Possibly The Reason For My Social Issues.

my grandad used to have a saying never judge a person by the colour of their skin or the way they look, judge a person by the way they treat others especialy those less fortunate.



that has stayed with me all my life and when i was in high school some of the things i saw made me so angry i had to speak out or as was usualy the case stick up and fight.



i know violence is not the answer but sometimes it is the only thing that can stop friends or yourself from being victimised and bullied.

the third day i was at school i stepped in for a kid i did not know who was being picked on for being different. and i made the guys who were picking on him pay. they started throwing the fist but they did not know how to do it properly. so i finished it for them.

i made a few bad enemies that day but more importantly i made one good friend.

and that was not a solitary incident.

pretty soon i had made a lot of good friends who believed in the saying my grandad had taught me.

people who wanted to be just an honourable



i had been taught boxing from a very young age my dad and grandad had been boxers and growing up in a large family had given me the tools to deal with bullies of any size.

and once it was known that bullies would not be tolerated it became a good school to be at for pretty much everyone there was the occasional occurance but by the time my year got to be the oldest.



i was proud to be a part of a school where people could be different and not have to worry about being picked on by fools who thought it was tough.



i must admit i was pretty proud of most of the kids in my year at school they were all pretty decent. and by the time we were the oldest kids in school it became a place were most of the kids did not accept people being persecuted picked on or bullied.



you guys are right something needs to be done and in australia there are programs in place at most schools now that have been implemented because some kids were bullied that bad that they acctualy commited suicide. you will never stamp it out entirely.

because some people not just kids feel better about themselves when they are putting some one else down. now that says a lot about there self esteem.



for bad men to prosper it only takes good men to do nothing not sure who wrote that but it is surely true.

i truely hope you find what ever it takes to trust and join in with people again because if those people have taken that away from you then they should be ashamed of themselves.



lolo good on you for seeking help we all need help sometimes.

i think that is why i like EP you can be yourself without having to worry about anything or anyone

I can really relate to the whispering and laughing continuing to make you uneasy. Junior high was a nightmare for me too. I was bullied and unlike you I went outside at lunch and that was not the safe place to be. I am older now and it still bothers me. This kind of crap really hurts, its the worst kind of social group dynamic ever and I really hate that schools don't do more to stop it. What happened was real and totally unfair. If you need conselling, then so be it. Get those a-hole's voices out of your head, that's what I'm doing now!!

life can be unbearably brutal for some people. Then you have some people who go through their lives with everything given to them and tons of friends and love. Life is not fair. You have to learn POSITIVE ways to cope with it. It can seem almost impossible to cope sometimes, though.