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So Allen,
Just curious, were you bullied as a kid in school and then just adapted by pretending to not care? Or did you really not care?
Fabulous,
(First of all have to say your avatar is the coolest! Love it!)
I was bullied in school and my father told me to fight back and let the bully know who was boss. Stellar advice for a 6 year-old little girl fighting off 5 or 6 boys at a time! Well, although I did become physically strong, I spent my elementary years getting into fist fights as I fought off the boys who picked on me on a daily basis. I had no girl friends because they were afraid of me.
The mobbing thing you mention sounds what I went through. No one ( teachers etc.) ever questioned why I was getting into fights and instead automatically assumed that I had caused the ruckus in the first place. The one time they called in my parents they told them not to worry because once I got older and started to like boys my behaviour would change. Seriously ?
I still can’t believe to this day that not one adult ever intervened or believed me.
In school I was very shy and spent my time reading so that I could be somewhat invisible but still present without feeling like I was drawing attention to myself.
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