nightwing1536:

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krungle:

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start calling bullying what it really is. peer abuse. no more ‘bullying builds character’ or ‘be the bigger person’ shit. it’s time to recognize that this type of abuse can be just as damaging and just as traumatizing. at worst, it makes people suicidal and too scared to be themselves. not just in the moment but potentially for the rest of their lives. being abused by your peers is immensely harmful and it’s about time people admit that

I don’t think bullies give a rat’s @$$.

neither do schools usually which is the problem

I think a big part of what makes bullying traumatic isn’t the bullying itself, but the reaction to it. It’s one thing to be abused by your peers, it’s a whole other thing when the authority figures (who held an assembly on the topic saying “come to us if you’re being bullied we’re here to help”) So you swallow your pride of not being able to deal with it yourself, you disregard the threats of what will happen if you tell, you ask for help – and they brush it off, tell you to toughen up, they even rat you out to the kids who had been picking on you – that’s what fucks you up imo – you can deal with ‘some kids want to hurt you’ but throw in ‘and nobody cares and you’re pathetic for needing help’ and that’s when you can get serious emotional and psychological issues

For real. Goshdamn

yeah, exactly. For at least 4 years of my life every day going to school felt like walking into a battlefield with no allies. I could handle the bullying. I knew I was right and they were wrong, and that I din’t deserve any of it. But what really fucked me up was the absolute lack of action or help from both the rest of my classmates and the teachers.

I literally ASKED, when I saw how ugly things were starting to get, to be placed in a different class from my bully the next year. But this girl’s mom really liked me and thought I was a great influence on her demon child and she asked them to keep us together. Guess who they listened to.

And then when I told the school some of the shit that was going on, they said that their policy was not to intervene because it could make the situation worse instead of helping. It still makes me so angry I wanna break something whenever I think about it