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Post by Twice-Shy on Apr 21, 2003 11:21:59 GMT -5
It has never happened to me personally, but I have seen loads of people bullied becasue they were shy or quiet. How many people have stories to tell?
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Post by moogle on Apr 21, 2003 11:32:30 GMT -5
not me. i was pretty much ignored..until my last years of high school, when people were afraid of me  |
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Post by spitzig on Apr 21, 2003 11:42:15 GMT -5
Through most of Junior high and high school. It'd probably be more accurate to say I was picked on because I was generally a geek, than because I was shy.
I only had one "real bully", though. I shut him up by bringing up his dead father one time, though. He never bothered me after that. I love psychological warfare. I don't like hurting people, but I still relish the look in his face.
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Post by NewOrleansLady on Apr 21, 2003 20:35:10 GMT -5
I guess I kind of blended into the woodwork because I was never bullied but, I was never included in most activities either, except for the ones my friends were involved with.
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Post by Twice-Shy on Apr 22, 2003 10:28:43 GMT -5
I had a great time aat school which was pretty surprising because I was pretty smart and I went to a state school. Normally thats enough to get your craop kicked in. But I was always very sporty and played on every sports team possible like the footy and athletics team. A lot of those who picked on people in our class tended to be sporty as well so I was accepted.
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Post by urbanspaceman on Apr 22, 2003 17:57:40 GMT -5
I also had a good time on the whole at high school, mainly because I had a reliable set of friends and I was into stuff like football, basketball, so u could kind of get accepted through that.
There were still times that I got teased (I never really saw it as bullying) by one or two who liked to point out the obvious: that I was quiet. This of course turned all the classes attention onto me which was the worst thing I could imagine. All I wanted to do was blend into the background, which I supposed I achieved in the main, as my prevailing memories of high school are good ones. In this respect I suppose I'm very lucky.
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Post by glenn miller on Jun 2, 2003 6:26:13 GMT -5
i got picked on some when i was younger in school. but as i got older. they stopped since i was biggerthen.
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Post by Mildman1 on Jun 2, 2003 16:39:56 GMT -5
When I was younger I was tall for my age, and I don't think people were interested in me enough to pick on me. Had a friend who was bullied - he wasn't shy, just small, and had a habit of singing. The bullies were from his previous school, and for the first couple of years in secondary school, often during lunch break they made him sing Elvis songs. The bullies themselves weren't among the brightest.
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Post by SpaceMonkey on Jun 23, 2003 17:30:59 GMT -5
id go as far as to say that getting bullied at school led to me becoming so shy and have so much social anxiety. School was the worse years of my life and im so glad they are in the past  |
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Post by Sanity FreeZ0ne on Aug 27, 2003 15:12:34 GMT -5
I was picked on for a bit in secondary school apart from the last two years where I was generally ignored.
I wouldn't say that the bullying was solely responsible for my shyness as I had always been more of a quieter reserved person from when I started school. But after I was bullied I just faded into a social outcast and I didn't make any real effort into trying to converse and socialise with people, mainly because I thought no one wanted to really know me. I realise know though that I should have tried a lot harder to make friends when I was at school and I would definitely do things a lot differently if I could live my school days again.
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Post by ASolitarySoul on Sept 9, 2003 21:32:53 GMT -5
It has never happened to me personally, but I have seen loads of people bullied becasue they were shy or quiet. How many people have stories to tell? Yes - but there’s more to it than that. I was ... am ... a social misfit as a consequence of the way I was raised by my parents ... and the mistakes that I made when I was young. I have already posted in here about being a misfit, and how THAT relates to my shyness issues, so I’ll drag it back up to the top of the queue, as it is relevant to this question. (There is also my website, which goes into how I got to be as I am in greater detail. There are also some images of a cow giving birth to a calf in my image gallery - if anyone is interested.) It creates a vicious circle, where the bullying leads to increased shyness, which makes you a more attractive target for bullies. I just had this hostile attitude to most of my peers (except for my fellow misfits), which was returned in kind. It wasn’t until much later in life that I realized what went wrong, that I realized the mistakes that I made - and my parents made. Solitary Soul All about me -> users3.ev1.net/~solitarysoul/----------------------------------------------------- |
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Post by Sanity FreeZ0ne on Sept 10, 2003 16:20:09 GMT -5
(There is also my website, which goes into how I got to be as I am in greater detail. There are also some images of a cow giving birth to a calf in my image gallery - if anyone is interested.) Interesting stuff on your site..must be a pretty good way to get a lot of things out in the open, I would guess. The thing I probably relate too most out of what I read there would probably be the Personality and Social Ineptitude. That's always been my biggest problem, I think. The fact that I’m just a very boring person who never has anything to say of any interest, and the only "personality" I have are ones stolen of others. I also, often subconchesly (sp), try to take on the personality of people who I am with. This is probably coming from my fear of people judging me. |
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