I wasn’t into making classmates laugh – or any of the comedy cliches. I wanted to disappear. I was a nonentity. I wasn’t too clever but I wasn’t in the bottom group. I wasn’t loud but I wasn’t quiet. I wasn’t a bully and I wasn’t bullied.
I admire anyone who can show they can dig deep. Ballesteros and Sergio Garcia, people who are obviously mentally strong. Or Graham Thorpe. He is your fighter. He’s the kid who is bullied at school but will stand up in a fight when it matters.
I’m banking on the fact that there are still good people in government who will prevent this. I’ve been a journalist for more than 33 years, and at Rappler we refuse to change, I refuse to be bullied.
I was in high school after 9/11 happened. I didn’t get bullied. I didn’t get treated differently, but I definitely felt people looked at me differently.
I wasn’t hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.
Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn’t matter.
I know how hard it is to be bullied about a part of yourself that you can’t change, or just because of who you are. It can turn you into an angry and bitter person.
I didn’t have any friends. I was bullied. I didn’t play sports.
When you are being bullied a long way from home, when you face that challenge, that is where you find out a lot about yourself.
I was bullied from fifth grade on. They started making fun of me because my mom was in a wheelchair, then they started making fun of me because I was poor and then it evolved to my size.
There are children suffering, even dying from being bullied.
If you’ve witnessed bullying or if you’re being bullied, tell somebody you trust. Tell mom and dad. Tell your counselors or your coaches. Tell your teachers. Tell an adult who you trust.
I’m really proud of ‘The Gift.’ There are stories we can all relate to – a first love that went wrong, a person who bullied us at school, a kind person we took for granted.
How can we let students go to school everyday in an environment where they’re afraid to be verbally or physically bullied? We are better than this, which is why we need to keep moving forward.
Many young people, many children, are being abused, being put down, being bullied because of their sexual orientation.
I used to get bullied for being so small. I was really short until I was 16, then I grew a foot taller.
My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn’t bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.
I really was bullied badly in school.
And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I’ve never been bullied into any cut, frankly.
I don’t have a hateful bone in my body. I don’t believe anyone should be bullied or made to feel bad about who they are.
It’s really important that people know about it and the issue in schools because it happens every day to people and it really hurts when people get bullied.
If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.
You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they’re being bullied.
It’s good that fat schoolchildren are no longer bullied, but it’s worrying if they feel it’s OK to be large because no one is pointing it out.
Being honest about being bullied in school and my bipolar was not so much of a ‘do I or don’t I?’; it was waiting for the right time. Even before I knew what making a mark on the world meant, I knew I wanted to make a difference.
When I was young and getting bullied at school and really not feeling like I would amount to much and staying isolated, my mom used to say to me a lot about how you treat people and always having dignity and respect.
I feel like everyone in life someway or somehow may have been bullied – or may have been a bully.
Having been bullied growing up, it’s something that’s really near and dear to my heart. You probably won’t have many friends on Snapchat if you’re being a jerk.
I don’t have resentments towards anyone I played with or to the guy who bullied me in the sixth grade. I’ve worked through it.
Children should always be brave and do something about bullying. It’s not okay to stand by and let it happen. Bullies thrive off secrecy. Children should tell someone if they see someone being bullied.
Growing up, at that time, I didn’t want to be black because I was bullied, and I’d tell my mum that I wanted to be white like everyone else at school.
When I was a kid, I used to stop bullies. I’d get so angry when I saw people being bullied. I’d be like, ‘Stop doing that to him!’
You see another side of Draco when he’s with his dad. When Draco is with his dad, he doesn’t say anything. He keeps his mouth shut. He’s sort of bullied by his dad, so he acts very different.
I’m a massive fan of Didier Drogba, I love the way he plays. He’s not as stacked as me but he’s strong and he’s still scoring goals. I’m a fan of Diego Costa as well. I think he crosses the line at times but I like the fact he doesn’t allow himself to be bullied.
I was a bully in fifth and sixth grade. I wasn’t one of the bullies – I wasn’t strong or dominant enough to be one of the kids who bullied everyone in equal measure. I was a bully, in that I bullied a kid, whose name I won’t mention here. My bullying was selective and personal.
Love Is Louder is a movement that is hopefully going to bring some awareness and make some noise when it comes to teens who are feeling suicidal or even just sad, outcasts, and being bullied, and really feel like they have nowhere to turn to.
I was bullied a lot… doing anything overly well was punished by the kids.
Bullying is never fun, it’s a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.
I was bullied by Subhash Ghai. He even took me to the court and wanted me to cancel my first show. It was quite stressful. He sent a message to all the producers that nobody should work with me.
As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
I’ve never worked in my natural accent, having studied so hard to get rid of it when I moved to England as a child where I was bullied at school for ‘talking funny.’
I always wanted to play with my brothers, but they never let me and always bullied me. The bonding with my brothers happened only after we went our separate ways. That’s when we understood the value of each other. Now, we talk a lot.
I know what it’s like to be in the closet! I know what it’s like to be bullied and attacked because someone or some group thought I was different or below them… so, I’m coming out of the closet as an ally of equality for everyone; as an ally to hope.
As I got into high school I sort of came into my own and gained some confidence and, luckily, wasn’t really bullied by others.
Young adult novels don’t shy away from the discussion of weight issues, and ‘Blubber,’ the tale of an overweight, not-so-sympathetic fifth-grader bullied by her peers, is a refreshing take.
I didn’t have many friends; I was kind of bullied at school.
I developed my armour at prep school. I was the smallest guy in the school. I got bullied a lot. So I developed broad shoulders.
Being bullied was the most difficult part of my early teen years.
No one knew I was gay growing up but I was bullied. I was a cheerleader, fairly popular and considered straight.
Maybe all teenagers feel like they don’t fit in. I never felt like a cool kid. I remember being bullied for being Asian.
I’ve been a wrestling fan my whole life, and for so many years a lot of us have been, for lack of a better word, bullied. We’ve been teased, kidded, eyes rolled from our peers and family members. ‘You watch wrestling?!?’ I see my shows as a safe zone, a safe haven.
I was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.
You come out of your MFA program with a cogent clutch of stories, trying to get an agent interested, and she or he admits these are quality, sure, but this agent actually needs something the publisher can make money on. So you get kind of bullied by the market into writing a novel.
I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an ‘Iron Chef,’ actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it!
I got bullied so much growing up for being a different color in a majority white school.
I will stand up for a girl who is being harassed or bullied for choosing to wear revealing clothes. I will stand up for that!
It’s important to remember, most people have been bullied, and it makes you a stronger person in the long run.
I didn’t get bullied any more than anybody else. I think I got bullied more for being poor than being gay. But no more than any other kid. And I’m sure that I did my fair share of picking on other kids, too. We’re all humans.
I know how bad bullying can hurt. I was bullied when I was a kid.
