Intentional Dissonance -
A story about an addiction to Sadness. From the author of the popular blog, `I Wrote This For You.`
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Wednesday, 29 April 2015
quote [ Bullying adversely affects children in later life more than being maltreated, according to new research. A new study shows that children who have been bullied by peers suffer worse in the longer term than those who have been maltreated by adults. ]
As someone who was both bullied and maltreated, both of them fairly severely, I'm not sure if I entirely believe this article yet, but it makes enough sense out of my life that I kind of want to believe it. What do you think?
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Jack Blue said @ 10:30am GMT on 29th April
I recognize that. The few times I hit back, they tended to stay down. Got all kinds of shit for it. Not from adults, they knew very well what was going on and that I was very hard to provoke. But when I moved up a school people started to see me as some kind of ogre. I was large, about one head taller than other guys and with about 20 kgs on them, had a big undershoot and... Well. I looked like the bully in the thumb really. Thankfully the new class was great, and the bullying was mostly from people in the corridors.
I recognize the chihuahuas as well. Gave me an guilty satisfaction to hear that the worst of them died of an overdose a few years back. He clearly had his issues as well, but growing up is hard enough without some fuckers making it harder on you.
A lot of my insecurities and introvertisms are probably from that time.
Jack Blue said @ 6:32am GMT on 29th April
I recognize that. The few times I hit back, they tended to stay down. Got all kinds of shit for it. Not from adults, they knew very well what was going on and that I was very hard to provoke. But when I moved up a school people started to see me as some kind of ogre. I was large, about one head taller than other guys and with about 20 kgs on them, had a big undershoot and... Well. I looked like the bully in the thumb really. Thankfully the new class was great, and the bullying was mostly from people in the corridors.
I recognize the chihuahuas as well. Gave me an guilty satisfaction to hear that the worst of them died of an overdose a few years back. He clearly had his issues as well, but growing up is hard enough without some fuckers making it harder on you.
A lot of my insecurities and introvertisms are probably from that time.
I know it's a cliché, but I have never been found of the "big bully" picture. Unless it's older kids picking down, big fellas get their fair share of the crap to.
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Jack Blue said @ 10:30am GMT on 29th April
I recognize that. The few times I hit back, they tended to stay down. Got all kinds of shit for it. Not from adults, they knew very well what was going on and that I was very hard to provoke. But when I moved up a school people started to see me as some kind of ogre. I was large, about one head taller than other guys and with about 20 kgs on them, had a big undershoot and... Well. I looked like the bully in the thumb really. Thankfully the new class was great, and the bullying was mostly from people in the corridors.
I recognize the chihuahuas as well. Gave me an guilty satisfaction to hear that the worst of them died of an overdose a few years back. He clearly had his issues as well, but growing up is hard enough without some fuckers making it harder on you.
A lot of my insecurities and introvertisms are probably from that time.
I know it's a cliché, but I have never been found of the "big bully" picture. Unless it's older kids picking down, big fellas get their fair share of the crap to.
