I get bullied for my size, my weight, and my look constantly. It’s something that I’m glad we touched on in WWE. I’m glad we touched on it because it’s real: it’s something that happens in real life to kids all the time, especially in the age of cyber bullying.
I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I thought it looked great! I didn’t understand why anyone else didn’t think so.
I’ve been bullied because of the way I’ve looked growing up.
Like any organizer worth their salt, I’m open to critique, but I won’t be bullied or treated badly. I’m an imperfect human, and as such, I have a proclivity to make mistakes. And while I make mistakes, I am not my mistakes.
Around 10, I got chubby. I knew I’d crossed a line when the only pants that fit were from the ‘Junior Plenty’ line at JC Penny. My parents had split up, my mom was going through a dark time, and my brother and I were getting bullied in our new neighborhood. Life was big and unsafe.
All human beings are inherently good, so when someone goes off the rails, there must be some mitigating factor – he was bullied, was a loner, had an abusive father, or a domineering mother, etc.
I was bullied because I have this thick Nigerian accent.
I got bullied and got pulled backwards in my wheelchair and laughed at. I was the only Black person at my school, so I was very singled out.
I’ve been bullied my whole life, whether it was about my peers or comments on Instagram or Twitter, whatever. And I never talked about my story, really. I feel like I’ve kind of accepted it because I realized that just comes with the territory.
I’m not going to be bullied by an overzealous agency of the United States government.
When someone isn’t ready we must not try to force them out. People are being bullied and committing suicide because they’re gay and it’s horrible.
Art history became an A-level option at my school the year I started sixth form. This happened because another student and I cajoled and bullied the head of the art department into arranging it with the examination board.
I will not be silenced. I will not be intimidated. I’m not going to be bullied by Donald Trump.
I was bullied about everything, from the way I looked to the fact that my father had been a dancer.
To be completely honest, I think if I hadn’t been bullied into the band, I would have been happier as an art student. I would have been happier in a Brian Eno world.
We can all be cornered and victimized and bullied by someone who’s trying to take our contextual clues of our personality or appearance, the circumstantial, and trying to make that evidence to fit their narrative. That’s very scary.
Many players in the big blind get in trouble by calling pre-flop raises; they try to do too much. They don’t want to get bullied, so they attempt a tricky check-raise bluff or overplay their hands in an ill-advised effort to push back.
Mum grew up in Wythenshawe, one of 12. My mum didn’t really go to school and didn’t see the need for education, she got bullied so she excluded herself.
When I was in high school, I got bullied through social media – on the Internet, on my Facebook. That was hard for me, and I think social media has made it easy for people to bully other people on-line because they can just post anything they want anonymously.
When I was growing up as a kid, it was always, ‘Oh, you’re being bullied. Well, toughen up. Get some tough skin and deal with it.’ That’s how we were told to deal with it, and it’s not that simple.
I’ve been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don’t have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.
I grew up getting bullied and fighting a lot.
Yes, everybody has bullied me. They kept saying I was nasal and what not.
I was bullied at school, and I let that get hold of me and withdrew into myself – I regret letting that happen.
I’m not going to be bullied or pushed around by the group of the day. You’ve got to have political courage. You’ve got to have your own inner beliefs.
What people don’t realize is that fame, whatever your worst experience in high school, when you were being bullied by those ten kids in high school, fame is that, but on a global scale, where you’re being bullied by millions of people constantly.
People who are feeling bullied and people who feel like outsiders should talk to their parents and guardians about finding a place with likeminded people where they can feel accepted. That’s what I needed, and that’s what I found with musical theater.
Words do cut, and they do hurt. It was one thing growing up where you were bullied, but you’d just come home. Now you can’t really escape it. It’s to a point where you turn off that phone, you live your life, and you try not to let the words of others offend or stop you from being you and living your life.
I could help a lot of people’s kids that are going through racism or getting bullied. That’s what I wanna do.
I was bullied in first grade, and it’s definitely not fun. But always tell somebody instead of holding it in. Communicate with people and just say, ‘Hey, I’m being bullied. I need help.’
