't see the point.

[dark eagle]

first i need to know what you mean by bullying.

Heres mine.

If you call someone concord because they have a long nose thats teasing. But once you use that long nose to open up a yogurt pot that becomes bullying.

[J Wilson]

Eh, 9 kids out of 10 could say they experienced some form of bullying or teasing, and no kid thinks he had it great growing up. Childhood is tough through that age, and I actually blame it on the fact that kids are mostly spending time with other kids, and ALL of them are immature and awkward and messed up in one way or another. It's unnatural, because kids are meant to be surrounded by adults to teach them societies norms and expectations.

Anyways, I think a better question is "What do you think is what started you drawing?"

My answer is besides a natural inclination towards it (creativity in the family), I also grew up in Maine where there wasn't a ton of other things to do. Early on we didn't have cable or video games (those were still pretty new in the late 70's early 80's) and so I drew to entertain myself. And read a ton, but a lot of drawing.

[Black Spot]

I went to 10 different schools in different countries. It wasn’t easy always being the ‘new’ kid but I coped by hanging out with the geeks and learning not to care. I was pretty happy in my own world.

[AdamGillespie]

I was never bullied. But I never did 'fit in' if thats what you mean.

[Mr.Delicious]

never got bullied, gots lots of the "can you draw me a naked girl?" comments though.

[enrigo]

How about some artsy bullies ? That would be a bizarre combination.

[Straight Edge Ryan]

Mainly in my younger days I got bullied. I've always been "the punk rock loser". Dressing differently put a big target on my head for the groups of jocks who felt the need to pick on kids half their size and 3 years younger than them. Going out with a mohawk and vest covered in patches was almost a guarantee I'd run into trouble from someone who didn't like my choice of clothes.

As I got older tho, the taunting stopped, and the "bullying" only ever happened behind my back. Many of the people who would pick on me would still describe themselves as "an all around nice guy that everyone likes". Tho I still get angry at the thought of why I was picked on, the entire experience has taught me a lot. I've learned about the hypocritical nature of people, gained insight into why people do things like that, I learned to stand up for myself, learned not to be ashamed of being myself, to stand up for kids who're being bullied when no one else will, to not judge a book by its cover, and to never be the type of person to pick on others for being different

Every cloud has a silver lining as they say

[Musselfarmstudios]

In high school I fell under the dark and brooding catagory (The Bruce Wayne, Clint Eastwood kind, not the Emo kind) and most bullies tended to shy away from me. I did have a good bit of friends from all over the spectrum.

If anything I would stop kids from being bullied and it also helped that I was into Mixed Martial Arts. I always hated it when people picked on others . . . especially those who were weak or different.

I figured if your going to draw figures fighting and stuff like that . . . you had to know how to do it yourself. Plus, if you place a 275 lb football player in an arm lock and drop him to the ground with out a single puch being thrown . . . you tend to get some respect!

[Naomi Ningishzidda]

yeah its why I dont like girls only old ladies (past 40) or really little girls younger than 14 - this is all egotistical though i can transcend it if I dont get into my ego

i hated highschool but all of the boys were nice to me so I grew up to love men

[Renegade89]

I have always been a loner, don´t think i was exactly bullied in a way of phisically messing with me, but i was rejected constantly, i had the same group of people during all gradeschool through highschool and i never fit in, i was pretty much an outcast.

I got picked on a few times when beginning middleschool i remember, but due to the simple fact that i never responded or really looked for trouble, or even reacted (just being unexpressive, like nothing happens) i was ignored. I would say is related to me being into drawing, i was never a dork, just a very serious guy who spent most of his time doing introspective kinds of things, like reading, studying or inventing something to pass the time, i learned to discover things by myself, to observe, to be able to be an individual with his own way if thinking and to read people beyond their expressions, hypocrites are everywhere.

[daestwen]

Yeah, I got picked on a lot, but it was because I moved around so I was perpetually the 'new' kid.

It stopped after I started to threaten to beat them up if they picked on me or my friends.

Highschool wasn't a problem - I went to an all girls school and just ignored the ones that were mean, and ended up making good friends.

[bhanu]

can you draw me a naked girl?"
FOr me thats how it all started

[Blue]

I was bullied once or twice but nothing to pin my self down as a victim.

Ditto. I was only hassled when I moved to a new town in grade school, where before that I was beating up bullies in my old home town and after grade school I stopped having problems all together.

I don't believe we become artistic because we are victimized.

[nickmarshallvfx]

Had a few minor incidents through school, but i think i got off pretty light compared to a lot of others. My main problem was that it was my supposed 'friends' that were the people that caused the vast majority of any suffering i had during school and college. They werent a good crowd, and had no ambitions, and i think were a bit jealous that i did, and was developing exactly the skills i needed to follow those ambitions.
The main thing they did was supress any urge to show creative flair. Luckily i found a great gal who inspired me and gave me the boost i needed to walk away and cut myself off from that group completely and follow my dreams.

We are still together now, and im studying for a BA in Visual Effects, and have a great group of mates now with similar interests and goals.

Ironically, i dont regret my past at all because it gave me a look at the darker side of life and there is nothing like it to keep me working hard and never end up back there. I dont think that what i went thru made me artistic as such, but it certainly feels good to be able to express myself now without fear.

Sorry, didnt mean to rant...

Nick

[Blackhawk]

I was bullied relentlessly in 4th, 5th, and 6th grade by two kids, until the 6th grade in which I snapped, got involved in a playground brawl, thankfully the teachers saw the other kids instigated, both were expelled, I was stuck in detention for awhile. But after that, never had an issue.

I wouldn't say being bullied made me artsy though. I don't view art as an anti-social, non-conformist thing at all. If anything, I view art as something that has expanded my horizons intellectually and socially, and if you were to ever meet me in person by the way I talk or look, you'd have no idea I paint pretty things for a living.

[Meister Jazz]

bullied in elementary school for a while until i made the kids bullying me stop. it wasn't be cause of my art though, it was because of my weight and because I was quiet.

i don't think that people turn to art because of being bullied, they turn to art, various forms, to express themselves. not everything can just be said, some things need to be displayed to be said.

I have always drawn, as long as i can remember i've had art supplies and would draw cartoons of whatever was in my head because it was fun.

[breistift]

Someone tried to bully me in 9th grade so I started bullying him in return. We became buddies after a while though.

[s.ketch]

Are you guys gay? I know some artists who are gay so I figured it applies to all of you. Just trying to prove a theory.

[Alex Chow]

I was bullied (nothing physical except for a couple of cases) because I look like a piece of shit. I am the ugliest kid on the block so it was just easy for immature kids (including myself) to pick on me. I do not think bullying caused me to turn into art. Actually, I'm pretty sure all bullying has done for me is to try to look better to no avail :geekg:

[Oni Rem]

i was never bullied cause i was lookin gangsta, wearing my favorite color-red. It's like don't fuck wid him or else...but i did get bullied though by my friends. He freakin verbal abuse me to draw for him a lot, I'm like damn foo makin me draw everydai and shit, but i can't do anything like hurt him cause i new him way back in da dayz and up until now. Later on i met some more friends who like to show off to me by acting/talkin tough and all, funny friends i got. this was all back in my freshmen year.

[AlexC]

I'm curious to know whether any of you think that you've evolved into a better (or worse) person as a result of harrassment or bullying. I haven't been bullied that much in high school, but I think I did learn some lessons about people as a result of a few incidents.

[algenpfleger]

Haha I did indeed start a stupid thread :D *slaps self*

But look, there's more "Yes" than I expected o_=

[daestwen]

Are you guys gay? I know some artists who are gay so I figured it applies to all of you. Just trying to prove a theory.

Yes? So what's your point? :P

[Mogster]

I wasnt so much as bullied as got into random fights for some random reason, stupid kid stuff, was pretty much friends with I kinda got on well with the bullies for some odd reason.

highschool I only got into 1 serius fight due to a guy i always had grudges with deuring primery school, who was also guy I fought with mostly...

[NoSeRider]

Oh come on, haven't you figured it out yet? Kids are sociopaths with
borderline narcissistic paranoid anxiety induced personality disorders
with a need to inflict their bizarro concepts of 'Lord of the Flies'
hierarchy onto one another.

Artists are just more aware of it. The rest of you are just blind.

Bust out a doobie and listen to Terence McKenna:
X33dGpScI84

If that doesn't explain anything to you, then watch
the video below:


pyVNlvzzSFA

[Formal]

Bullying is ... nothing !

Some guys tried to bully me when i was in elementary scholl but... it's all (they've learned to respect others, even if the person in question is smaller than you, he/she can still kick the hell out of you )

But, for the rest, i only met cool dudes artists and non-artists of course... after all , bullying is almost only a childs thing, it's the phase where you say ah ha, my father's strong than yours and then the other kid gets away screaming that this isn't true and crying (i love the picture, i gotta say xD)

[Saturns Gate]

Yeah I was one of the 'bigger' kids in school so it was destiny to get bullied really. I was quite timid back then too, so just took it and never really did much about it. Though I remember one day I lashed out at one of the guys and sent him flying into the wall..fun times. :D Its quite funny how they suck up to you after you leave school and see them in the pub, and a couple of those bully's are actually good friend's now. Argh, that's just growing up I suppose.

[tomwaits4noman]

I'm curious to know whether any of you think that you've evolved into a better (or worse) person as a result of harrassment or bullying. I haven't been bullied that much in high school, but I think I did learn some lessons about people as a result of a few incidents.

bullied by a teacher no less when I was 5 or 6 you know things are bad when a teacher looks at a class room and goes "oh that one should be fun to break"
and I was bullied for most of elementary school

To answer your question Alex I guess it depends on what level of bullying you have encountered, whether psychical or psychologically.... it depends on what the person is going to do with an essentially negative situation

it causes you to lose trust in other people, lose faith in yourself but hopefully you can turn it around and use it protect yourself and not be put in that situation again.

whether you can call the experience character building or not is very debatable

[Maidith]

Well... isn't there something between "yes" or "no"? xD

When I was in school (about grade 7-8 ) the one who got bullied most was my best friend, and I wish I had done more about it... like, beating up the bullies or something like that. But now that's over, and we both are still best friends, and have other friends as well.

My school was a regular one, and I'm a deaf kid who can't hear crap, so I never found access to the groups and cliques there. (I got along but as long as people don't have captions/subtitles IRL, there's no such thing as successful integration) I simply can't follow a conversation with more than 2 people, especially if it's in the usual loud school environment. So I mostly was the shy/arrogant/weird girl not talking much, and kept to myself, and hung around with just my best friend most of the time. While I didn't get bullied I was more like the weirdo, and people knew nothing about me actually. Just that I liked to draw and paint, because I did it all the time during class.

[Farvus]

Yes. Mainly in primary school.

[dark eagle]

Oh come on, haven't you figured it out yet? Kids are sociopaths with
borderline narcissistic paranoid anxiety induced personality disorders
with a need to inflict their bizarro concepts of 'Lord of the Flies'
hierarchy onto one another.

Artists are just more aware of it. The rest of you are just blind.

Bust out a doobie and listen to Terence McKenna:
X33dGpScI84

If that doesn't explain anything to you, then watch
the video below:


pyVNlvzzSFA

The lord of the flies stuff happens in one way or another but what your calling me a sociopath. I don't know what that mean but by the use of it the big bang theory means you think I'm some kind of very good lyer nd wants to kill everyone better then me and on a par. No I am not. But I am one of the best liers I know because I can lie to people without lying to myslef.

I know this one kid who just copies me in nearly everything I do. I drew checker pattern in my maths book, he copies
some random patter on my arm, he copies not that but casts of as his own idea/ 5th period someone saw mine and their like did na"*£a do that
I'm kinda good at science, all of a sudden he claims hes better than me even though I'm 4th in the school and he is a mere 20 something.
I wana be a concept artist, yeah and he doesn't even know what concept means after which he claims I can't even make an ok drawing.

Yeah I call that bullying because it made me angry and like I wana slap him round his big water melon shaped head.

Although I do agree with everything else there.

[Lastro]

Yep. From elementary school all the way through middle school. It wasn't because I was into art so much. They picked on me because I was horrible in English (my family had moved in from Korea and Korean was my first language), I was small, shy and wore big glasses. After I became decent in English, they picked on me for the last few reasons and the fact that I was close friends with a girl that wasn't at all pretty. I guess iI snapped after they picked on both of us, because I said something around the lines of them being egotistical idiots, then I told them to shut up. After that, they sort of stopped.

[Odayga]

Not bullied in a sense but treated extremely bad to the enth degree throughout high school...so glad I'm out of that hellhole.

[Elwell]

Not bullied in a sense but treated extremely bad to the enth degree throughout high school...so glad I'm out of that hellhole.
To be fair, you did get bullied around here a little. ;)
Not that you didn't deserve it. :P :hugsmile:

[Oden]

first i need to know what you mean by bullying.

Heres mine.

If you call someone concord because they have a long nose thats teasing.

no, that's called being a pointless douche, and if you call someone that every day for weeks, that's certainly bullying.



I was bullied a bit in junior high (grade 8-9), but that was a few years before I really discovered art.
Bullying certainly didn't get me into art...when I was in highschool, the biggest thing that catalysed my passion for painting was the girl(s), obviously. amirite, amirite?
I'm not saying it got me any, but I certainly tried. ;)

[Nibras]

No, i've never been bullied.....
Am still in highschool going into my 3rd year but neva been bullied all my life i just kind of get in with people i guess.
But woo bullying is crap, i know people who left school because of bullying and all it must really suck

[NoSeRider]

Of course most people have purposes that are strongly influenced by our connections and affections with others. Our relationships with others, and our love for them, give us most of the meaning in life. So if a sociopath doesn't have these things, what is left? What kind of purposes do they have? The answer is chilling: They want to win. Take away love and relationships and all you have left is winning the game, whatever the game is decided to be. If they are in business, it is becoming rich. If it is sibling rivalry, it is defeating the sibling. If it is a contest, the goal is to dominate. If a sociopath is the envious sort, winning would be making the other lose, or fail, or be frustrated, or embarrassed.

A sociopath's goal is to win. And he is willing to do anything at all to win. And sociopaths have nothing else to think about, so they can be very clever and conniving. Sociopaths are not busy being concerned with relationships or moral dilemmas or conflicting feelings, so they have much more time to think about clever ways to gain your trust and stab you in the back, and how do it without anyone knowing what's happening.

One of the questions above was about boredom. This is a real problem for sociopaths and they seem fanatically driven to prevent boredom. The reason it looms so large for them (and seems so strange to us) is that our relationships with people occupy a good amount of our time and attention. Take that away and all you have is "playing to win" which is rather shallow and empty in comparison. So boredom is a constant problem for sociopaths and they have an incessant urge to keep up a level of stimulation, even negative stimulation (drama, worry, upset, etc.).

And here I might mention that the research shows sociopaths don't feel emotions the same way normal people do. For example, they don't experience fear as unpleasant. This goes a long way to explaining the inexplicable behavior you'll see in sociopaths. Some feelings that you and I might find intolerable might not bother them at all.


http://www.youmeworks.com/sociopaths.html

Sounds like teenage angst to me.

The lord of the flies stuff happens in one way or another but what your calling me a sociopath. I don't know what that mean but by the use of it the big bang theory means you think I'm some kind of very good lyer nd wants to kill everyone better then me and on a par. No I am not. But I am one of the best liers I know because I can lie to people without lying to myslef.


What most of us don't get is most of our mental illness comes from our childhood. If you had a fucked up childhood, you end up being a fucked up adult. People are fucked, and I'm mad as hell and I'm not taking it anymore!!

The estimate of personality disorder diagnoses in the general (north american) population was placed between 15% and 19%. That is a staggering number of cases if that is true.

how do you know you have one?

It basically comes down to behavior applied rigidly across circumstances which call for flexibility in responding which results in a person experiencing significant social or occupational problems, or which (as you observe) results in the people around that person feeling like they are having social problems. For instance, someone who is a controlling person at work in a job as a manager might get a promomtion from the big boss, but if that controlling nature is carried into family and social relationship circumstances, there is a good chance that there is an issue happening. But the controlling person might think that everyone else is rebellious and not recognize that her own controllingness is the issue. it's gonna seem normal to her; it's all she's ever known. Many people who have one won't know it by definition; they will think people around them have one.

If you accept abuse as normal then you're fucked up.

[NoSeRider]

When I was going to high school I use to have an Art Teacher tell me that all you kids are sociopaths. At the time I resented it.

Now, that I look back....he was right.

[TheDirtSyndicate]

hehe, buck weisel

i've been drawing for as far back as i can remember. me being bullied later on in grade school and up through jr high had nothing to do with me creating art.

as far as my bullying experiences go, i mostly got revenge.
usually i'd catch one of the guys who fucked with me in the hall, NEAR A TEACHER, then i'd jump on them and start pounding the fuck out of them, that way the teacher would break us up before they'd even get a chance to fight back.
yes, i fought dirty.
all those fuckers were 3 times my size, and there was a bunch of them. they were practically a gang... so i got my revenge one by one.
one of the guys, i think his name was josh weeks or something like that, dude was a total prick. i hated his guts. well, we were in the same class together and the teacher broke everyone up into groups. he was of course in a group with 3 of his other friends... well, i deliberately broke the lead off my pencil and had to squeeze behind him and the wall to get to the pencil sharpener, as soon as i got behind him, i grabbed his head and slammed his face into his desk about 6 times before they pulled me off of him, then the teacher broke the whole thing up.
thats how i rolled back then, i took every opportunity i could because it was me against many, and i was smaller than all of em.
eventually they stopped fucking with me and i moved away.
after i moved away, no one ever messed with me again. i ended up bouncing around to 6 or 7 different schools, and never had a single problem again.

[drewfarr]

Ha, nope, Ive never been bullied. I've kind of been the fun kid who people liked to hang out with, even though I'm not the most popular. Whenever people have tried to pick on me I just blow them off. I mean, calling names and beating people up? If you're self esteem is that low, then all you're doing is making me feel better.

I have gotten into a couple fights though, but that was just for fun.

[Peter Coene]

I did until I snapped and beat up two different kids who both had been been driving me nuts. After that I was left alone.

[daestwen]

The estimate of personality disorder diagnoses in the general (north american) population was placed between 15% and 19%. That is a staggering number of cases if that is true.

how do you know you have one?

Uhm, well, either you figure out something is wrong and take yourself to therapy, or someone else figures out something is wrong and sends you to therapy.

I have a personality disorder (Dissociative Personality Disorder) but you'd probably never know unless I told you. It's not exactly something anyone would notice - all it really means is I have a hard time associating feelings with memories, and I'll seemingly not react to things and then all the sudden react when i finally click in to what I should be feeling about it. (edit: So basically I come off like a cold-hearted bitch a lot without meaning to. :) )

My mother, on the other hand, is Bi Polar, and we didn't know until she got herself into trouble, so there you go.

I'm sure most people have mild personality disorders... but, i mean, when does it stop being personality and start being disorder? :P

[drewfarr]

but, i mean, when does it stop being personality and start being disorder?

Whenever you feel like popping pills. mmmmm, valium.

[feifeicreate]

When I was in high school, I was so absorbed in my own little world I wasn't even aware that other people are bullying me, except in very few cases when things got a bit physical. Most of the time, I'll be like "what?....hum?...you said something to me?" I remember my note book got all torn up, and I was like "how could this happen?" I throw away the torn pages, and went back to normal. LOL...I was really slow on that. I guess eventually the bullies just got tired of me, because they won't get any reaction back. So they got borned and go for other more exciting targets.

I guess, it's not just artists, throw this poll to the general public, you probably got the same results. Evenyone gets bullied around (or bullied other people) at one point of their life. It has nothing to do with art.

[Shanemeh]

I did get a bit bullied back in middle school a bit. They did until I finally kicked the crap out of them after school. Never saw them again. At the time I really got into art when my friends started drawing, nothing to do with bullying. Ahh I have evolved from those silly anime drawings back in the day.

[alesoun]

Did I get bullied?Hell, yeah. Don't think it had anything to do with art, though.

Second time they tried to shove me down a hill; but my folks had sent me to self-defence classes meantime.

What can I say?

There wasn't a third time...

[JayTuk]

It appears that you are losing slightly...

[I never got bullied :) ]

[ArtZealot]

We didn't really have bullies in our school. It was a really small school. We had assholes who would try and give everyone shit but it was more irritating than actual bullying. We usually ended up getting them back and making them look stupid to the school somehow through various pranks. Near the end of high school though we were all pretty much friends anyway so i couldn't really consider anyone at my school an actual bullie.

Everyone got theirs in the end at my school, it seemed like. The "bullies" were assholes but we'd get together and devise ways to get them back like "so and so has been being a douche, lets put shaving cream all over his back when he walks by without him noticing"

Or there was another thing where we'd get together and say "lets spray a shitload of that terrible purfume on his backpack (or back of shirt) while you talk to him." (one of us would sit there and "spray spray spray spray spray spray" for about 5 minutes while someone else talked to him and distracted him. Then we'd go talk to a bunch of people maybe girls that he likes and tell them "yeah that asshole, so-and-so put on waaaaaay too much perfume today, go walk by him"

Or another "go over to his house, and invite him up on his roof to throw snowballs off of it, then take the ladder up to the roof and knock it down and leave him stuck on the roof" or "when he gets drunk and his pants fall off of him like they usually do, steal his pants and hide them"

I know this is making me sound like the cruel one but believe me, these people we did this to were assholes who totally deserved it and it was all in the name of revenge on the a-holes. I swear. It was fun.:devil:

[ChristianWeeks]

We didn't really have bullies in our school. It was a really small school. We had assholes who would try and give everyone shit but it was more irritating than actual bullying. We usually ended up getting them back and making them look stupid to the school somehow through various pranks. Near the end of high school though we were all pretty much friends anyway so i couldn't really consider anyone at my school an actual bullie.

Everyone got theirs in the end at my school, it seemed like. Like the bullies were assholes but we'd get together and devise ways to get them back like "so and so has been being a douche, lets put shaving cream all over his back when he walks by without him noticing"

Or there was another thing where we'd get together and say "lets spray a shitload of that terrible purfume on his backpack (or back of shirt) while you talk to him." (one of us would sit there and "spray spray spray spray spray spray" for about 5 minutes while someone else talked to him and distracted him. Then we'd go talk to a bunch of people maybe girls that he likes and tell them "yeah that asshole, so-and-so put on waaaaaay too much perfume today, go walk by him"

Or another "go over to his house, and invite him up on his roof to throw snowballs off of it, then take the ladder up to the roof and knock it down and leave him stuck on the roof" or "when he gets drunk and his pants fall off of him like they usually do, steal his pants and hide them"

I know this is making me sound like the cruel one but believe me, these people we did this to were assholes who totally deserved it and it was all in the name of revenge on the a-holes. I swear. It was fun.:devil:

You sir are my idol!! Teach me the ways of your pranks! I can only imagine how the amount of fun it is doing stuff like that.

Back to the actual thread, I think it all depends on what you consider "bullying". I mean, like lots of other people have stated, i'm not the most popular kid in school and I definitely take shit from some people, but only as much as I decide to stand. Theres soooo many guys around school that are total jackasses who are always trying to prove their machoness and keep their place in the unrecorded hierarchy that exists within their minds. It really pisses me off, and I will take shit from them, but the thing is they do it to EVERYBODY, which kind've makes it ok. Things never go far enough to physical brawls, mainly because the kids they all try and intimidate are too small to stand up to them.

I take shit from them because they're all on my cross country team, so they are always together. Half the time they make me want to rip their intestines out of their ass, and half the time they dont really do anything or they focus on somebody else, and sometimes its actually fun hanging out with them. The thing I maintain is that if it really gets far enough to where I consider it "bullying", I can stand up for myself and put an end to it.

As for previous years, i've never really had problems with bullies, particularly in a physical manner. People make fun of me, I make fun of people, its a perpetual cycle of bad manners and degrading remarks that I don't really like but I live with so I won't be singled out.

[TheDirtSyndicate]

i remember this kid in high-school that i was friends with, we were both total stoners even though we were both on probation... anyway, this kids older brother picked him up from school one day and as they drove by he rolled down the window and flipped me off, big shit eatin grin on his face, so i flipped him off too, laughing.
next thing i know, SKRRREEETCH, this dude's older brother, who by the way was a total hick and didn't understand ANYTHING about the "stoner/metal-head" culture, assumed i was flipping HIM off, slammed on the breaks and did a 180 in the parking lot.
he opens up his door and is all like "WHAT THE FUCK YOU FLIPPIN ME OFF FOR BOY?!!?"
i said "i wasn't flippin you off dumbass, i was flippin off your brother"
and of course he didn't understand that it was "all cool" between his brother and i, so he assumed i had beef with him. he revved his engine at me a few times acting like he was gonna run me over, etc. stupid shit like that.
for about a week this dude gave me shit.
saw me walking home from school one day and drove by real close splashing me with mud, you get the idea. shit like that.
anyway, i snuck over to their place one night with a syringe filled with industrial strength epoxy and rubbing alcohol.
i injected that shit into the locks of his trucks doors.
the rubbing alcohol keeps the epoxy liquid and evaporates quickly after injected. needless to say he had to get the locks replaced on his truck.
he didn't fuck with me after that.
funny thing though... i never told him or his brother i did it. i guess he just assumed it was me and figured it'd be best to back off. haha
good thing too, cause my next step was to cut the lock off of his meter behind his house. that'll get you in BIG trouble with the electric company because they'll assume that you're trying to steal electricity by fucking with the meters readings.
:D

[NoSeRider]

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You guys are sick. Sick, sick, sick, sick.
When you went to school, you were being institutionalized, and rightly so.

[Black Spot]

At my last school (boarding – so no escape) not being the most popular person made some of the younger bullies bolder. Once when I was playing the piano and after retrieving my sheet music from the bin for the umpteenth time without saying a word, a girl shut the lid on my hands. I stood up and slapped her hard, leaving a print on her cheek. Funny, I was never bothered again. Even got thanked by prefects. Should have done it sooner, but I’m pretty even tempered.

[TheDirtSyndicate]

noserider, i truly hope you posted that video to be funny... these people dont have a clue as to what they're talking about. leading experts my ass...
most of the drug users i know use strictly to feel good physically. haha, not because they have a mental illness, thats just absurd. and they certainly haven't DEVELOPED a mental illness because of their drug use. again, thats just absurd. the people in that video are representing the minority of drug users as the majority. its totally inaccurate, way off base. i think this video was created specifically to scare children away from doing drugs, so they exagerated and twisted the truth on purpose.

btw, i've been drug free for 17 years.
:P

[NoSeRider]

If you really think about it, prior to the industrial revolution kids were never placed in institutions, institutionalized, like they are today. They were never massed into a herd and confined in a pen as concentrated as they are nowadays prior to the mid 1800's.

There was a time that when you wanted to learn you were apprenticed by an adult and there was little interaction with children of your peers as you were learning.

I'm just wondering if todays school system sets you up for unrealistic expectations in behavior because mostly you're interacting with other kids, not adults? And kids really don't know jack shit.

Kids are cultural existentialists not humanists.

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They school them to confuse process with substance......His imagination is schooled to accept service in place of value....The rat race is mistaken for productive work.......Our society not only produces artifact things, but artifact people.

[Trefle]

Hmm.
I just graduated from high school, and I can't say I didn't get bullied, but I've definitely seen people who're treated worse than I am. I guess in other people's eyes, I'm the "kind, helpful, happy sunshine" kind of guy (a.k.a doormat), but it may be just because I didn't expose a lot of emotion and/or just prefer to stay silent / do nothing at all.

So far the bullying done to me in high school only consists of name-calling or some insults (I'm terribly fat, and the doormat factor kinda makes it worse in a way), and the rest....are my insane paranoia of guessing what were those people thinking about me and whether if they gonna hate (and bully) me or not.

But so far I'm fine. :D The bullying and/or paranoia did influence my art in a way, mainly in mood, and a fact that I use drawing to express my thoughts in a most innocent way possible.

Not in primary and middle school though. I've been definitely bullied in those years (the worst in the primary, God) but I don't think it has any effect on my muse / art. In fact, I haven't started drawing at that time (started at the end of my middle high school)

[Jasonwclark]

Some bully somewhere probably feels like a total asshole right now, for picking on Phelps when he was a kid. Just goes to show how much you can overcome, if you stayed focused and positive. :)