Reply #90: Yes [View All]

1. At school by rich kids, no one in my neighborhood would dare mess with my family.

2. All of the above, except race; bullying was white-on-white.

3. I became a punk rocker and started carrying choke chains. I broke one of the bullies' ribs and didn't even get in trouble because he was such an asshole to everyone.

4. I wouldn't say beaten up. A lot of dirty tricks like finger crushing, blindside kicks, but no full-blown beatings. Mostly verbal.

5. I've never had a "group" of friends because I always thought one or more people in each clique was an asshole. I tended to have one friend from each clique and our friendships always caused problems. I had no interest in romantic relationships, just sex, until my late 20s. As a teen it was slow coming but it came...

6. Mostly junior high. I smeared a jock kid on the first day of high school and then no one bothered me anymore.

7. LOL! I guess when they didn't expel me for breaking that kids' ribs, that was sort of a help.

8. I don't know if I did it to cope or not, but yes, plenty of risk and self-destruction in my youth.

9. I will always mistrust mainstream, clean-cut, jock-type guys. I think this has actually served me well, rather than damaging me...

10. I believe my intensely anti-authority stance depends somewhat on the experience of being bullied. I'm also willing to sell the rich down the river because I know what they were like as children. I don't like kids in general and I'm particularly disgusted by "protect the children" politics.