lets face it ur gonna get bullied once in your life I didnt start getting bullied until I was 7 and thats only because my ears are huge but I didnt care until it came to middle school in 6th grade I started caring and more people picked on me until I standed up for myself and got in a huge fight against 3 people and I didnt last long next day they made.fun of me again and again and again and I lost it so got into a fight again and it was only 1on1 and I won but got suspended then went to a private school no one picked on me and this year going into 9th grade I thought "well let the insults come" but no one messes with me I guess its because you open up in high school or something but only people that bully me are my friends but its not serious its just for laughs

There are some kids I know who can simply say y*** and the whole class will laugh. They can literally repeat someone's lines and everyone automatically laughs at that person if he wants to embarass him/her. Who in the world can explain this idiocy?

I was once, kind of bullied, not enough to affect me throughout a day, just a moment of frustration, I think I got rid of the bullies by thinking outside the box, and focusing on what really was going on, and I just pretty much had a fight with them and found weak spots of them, (mentally this is) and I prodded on them spots until they realised I wasn't a suitable target.

Also one time a teacher bullied me a bit, but then I just focused on his weak points, telling him he was in a dead-end job, and that he feels he can pick on kids particularly because he was once bullied as a child before,(I just took a shot in the dark with that one, turned out it was true).

Also I agree with Quik, get into a fight, and you wont be bullied.

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"lets face it ur gonna get bullied once in your life I didnt start getting bullied until I was 7 and thats only because my ears are huge but I didnt care until it came to middle school in 6th grade I started caring and more people picked on me until I standed up for myself and got in a huge fight against 3 people and I didnt last long next day they made.fun of me again and again and again and I lost it so got into a fight again and it was only 1on1 and I won but got suspended then went to a private school no one picked on me and this year going into 9th grade I thought "well let the insults come" but no one messes with me I guess its because you open up in high school or something but only people that bully me are my friends but its not serious its just for laughs"

I wanna make fun of you for your grammar. But ears really dont matter. It matters if you just dont take care of yourself though, then the teases are mearly a warning.

You know there IS a quote button? You're fuckin dumb

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I was once, kind of bullied, not enough to affect me throughout a day, just a moment of frustration, I think I got rid of the bullies by thinking outside the box, and focusing on what really was going on, and I just pretty much had a fight with them and found weak spots of them, (mentally this is) and I prodded on them spots until they realised I wasn't a suitable target.

Also one time a teacher bullied me a bit, but then I just focused on his weak points, telling him he was in a dead-end job, and that he feels he can pick on kids particularly because he was once bullied as a child before,(I just took a shot in the dark with that one, turned out it was true).

Also I agree with Quik, get into a fight, and you wont be bullied.

Common sense is the majority of verbal bullies weakness. This is how I avoided bullying for most of my life. However, physical bullies will just laugh it off, and call you a smart ass before attempting to pound you into the ground, in which case you have to hold your own in physical conflict if it comes to that.
After that, you're just not the right target for bullies, makes you feel better about yourself in the end if you best them in every way possible.

There's this bully at my school last year, he used to beat me and punch me, until I got to the point of thinking about getting even. I tripped him, he moaned like a big ass baby. I dunno, I felt like a spike of joy inside. I know he can't take me, I just don't like getting into fights. Me and my friends talk about how much of a punk this guy is, hopefully we'll graduate without getting a record. The ones that bullied me before also kinda became scared of me, I fight back now, not like before just standing around and ignoring them.

All in all, my Point of View is bullies have some sort of a problem at home, or something and they try to take it out on the ones they know they can take.

I dunno if that made sense or something

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You know there IS a quote button? You're frickin dumb

I knew there was, it didn't work so I used quotation marks. One time at school, there was a kid who ran p and like started strangling him, so I ran up and body-checked the kid on the gravel. He never tried to strangle him again, obviously. The teacher asked me to use my words. I said, "If I would have used my words, I would have been expelled.

you checked out his hot bod on the gravel?

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I knew there was, it didn't work so I used quotation marks. One time at school, there was a kid who ran p and like started strangling him, so I ran up and body-checked the kid on the gravel. He never tried to strangle him again, obviously. The teacher asked me to use my words. I said, "If I would have used my words, I would have been expelled.

Fair enough. Also, i did not type "frickin" i typed "fuckin". Please do not misrepresent me when you quote me. If you can't handle adult language then don't quote me, but i will not be censored.

Moderator, not even the FCC can censor Highly. What chance have you got? Anyway am I the only person who's never had a real bully for an extended period of time? I mean sure there's always that one dickhead who'll laugh when you answer a question in class like an intelligent human being. Or the one who pushes you in the hallway because his dad beats his ass in a drunken rage every night and he needs a release. But why avoid conflict with them? Personally I beat the shit out of all my "bullies" on their first offense so they don't get used to it. If they're bullying you then the conflict is already happening. Not to mention you're justified in defending yourself so unless you have a real douche of a principal no serious consequences should happen to you. Basically, if you have a physical bully then you need to get physical too. If you don't know how to fight then make an effort to learn. Start lifting, get some friends and jump him or something. I know that sounds like a really hood answer but it works. In the end it's better you than him/her.

Starting a physical altercation with people is not always a good idea since they might have something like a knife or several friends who are much stronger than you. Wouldn't it be a more permanent solution to make the idea of harassing other people just for the heck of it a very discouraged thing to do? This would cause the people who are too dense to realize that it is not a good thing to attack people for no fucking reason to be persuaded by peer pressure or something.

Completely encouraging people to fight back physically could actually make problems worse; I'm pretty sure I heard somewhere that *punishment* is not a very effective technique of persuasion.

But sometimes other forms of persuasion just don't work on some people. I was just suggesting what I suggested because it worked for me personally. Bully free my whole life and still going strong. And while what you said is right to an extent, there will never be a permanent fix to a certain problem in every instance.

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And while what you said is right to an extent, there will never be a permanent fix to a certain problem in every instance.

Maybe not, but it is important to find the method that solves the problem most effectively, the most frequently, and based on statistics I've heard/seen around over time it doesn't seem like fighting people is really *that*.

I agree with Fusion. Physical altercation isn't always a good idea. However, all bullies and bullyees are different to some degree. I used to be sort of a bully (I never hurt anyone physically though), but like I would tease someone who was fat. Fortunately I realized one day (I was in about 6th grade at the time) that I was wrong and I apologized and made everything right and we became friends. I regret being mean to people, so I at least tried to go back and fix the problem. I think people who are bullies don't think that they're a bad person or anything and sometimes maybe they cross the line but are too proud to apologize and correct the situation. Maybe they don't want to admit that they're wrong.
In Amanda Todd's case, I guess most of the people who were bullying here weren't directly 1 on 1 bullying her but spectating and agreeing with the popular opinions of her. I do think kids today overreact to bullying in some cases, but Amanda Todd had moved to a different school and people still bullied her so it may have really hurt her and made her think that everyone hated her.