>>50698308I kind of agree and disagree. I got bullied pretty bad in elementary through to middle school and I can't understate how much I was put through, all the while teachers refused to believe me because my complaints were so frequent. I still had friends, and I tried to pretend to be as normal as possible with it until I beat the shit out of a guy 2 years older than me when he made fun of my grandma dying a few days before.
No one bullied me after that, but I was arrested, examined, ostracized and put on anti-psychotics, which I was kept on for 4 years because the doctors kept saying I was showing signs of a "dissociative disorder". All my friends thought I was dangerous, and I ended up being schooled by tutors and completing online courses for college until I wanted to get my masters.
I've got a good job now, my own home and I can go on big vacations multiple times a year if I want, so I'm set, at least materially. The problem is that the only people I talk to irl are my family, who recognize that it wasn't my fault and my work friends, who have no idea what I did. If I wasn't bullied, I doubt I would have had the singular focus to succeed and move away from my shitty situation, but at the same time, I wish people weren't such cunts to me so I could have had fond memories of my childhood instead of things that make me flinch when I remember them.
