baku:
the worst memories of being bullied is when ppl would pretend not to be bullying you and ask you questions and u thought they were just asking u stuff but they were actually laughing at you the entire time and u had no idea bcos you were young and you didnt understand why people would be mean to you when you didnt do anything wrong.
I spent a lot of my childhood in a constant state of “this is a trap but I don’t know how”
This stayed with me. Sometimes when people are nice to me, I still think they have bad intentions.
then when you didn’t believe them when they were serious they would get mad at you
ALL OF THIS
This coupled with being bullied a lot from afar, like ppl constantly laughing at you down the hall or from outside a classroom so now whenever you hear someone laughing in the distance you think it’s at you.
All of this was my entire school experience from pre school to 11th grade. I’m still suffering to this day from the sheer trauma of my experience as a child and teenager
I’m 26 now and still really fucked up from years of bullying. It took me almost 3 months to realize I made an actual friend because I was waiting for the rug to be pulled from under me.
And forget about dating back then tbh
I’m sorry you had to experience that. I was bullied. It sucked. It’s no surprise to learn Research by Fight Crime/Invest in Kids reports that 60% of boys who bullied from first grade through ninth grade were convicted of at least one crime by age 24 and 40% had three or more convictions by age 24.
“This is a trap but I don’t know how” 100%.