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am I a troll just because I have a question about how to make views on youtube, or it just a real troll trying to start something.

I was on a facebook group about kayaking and just wanted to know if kayaking videos got views, and someone commented this is a troll account right? I didn't want to get into it with the guy because I know those types of people are usually the types that try to bait you into an altercation so that they can say rude and mean things. I did report him and I did delete the post about kayaking videos on youtube, should I have kept the post so that facebook can see the comment that troll made

2 Comments
2024/05/01
19:27 UTC

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Boys bully me in the football team.

I am in America so I play American football in my country. The problem is I am a girl in high school. I want try out out for the school football team. But all the boys and coach say no just because I am a girl. The coach even said I should join the cheer leading team which I don't want to do.

I really want to play football. All the boys say because I am a girl I will hurt myself and cry. They all called me a weak little girl. But how do I prove to them I am capable of playing football?

Or is it wrong if I feel like actually quitting?

2 Comments
2024/05/01
19:15 UTC

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When standing up to a bully goes too far?

Hi,

I am sorry you were bullied. Truly. If I had the power, I would personally break your bully's face and probably scare you, but my intentions would be for the best, imo.

My heart goes out to everyone in this forum. Some people think I come off as a macho whatever, but I have gotten emotional about this many, many times. I hope that you all live happy lives and can let these things go, unlike me. You have limitless potential.

If you have time and want to help others (as I plan to), please read further.

Like many people here, I was bullied when I was younger. Due to some combination of mental factors and circumstance, I initially fought back successly.

Point in case: Second day of the first grade - kids pinned me down and took my shoes. on the first day, we had raced and came in second behind a kid who stayed back. i was fat, but i was still fast. i didn't play with them. plus more bs circumstance. anyways, they pinned me down as i played in the sandbox alone, and peeled off my shoes. my fear burned into rage when i felt the cold wind on my socks. I was so angry, i wrestled my way back up and struck at thim in wide windmills. i felt no pain, only pushing. i got one shoe back, then beat them with it to get my other. me vs four or five and they lost. there are more details, but whatever. it ended when i pinned the instigator down on the grown womping on him until they pulled me off, leaving me alone.

cool as that may sound, it didn't stop the problems forever. i became a minion of the lead bully bc he was bigger than me and i didn't have the intelligence or spine to stay his enemy. i didn't bully others, but i let him do it and bully me. pathetic, but not that bad at the time, atleast for me. years later, it got worse. i was obnoxious, impulsive (adhd) and poorly socialized. in middle school, partially due to my weight, i became a sychophant and coward. in high school, i lost the weight and developed a drinking problem. i was so reckless that i developed some social cache as a rebel. somehow, i managed to avoid getting arrested despite several run-ins with the law, but i was still a coward when it came down to being sober and confronting bullies.

fast forward years later, in college, i became more social (with alcohol and other things) and was regarded as vey cool and social. i made real friends. and i made it my mission to punish bullies. i would say the meanest things and threaten violence. freshman year, a boy grabbed one of my girlfriends by the throat to toss her out of his room. she was being obnoxious and was in his dorm room, but was in no way physical. maybe she deserved it, idk. but when i heard about this, i went to his dorm room in the middle of the day and went psycho, beating him to where he wore a hat to hide the bruises. i left before i could get into trouble. later, him and his hallmates came to the dining hall and waited outside to jump me. i was with my friends when i heard, but my rage overpowered any logic. i went out to beat them all, a skinny 6' tall kid weighing 150lb. my friends followed (luckily), and we had a brawl in front of the dining hall. this, at one of the biggest universities in the country. again, somehow, we managed to break it up and left before the cops came. a police cruiser was sitting in front of the dining hall the next day, watching for trouble. a reputation grew about me and i saw myself as somehow the arbiter of justice.

yea, right.

its pathological. when i hear someone being mean, gratuitously, something about me rages. ironically, i am mean as hell too. all the time. some might say i am a bully, but i do believe there is a difference qualitatively there. i will often try to help those that are looked down on or isolated. i never push them down further. i often apologies when i felt i was in the wrong and do so profusely. my words always focused on a subject and activity and a facet of people. i do not focus on putting someone down, so much as what I believe is accurately portraying the situation. or perhaps this is more bs analytical defensiveness. i just admitted it was pathological, right?

this verbal analytical viciousness is like a robotic habit i have (i was recently diagnosed with asperger's/autism). as i've become more judgement and knowledgeable, my words have become much worse than my fists. i find whatever it is about the bully in some weakness-memory cach my mind processes hourly.

i remember the most embarassing thing said about them or their background. due to my own insecurities, i am obsessed with my own body and spot physical flaws in others easily. assymetry, pockets of fat under their clothing, body language etc. so, if i feel they are being a bully or abusing their status, i will tear them down. it is a briefly gratifying impulse i find hard to stop. ex: 'you're fat too. what are you, 190? and 5'7"?' in response to someone harrasing another about their weight.

this all might make me sound like a good guy still up to now, but there are negative consequences. the person may be bullying, but that is not their entire personality. they could be kind in other situations. i alienate that person. i make everyone feel awkward. i still have friends, but i've lost many as well. i have become a person who is easily feared, but not easily likely. some think this genuine, but they are a minority. those i wish to defend get embarassed. the girlfriend of mine who's assailant/bully i beat down way back was angry as hell at me for days because her dorm ostracized her briefly. then she came to be grateful. i didn't want either response- i wanted the bullying to stop.

now, i have three kids. in trying to prevent them from every being bullied, my eldest son has become far too rough. although he's toned it down under my backpedaling influence, i'm afraid he could hurt of kill someone. he is very similar to me but far more physically gifted. my wife, fortunately, is working on that and is making progress.

Even so, and to the purpose of this article, i am writing a book that features bullying (with better grammar than this post, apologies for that) and wanted your feedback on what's acceptable to publish and what would have an impact, if not be positively received. i believe this could help kids like me, my children, and many others that have been victims. three ways to look at the way I'd like to illustrate bullying:

  1. Applicable examples acceptable to society of how to deal with bullying

ex: telling an adult; telling the bully to stop; ignoring them; have stronger body language/confidence; stand up for others verbally/emotionally acceptable

  1. Applicable examples unacceptable to society or are atleast controversial

ex: fight the bully physically; tear into the bully verbally

  1. Unapplicable examples / escapism that may be gratifying to readers

ex: either example of #2 but exaggerated; getting back at them in some in-depth scheme

My book:

Settting: the book's setting is a boarding school training for a sort of apocalypse, so combat training is highlight prized. He embraces violence. males and females fight each other. a trained female fighter, there (or irl), can beat a man.

Protagonists: two older sons and a daughter all in high school. elder son is a junior, middle son is a sophmore, and daughter is a freshman. my older son has become embittered and vicious verbally but there are differences. He holds back his physicality, but given the setting he can not any longer as they join this school.

Some examples I've thought of specifically and wanted feedback on:

ex1: a girl his age is bullying his sister. he will likely verbally tear into her. but, what is that girl beats his sister down? then, is him beating the bully, a female, down, acceptable? i think the american public beat me, the author, down over this.

ex2: in the backstory of this novel, bullies have called my son names. faggot. pizza-face. etc. for weeks. he calls out sick and his younger brother comforts him. another day of this goes by. on the third day, his brother stays in the living room. my older son walks out to see him crying to his younger sister. the bullies called him names. my older son goes back to school. he catches their eye on the way to the bathroom, where they have tried to humiliate him by kicking open the stall when he poops to take pictures. he waits there, then ambushes them with packs of dirt in his pockets and hands, overpowering them after blinding them. he goes too far and puts one of them in a coma. he feels horrible about this, but somehow avoids getting into trouble (explained later)> and then resorts to only verbally assaulting bullies. does this make him unrelatable or unempathizable?

ex3: he has impressive hacking abilities. he can reverse whatever is done to his sister or himself. deepfake naked picture of her with a fake account is taken down. he creates ones of her bullies. he can even hack their families bank accounts. or use their bank account information as ransom. or use it to blackmail positive behavior.

ex4: please fill in your own of an example that's relatable to readers. include your own experiences or that of those you know if you feel comfortable. i will de-identify any information i use. i swear it.

If you've read this entire thing, thank you.

Again. I am sorry you were bullied. Truly. I hope you can let it go, move on, and become stronger, unlike me.

Sincerely,

me

2 Comments
2024/05/01
19:15 UTC

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My nephew with autism is getting severely bullied in school

Iā€™m frustrated. And wanting to know if thereā€™s anything I could do in this situation to help him. Also wanting to know if anyone has had a similar experience. My nephew is autistic and he gets bullied very badly at school. Today he told me he was using the restroom when a boy took a picture of his private parts over the stall and showed it to all the other kids. This isnā€™t the only incident heā€™s had, something like this happens everyday to him and the principal isnā€™t doing anything about it. The bully is definitely not getting punished either which makes him do it more when he knows he can get away with it.

2 Comments
2024/05/01
18:26 UTC

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Everyone hates me

Exactly what the title says. 14 FTM (not transitioning ā€˜til 18 and nobody really knows), everyone in my year actually hates me, and I donā€™t actually know what I did. Well I was friends with a girl that nobody liked for a while and I know Iā€™m kinda weird or off putting to some people but that shouldnā€™t warrant the way Iā€™m treated?

Iā€™m constantly treated more like an insect than a person. People in class hate sitting next besides in Maths and Spanish and last year a girl got moved next to me in English and everyone started laughing and she looked pissed out of her mind.

People just generally look at me like Iā€™m either a clown to laugh at or a bug on the wall. The worst part is that Iā€™m kinda part of the group of losers but everyone in my year is decent to my friends but just, not to me? Worth mentioning I have Autism (undiagnosed cuz my parents donā€™t believe in that stuff), so it could be a contributing factor. Iā€™m also not conventionally attractive (I have facial hair that I havenā€™t shaved off + Oddly shaped nose and kinda square head).

A low blow is that some of the well known ā€˜nicerā€™ people in my year donā€™t like me either. The people everyone loves all hate me and I canā€™t understand why. Is there something wrong with me? Is there something I need to change within myself? Iā€™ve always been told to just be myself and everyone will love me but everytime I am myself and not bothering anybody everyone hates me and bullies me.

Has anyone been in the same situation, if so how did you cope?

3 Comments
2024/05/01
18:24 UTC

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My daughter being bullied by her only friend is causing her to hurt herself

My daughter is currently in 9th grade and has experienced abandonment trauma. She has become very close with one particular girl who she has been friends with since elementary school. However, this friend has been repeatedly ā€œdropping herā€ in front of bullies and making up the next day, only to repeat the cycle. As a result, my daughter is going through a lot, especially since she doesn't have her other parent in her life. She all but has all 0ā€™s in her assignments since it started. She calls me at lunch almost every day now bawling her eyes out in a dark corner of her school. I have tried to talk to her about the difference between a true friend and a false friend, but she always responds through tears that she is her only friend and is all she has. I am at a loss for what to do, especially since my daughter has now started to self-harm.

3 Comments
2024/05/01
18:00 UTC

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Should I break up with my Boyfriend, because he believed one of my Bullies over me?

I know this post is quite long, but I really need some advice, so I'd appreciate if anyone would read this and tell me what to do. I wanted to post this in another Forum, but they dont allow people under 18, so I hope to get some advice here. Well, how do I even begin this? | '15F' am currently in High School. Ever since 5th Grade I was heavily bullied, by multiple people from my class, including spreading rumors, calling me slurs, breaking my stuff, cutting my hair and locking me in bathroom stalls and stuff like that. For more details about that, I have 2 other posts, where I explain this in detail.

Anyways, I had a ā€žbest friend" '16F' who also used to be one of my bullies, but I stayed with her, because I was emotionally dependent on her, since my mental health was really suffering due to the bullying and I also didn't get any support from my parents at home. During covid, I met a boy, lets call him Mike '16M', who is 16. Hes a rather tall guy, about 6'2 with brown hair and brown eyes. He is somewhat of a typical boxer, gym guy, most spending time working out and stuff like that. When he first added me on snap, I was kind of confused, because I knew he got a lot of attention from girls and most people didn't even know I existed. I added him back and he snapped me and we started talking. He was actually a really nice guy, we had similar interests and he always listened to me, when I had any problems. He eventually confessed his feelings for me and we started dating. Due to covid, we couldn't really meet up, but we texted everyday and played videogames together. Mike was in my class, but he was a year older than me, but he had to repeat a year, so now were in the same grade, which was nice. I opened up a lot to him and told him about the bullying, my mental health problems and everything, that was going on at home, since I don't have a good relationship with my parents.

Eventually, school started again and I was in the clique with my ā€žbest friends" and other bullies, since I didn't have any other friends and was scared of being alone. Yes, I know I could have hung out with Mike, but he was in a different friend group and I didn't want to annoy him and let him spend him with his friends alone. I had somewhat of a glow up during covid, so for the first time, people started to actually notice me for my looks and I got a lot of attention from boy in my grade or older boys. For some reason, the bullying also started to calm down because of that a little. Sure, there were still a lot of rumors about me, people said mean things to my face or broke my things, but at least the physical part had ended. The girls in my clique also got a bit nicer to me and I felt like my whole life would be okay again. Mike and I also got even closer and we hung out sometimes after school. I really loved him and still do. Some weeks passed and I left my friend group. This might sound random, but again, for more context, look a my last post, because this is a lot to explain. Anyways, I left my friend group, and cut complete context with my best friend. didnt say a word to her and gave her the silent treatment, when she talked to me. I told Mike everything and he told me, that he was proud of me, for finally standing up for myself.

Some days passed and everything was alright. I arrived at school the next morning and sat down at my desk, pulling my school books out of my backpack. I saw Mike walking up to me with two of his friends '16M and 17M', who are also older than me. I thought he just wanted to say hello and smiled at him, but he suddenly started screaming at me. He told me to ā€žstop pretending to be a victim" to ā€žgrow up" and that I was a liar, as well as multiple slurs like ā€žslut" ā€žbitch" and stuff like that. One of the other guys pulled me out of my seat, by my arm and the other guy took my bag, emptying all of it onto the ground, while ripping some of my books apart and breaking all of my pencils. Mike was just yelling at me the whole time. I was really confused and scared and didn't really know what to do, but couldn't do anything either. His friend was holding my arm pretty tightly and I am not a really tall girl, I'm about 5'2, and not very strong either, while he and his friends were not only older, but taller. When he finally let go of my arm, I ran out of the classroom, into the bathrooms and stayed there, crying. After school, I tried to text him, but he had blocked me everywhere. This went on for a couple of days, with him mostly just saying mean things when I passed by him and things like that. 3 days later, I was sitting at lunch on a bench, alone and he came up to me. I was fully prepared for him to yell at me again, but he just sat down next to me, not saying anything for a couple of minutes. He then turned to me and said, that he misunderstood the whole situation and that apparently my former best friends told him, that I was mean to her and stopped talking to her for now reason. I was confused and angry, because 1. he knew EVERYTHING. He knew how she bullied me and why I stopped talking to her and 2. he never had any contact to her or was friends to her. He didn't apologize, just explained himself. Before anyone calls me stupid, for what I did next, I want to say, that I was really in love with him and what he did, wasn't the worst thing anyone ever did to me. I told him, that I understood and that I was willing to forget what happened.

A bit more than 1 year or so had passed since then and we are still dating. On my last post, some people commented, that Mike is an Asshole and that I should definitely let him go, but I don't know. I really don't wanna destroy our Relationship over something like this and I could definitely use some advice.

3 Comments
2024/05/01
17:52 UTC

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My sister is bullying me.

I have a boyfriend. I have a twin sister. My twin sister wants a boyfriend and is struggling to get one. My twin sister pretended to be me and took my boyfriend out on a date and kissed him. They took pictures of it.

5 Comments
2024/05/01
15:53 UTC

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Iā€™m being cyberstalked and harassed

TLDR: A bully online is stalking and harassing me and I donā€™t know what to do.

Hey, 24 trans male here. So here goes,

My best friend and I are on this thing called Instagram roleplay. Cringe, I know. But basically the way we do it is that we use face claims which are actors or singers in real life, we just use them as what the character looks like. Then we create a backstory and make a cute theme with pictures and roleplay with other people. Itā€™s not those illiterate runs to you sort of roleplay either. Itā€™s very detailed and intricate. Third person, multiple paragraphs kinda stuff. The thing is, a lot of people on there try to use it like Tinder. Which is weird because that blurs the line between fantasy and reality. This happened to my friend.

So Iā€™ll call her Ella. The guy in this story, the bully, Iā€™ll call him Luther.

Ella and Lutherā€™s characters were dating. The two of them would post cute pictures for each other and do writings with them. Luther wanted to do s*xual writings and Ella really feels weird about that stuff so she wouldnā€™t like to. Hereā€™s where this starts:

One day, Luther was caught cheating on Ella. He admitted to it and made it about himself, all the sudden claiming to be Polyamorous. Ella isnā€™t poly and Luther never said he was. Either way cheating is cheating. I told him it was wrong and he really hated that. He hated how close I was/still am with Ella and I think it made him insecure. Anyways, he left and then came back and apologized to which Ella took him back because itā€™s just instagram rp right? Wrong.

On another infamous day, Luther sends Ella a tiktok. Ella opens it and it shows this thing that says ā€œfollow Luther on tiktokā€ Lutherā€™s out of character account. His personal account. And against her better judgement, she clicked it. Now she knew his face in real life. And she sent it to me. Guys. I know I shouldnā€™t have, but I was curious. And we were still a bit salty. We werenā€™t going to do anything. Just see what he looked like. Ella found out he has a boyfriend in real life. I donā€™t know if you guys would consider this cheating (doing s*xual roleplays with someone else and flirting with them) but eventually he started to flirt with Ella so much that he called her and was telling her he loved her. It was to the point that we thought thereā€™s no way him and his bf are still together. And I donā€™t remember how, but he found out that we found his tiktok.

Ella admitted to him that it was her and we apologized, saying weā€™d just been curious and havenā€™t been back on since. But he ran with it, making me the one that was the ultimate bad guy. We think this is because he loved to pull Ellaā€™s strings and always have her in his pocket. This guy is so manipulative. Heā€™s charismatic and acts very confident. Anyways, he started to come at me and make fun of me for certain things. We left rp for a bit and came back with different accounts. He found us somehow and we donā€™t know how. This all progressed to where now heā€™s found MY tiktok and I have no idea how. He makes fun of me in his group chat and the most recent stuff is worse:

He sent me an anonymous message asking how my mother is doing but using her real name with the correct spelling. I know he has my face and if he has my tiktok he knows where I live. I havenā€™t spoken to him or anything in months and months. I know some people might say ā€œjust ignore him or itā€™s just roleplayā€ but this is where Ella and I came to escape. It was a refuge from real life. Iā€™m so scared because heā€™s doxxed someoneā€™s address and Facebook before. He even messaged their family in real life. Heā€™s already outed me as trans. I donā€™t know what to do and I was crying so much last night, scared. I have more information if anyone is interested.

3 Comments
2024/05/01
15:13 UTC

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I am a high school cheerleader, and boys are bullying me.

Boys like my uniform. They keep on coming to me. They are lifting my uniform and look at my underwear. Sometimes they tried to open at look at my bra. They never bother me in classes when I wear regular clothes.

9 Comments
2024/05/01
14:53 UTC

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This story isn't about me. It is a prank a friend told me and he is angry.

My friend and his girlfriend are both youtubers. They like making videos together. But his girlfriend decided to make fake pee pants video on her boyfriend. She started filming. She poured water all over her underwear and leggings and couch. She called her boyfriend and said she felt embarrassed. Her bpyfriend told it was okay and we all have accidents. It is nothing to worry about. My friend decided she shouldn't be along on this. My friend actually decided to pee his pants on purpose not be an accident. It was recorded. She laughed at him and said it was a prank and she poured water on herself. My friend felt sad and embarrassed he was recorded peeing his pants for real.

3 Comments
2024/05/01
14:46 UTC

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Suicide due to bullying

23, I haven't been able to sleep since last 15 years due to nightmares of getting bullied in high school. I lost my eye sight and ability to focus.I had a really difficult time in high school. I was the only depressed child in the school. I peed on the bed in the middle of the night today. I was too weak to fight back when I was getting bullied. Principal didn't take any action when I complained about them. I haven't achieved anything in my life due to my mental health. I had a train accident in childhood so it's not possible for me to walk properly like them. They find it funny. I lost my job recently when I encountered high school bully in the office.

4 Comments
2024/05/01
10:06 UTC

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I feel sad and hurt my own girlfriend is bullying me.

I drank a lot of water. Maybe too much water. Sometime later I felt like peeing. I tried to run to restroom but before I could reach I peed my underwear and jeans a lot. My clothes were very wet. My girlfriend asked what happened. I showed her what happened. She laughed at me. She took out her phone and took picture of me. She even called me a baby for peeing my clothes. She said I am nothing but a big baby. She showed the picture to her friends.

5 Comments
2024/05/01
04:38 UTC

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I need advice on what to do in my situation

I'm a 14F who has been bullied my whole life. I'm not good at these things when it comes to writing on this app, but I always read these stories so I'm going to try to explain my situation. My whole life I've been bullied to the point of switching to multiple school. This year I started at a new school hoping for a fresh start because of the new school, I was wrong. During December was when I first started noticing the issue, there's this group of girls and a boy that are known for loving drama whether it's fighting, or just arguing. They know absolutely everything. With that being said someone who I barely even knew began to bother me such as taking pictures of me, laughing at me, pushing me, and it even got to the point where she had gone up to be during lunch break and pulled my hair and ran a brush through it. After that it got to the point where I had to physically defend myself by fighting her. Eventually that one girl left me alone but then more just came. Now in the present, it was a couple days ago when I, my friend, and someone who I no longer associate with, were in class when the person who I longer talk to who which I will refer to as "S" had grabbed my friend inappropriately on her chest and she looked genuinely upset so I had gone off on "S" telling her to not touch her like that and how she can't touch people like that. The next day somehow everyone knew about it and had kept going up to me asking "why did you get mad at S" and "are you going to fight her". With every single time I replied with "no I'm not going to fight her, I'm not mad at her I just don't want to be friends with her because she makes me uncomfortable" then continuing to explain why. So going back to another person who I'll refer to as "Z", so me and "Z" had been okay in the beginning of the year and she used to hang around the "weird kids" but then she started to hang out around the group I mentioned earlier and she completely changed. She started distancing herself from me and I noticed but I didn't think anything of it because in the morning before school opened and during the class I had with her we would talk like normal. Then theirs today, she had atleast 2 of her friends go up to me saying that she wants to fight me and how she'll beat my a**. With me being the person who doesn't like conflict I try to explain to her friends that I don't want to fight her. Eventually she comes up to me and asks me why I'm talking sh*t which I never was. We spent almost the whole lunch period going back and forth and it eventually led to the whole cafeteria being silent and everyone watching us. So I have severe social anxiety and when it comes to conflict or having alot of eyes on me I begin to freak out, so when it got silent and all you could hear was me and her going back and forth and some people shouting "beat her a**!" I began to stutter due to being overwhelmed and upset. As soon as we were finally seperated and I was able to go, I was in tears and had to call someone to pick me up because honestly, I am so scared to go back to school tomorrow and I need advice because I don't know what will happen if she does fight me. Because when I get upset I can't control myself, but I don't want to hurt her or get her in trouble because even though she doesn't like me, I considered her as a friend at one point and I don't want anything to happen to her.

What do I do??

14 Comments
2024/05/01
01:00 UTC

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Why do people think it's okay to say these things? I have gotten worse/other ones but don't have screenshots of them.

11 Comments
2024/04/30
23:55 UTC

8

In school girls bully me by stopping me from using restroom.

I am a trans girl. I want to use the girl restroom in the school. The girls grab me and take me to boys restroom and throw me in. This happens often.

7 Comments
2024/04/30
23:02 UTC

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Bullying and shooting in USA

In USA, there are many cases of shooting and suicide due to bullying. At the same time in Turkey, people don't behave like that. They are sincere. Is there any sincere people in USA? Because in the news it seems like the situation is a bit fucked up. How do you explain this?

3 Comments
2024/04/30
22:55 UTC

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My sister is my bully. I thought we would never let anything get between us. I thought my sister and I were best friends.

We were at senior prom. We both wanted to win prom queen. Both our boyfriends wanted to be prom king. While votes were going on my sister asked me to go to girl bathroom with her and she needed to talk. We went there. She opened a stall and pushed me in. She locked it and broke the lock leaving me stuck. Then she left. I kept on calling for help. No one heard me. But I could here the outside. I am serious. I heard my name and my boyfriend name be called. I won. I think my sister locked me here so she could take the crown. I could here people call me but I couldn't go. Finally someone came to the girl bathroom. I yelled for help. A girl broke the door down. I was free. I went back to the prom. But I didn't answer earlier. The crown went to my sister and her boyfriend.

I am so angry at my sister. I can't believe she would do this to her own sister.

7 Comments
2024/04/30
21:35 UTC

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My former best friend humiliated me.

We were friends for years. But we both ended up liking the same guy. We talked to the boy and spend some time together. The boy said he liked me more and asked me to be his girlfriend. I was so happy and said yes. My friend looked jealous and I don't care.

But the next day she texted the boy pictures of me in my princess underwear. She texted him a video when I was younger playing with dolls. The boy laughed at me and told me won't date a little girl. He left me. I am sad and cried.

3 Comments
2024/04/30
21:19 UTC

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Im getting emotionally bullied in college

Im a topper of my college, and I get so much hate because of that. It all started because I was always actively engaged in classes, I used to attend every class and ace every class test. I had a friend, he was the first friend i made in college. He ends up catching feelings for me, so i naturally started to maintain distance with him. this guy lives near the college campus, as so many other students. I live with my parents. He started spreading misinformation about me and my character, one word got added to another,And i started getting hate from my classmates i never talked to even once. He called me to apologise a little while back, and started telling me how he feels very guilty about everything. He also said that everybody hates you because its cool to hate on you, and everybody is jealous of you. I NEVER ONCE said that other people are jealous of me, and im better than anyone. But later on when we met in college, He introduced me to a friend of his by saying " remember her, she is the one everybody is jealous of " with a smirk on his face. He even told all my juniors who live near the campus with him, that i called him to apologise to him and how i was close to him until i met my boyfriend. WE HAD NOTHING GOING ON. i met my bf a year later i broke my friendship with him. My class thinks of me as an self absorbed arrogant betch now, i get panick attacks to even sit in class. Should i confront him? Its not like he is physically strong or anything, its just he has the power that majority people will listen to him.

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2024/04/30
21:18 UTC

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My teacher is my bully. My teacher made me pee myself in class.

I wanted to use bathroom but my teacher said no. I really needed to go and begged my teacher to let me use school bathroom. She continued to say no. During class I peed my panties and skirt. The whole class saw.

6 Comments
2024/04/30
20:55 UTC

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To complain to the police or not

Hi! Im a graduate student in the US, and started in Jan 2023, and had two girl friends who I was v close to, but only later I found out that they were using me for doing their assignments and writing their tests because the moment i made a bf, who they knew and loved at the start as well, they fully flipped and ganged up against me and stopped being friends in june. It really did hurt me so bad and I started going to therapy for all my trauma because they were telling the whole uni the personal things I told them and stories which I told them in confidence about someone harassing me, they began to spread these topics at parties etc. I stopped going out and started living w my bf at his apartment where guest is not allowed to stay longer than 6days.

These girls have been torturing me for a year now indirectly, for example, we have a whatsapp group of uni students where there's around 800 kids. I had given a cute small candle to one of the girls and they made a public dissing post about it saying "Candle for giveaway, absolutely dont want it on me, i dont have a car but i can come literally anywhere to drop it off" etc and that really hurt me. I still hurt and burn when i see their name somewhere or see them. Im an emotional person but had always been nice to them. They even spread rumors about my bf and they say the whole reason they broke up w me was because they didnt like him suddenly, and i dont regret choosing my bf over them because hes the best thing thats happened to me.

Now months later, I am subletting my room and put up a post in the whatsapp group and they ganged up and began to react with a laughing emoji to it, and 5 people i know texted me asking "why are random people laughing at your post"

I broke down and went to the uni police and they said they can call them like a warning saying "leave her alone etc" but im not sure if i should go ahead w that, i asked them for sometime.

My day is ruined and so is my boyfriends. Hes upset and broken because I am. Idk what to do, im conflicted because im not legally living w my bf and we are moving in exactly a week together to a nicer house. Im afraid what if they tell the management or the police about this? They are pretty shitty vindictive people. I know ist best to let go of things but ive been going thru this for a year now idk if its time i acted on it.

Attaching a screenshot below:

https://preview.redd.it/3r7p1trmjoxc1.png?width=1606&format=png&auto=webp&s=86d5cbe6bf879f7ca4b1694181f604ea9d89ff73

1 Comment
2024/04/30
20:53 UTC

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These 2 sisters who are my neighbors won't stop bullying me.

They often make me come to their home. I don't want to but my mom says be nice and make friends. Maybe get a girlfriend. I don't want either of them to be a girlfriend. Every time I come over they put on makeup, put me in a dress, put on earrings and make me look girlie. They give me manicure and pedicure. I argue with them but they won't stop. They won't stop treating me like a girl. They say they want a third sister and always have fun with me. I have no fun. I complained again to my mom but she says go have fun with them. I know you like like them. But I don't. When I get home everytime I remove all the girl stuff.

3 Comments
2024/04/30
19:20 UTC

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Iā€™m not perfect. Iā€™m not innocent either. Toxic kindness is real.

Hi everyone. You know me as a regular poster here. I give advice and all that jazz.

Today, I want to come clean to clear my conscience. Iā€™m not innocent. Now bullying is not always about harassing, assaulting or threatening others. Sometimes or most of time those ā€œnice peopleā€ can be nasty as well.

Kindness bombing or being overly nice to a point of people pleasing or suffocating the other person is a form of abuse and bullying.

I hurt my special online friend. I was very selfish for being overly kind. Then expecting the same level of overbaked kindness in turn! I got upset because I expected so much. I was very cruel what I said to them in our final chat message. I told them that ā€œ I loved them, but they were not loyal. Then I said I was going to delete my social media page as well as Reddit.ā€ My fault I acted based on emotions alone. However, by some miracle must be god or something. All of my social media accounts said error request cannot be processed. It must be a sign by the time. I was going to have a change of heart it was too late. My friend blocked me on everything! It happened so fast.

It was my fault for expecting so much. It was very cruel of me to expecting so much loyalty. It was not fair. It was selfish. It was manipulative. It was cowardly what I did.

In this situation, I was the bully. I was very cruel. Guys, I spent so much time on this sub calling out other peopleā€™s bullies. However, Iā€™m no different from the bullies.

I wish. I can turn back time, but I cannot. He must hate me now.

I love him in every universe and multiverse from the moon to stars. I realize that now.

I apologize for tricking you all to believing I was this kind person that was so against bullying. But I was the bully in the end. Im sorry please forgive me for being a phony. If you all want to insult me or whatever. Please feel free. I donā€™t think I should be giving bullying advice anymore after this.

4 Comments
2024/04/30
15:45 UTC

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Bully embarrassed me with pee my pants video

A girl from my class invited me(girl) for a sleepover. I accepted. We talked a bit and had fun. But when it was time to sleep she did something bad. While I was sleeping it was almost sunrise. Before I woke up she took out a camera and put it on stand. She got a water bottle and poor water over my pajamas and the entire bed. She started recording and woke me up. She said I peed myself and all over the bed. She kept on saying that and I believed it at first. I felt bad and started crying. I actually thought I really did pee myself. I was feeling embarrassed. She kept on I peed myself and should wear a diaper.

But I must have been foolish. I was being worried that I didn't notice the camera. She stopped recording and said it was a prank. At school in 1 of our classes we had to make a video presentation for an assignment.

I didn't know she switched the SD cards from my project and the prank video. I played the video and the entire class saw the video. She embarrassed me in front of the class. She cut the part where I noticed the camera. So everyone thought it was real. I really felt sad and cried.

5 Comments
2024/04/30
14:37 UTC

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Hello I'm a grade 11 student from Philippines. I need some insights as to how to handle a moron that seems to hate me.

A classmate of mine is really getting me real pumped, he's verbally abusing me and harassing along with his 2 paparazzi. It all started at a research that he belittle me by saying a grade 6 was even better than me just because I wasn't able to understand his explanation, ik it's on my side as well so I'm not leaving my faults aside. But getting called out on discord for a ping that's roughly 2 months old and cussing at me is just going to far. I got a proof and some other convo as well where he and his paparazzi are ganging up on me. Can someone please help me give this guy the trouble he's looking for? (Note please do not propose a fight for it's just straight up dumb getting on a bigger mess than the mess I'm in rn)

2 Comments
2024/04/30
09:34 UTC

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My ex-situationship + his friends and old fake best friends are bullying me

I am currently being bullied by two different groups of people. Iā€™m switching schools soon. Either the last day of school, or day sooner Iā€™m going to curse out both groups of people. Iā€™ve already come up with a couple cursing phrases, but I need more, especially for my ex situationship and his friends. Could you list some good ones please? Thanks!

4 Comments
2024/04/30
07:24 UTC

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Do you think most people are trustworthy?

Because of my life experiences, observing the terrible things some people have done to each other, and reading stories of people getting screwed over by others, I have become paranoid, guarded, and skeptical towards people. You don't know what agenda someone has or if they could change in the future. I feel like many people will do great harm to others just because of their ego and for their own benefit. What do you think? Do you think most people are trustworthy and reliable? Or are trustworthy people the minority?

This particular subreddit may be biased towards a negative view because of the nature of this subreddit, so please try to give an unbiased and fair answer.

10 Comments
2024/04/29
17:56 UTC

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15f, am I being bullied? How to stop it? TW

15f, am I being bullied, and how can I stop it? TLDR at the end

Hi, so Iā€™m a shy introverted, fat ugly kid with no friends or self esteem.The perfect target to be bullied ammirite? All self depreciating jokes aside, for a little context Iā€™m in a cooking class at school. I switched my periods in this class, I used to be in first and now Iā€™m in fourth. We do make food every Friday regularly, and Iā€™m in a group with all these girls that Iā€™ve previously tried to avoid. Theyā€™re definitely not my type of people. They smoke pot, all have different boys each week etc. Iā€™ve considered myself friends with two of them in the past at different times but one of them bullied me in a different group of mostly male kids 2 years ago.

In the food groups, I only work with them because the other three groups are with all boys, and Iā€™m obviously not interested because theyā€™re always messing up ingredients, burning food etc. But they take over. When I first switched classes, I brought up how mean they are to me and how Iā€™m left out doing nothing and the one who bullied me years ago said itā€™s ā€œjust how they areā€. Iā€™m usually left to wash the dishes or wipe the countertops, and when they do ask me for favours they talk to me very condescendingly. I had to measure a cup of chocolate chips once for the group, and I used two half cup measurements. They asked me by name ā€œis this a cup? Are you sure?ā€ In such a condescending tone, even throwing my name in there like Iā€™m stupid. The other day they were talking about some place involving the other girl from the group I considered to be friends with before, and they wouldnā€™t stop talking about it, and referring to it secretively, so I had to ask. The one that previously bullied me said in such a condescending tone, ā€œyouā€™re not closeā€ like I was totally irrelevant to them all.

The other day, we were talking about grade . Of course the one who previously bullied me spoke about the previous bullying she did with the group of the boys from the past, laughing about it and telling the other girls like me and her were best friends rekindling old memories. She said that she was traumatized from some drawings I used to do on the classroom windows, saying how sheā€™d cry and have nightmares, yet I was the one crying in the bathroom and pretending to be sick just to stay home. The first time I had to cook with them I cried home on the bus and my dad told me to punch them in the face next time. Iā€™ve also since skipped a few periods in that class just because of how they treat me. He also suggested talking to the teacher as a more civil option, but I wouldnā€™t know what to say as Iā€™m super shy and donā€™t like asking for help.

I try to never boast about myself, but Iā€™m a nice person. I always offer to help them, and yet they walk all over me like a doormat. Iā€™m never mean to them, I donā€™t tell them to kill themselves like they tell me to, I help them with their assignments etc. I have a feeling the one who bullied me previously is just desperate for attention, but I just donā€™t know what to do. I never want to go to school anymore and it hurts because I paid to be in the class and it used to be my favourite when I had it first period each day. I also have mental health issues and I cry when I think about myself as a person, and I think Iā€™ve been considering self harm again because of them.

TLDR: introvert low self esteem loner in a cooking class with the meanest girls around who walk all over me when Iā€™m nice to them and one of them previously bullied me 2 years ago. How to fight back ?

3 Comments
2024/04/29
13:39 UTC

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Meeting old bullies

Hi, Iā€™ve been invited to a class reunion by an ex-classmate from highschool. I was bullied through those years and was in a very bad mental state (because of other things too). Now itā€™s 10 years later and I feel like Iā€™m getting much better mentally (been to therapy) but I donā€™t know how I feel about this reunion. We were teens so I donā€™t feel anger anymore but I got so anxious by the invitation. Has anyone had similar experience/ been in similar situation? Would you go to such event?

10 Comments
2024/04/29
13:25 UTC

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