Cyber Bully vs. Face to Face Bully

[jeffbert]

sorry, but I simply must say that you really do not have such a problem with bullies unless your own left arm attacks you! I suffered a boo-boo way back in 1961, & since then, I have spent much effort fighting left arm. I guess it could be compared to a stroke. So, not only did I have the normal kids teasing me, excluding me from playground games, etc., my own body was against me. Left leg would turn the ankle in all three axis, & it was very difficult even to hobble. Others mocked the way I walked & 'ran' (if you can call it that. They called me ######## (my last name) which I hate to this day. Yeah, at 55, I ought to have gotten over it, long ago, but I have not. "########, you suck!" "you can't be on our team, ########, you'll make us loose!" are just a few of the things they said.

I know how bad face-to-face bullies can be, as I took it from even non-bullies. Every kid whose older siblings ill-treated him, took it out on me. They will continue to tease you as long as you give them the desired response; me, I cried. They usually took that as an invitation to torment me even more.

Sometimes, nothing you can do, or avoid doing will make them stop. You simply must reassure yourself that regardless of what they say about you, you are a worthwhile person. Realize why they torment you, it is usually because they have bad times too. It ain't fair is it? They have stress, & they take it out on you. being depressed only makes it worse. Toughen up, & tell yourself that you are somebody, & eventually this will stop.

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[diehard67]

I was a popular target for bullying in school, but I didn't have to deal with internet bullying much mostly because the internet was just starting to get popular back then.

but one jerk did send me a rude email once, but that was it.

[Earthshine]

Hm, on the topic of personally bullies I didn't really have a whole lot, not the way how I define 'bully' anyway. More like jerks that occasionally said mean things to me, but then again these people said mean things to EVERYONE.

There WAS however this one boy in middle school that went out of his way to try and harass me. I was the only person in my whole school that had red hair, and I was a little pudgy then and awkward. However the funny thing is years later in my first year of college he saw me and flirted shameless at me (I certainly changed a whole lot from middle school!) and he did not even know who I was. It was pretty funny and when I set him straight he was floored with embarrassment. I mean what can you really say in that situation?

He never talked to me again.

[tailz]

I have been dealing with bullies since my first year of middle school. (Still am today actually.) Good thing I have my Dark and scary looks charms to brush them off. I think I started to scare my classmates back in 8th grade. I still hear people say I'm scary even today. I guess its because I don't talk much (I'm pretty much mute in school. I only talk when I have something important to say.) and probably because I always have dark circles under my eyes. (Which I cannot get rid of no matter how much I sleep. )

Though, still kids bully me. I only had one jerk who bullied me on the internet by saying that my Cyborg 009 icon was a ripoff of another anime. (Which, if you know about Cyborg 009's history, it obviously wasn't. !) It got me annoyed and I hardly ever go back to that forum site because of that reason.

So, to sum it up, they are both bad.

[spartanx01]

Both suck, only difference is Cyber-Bullies are nothing but cowards that hide behind usernames, and distance from their victim whom for all they know could be a body builder, that could snap them in half like a twig. While Face-to-face bullies.....well I had something for these losers but it's escaped me.

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

I remember a few bullies as a kid. I also remember striking back once almost like Ralphie did in "A Christmas Story" (though I didn't bloody my attacker, just scared the crap out of him). Guess it was sorta an Astro moment for me!