I can't say that I was ever bullied. Ever.
That's not to say I couldn't have been a potential target.

I was bullied for one grade then, predictably, became the bully. Learned my lesson soon enough, and ended up a pretty well balanced kid... Or so I like to think.

Not always. I was always taught to let things slide and ignore people like them, which I did completely for the first few months. I didn't give them a reaction except to ignore them. That just made them more intent on getting to me. If someone really wants to hurt you, they're going to do it. No reaction can cause a more severe action by the bully. Every situation is different because everyone bully and every victim is different.

Though I'll be honest... I always wondered why they chose me. These people were once my "friends". And it happened with more then one group. (Though the second set of people had a few gang members in it, so there's no real surprise how that one ended. I'd consider that a little more then bullying... the police told me to leave the state to save my life.) I guess I should thank them though... I now don't give a flying crap what people think of me, have a few very close friends that I'm happy with, no drama in my life, and I know my self worth. Just wish I could have learned all that with a little less trauma.

I've been on both sides of bullying, though I only regret being on one.

holy hell i teared up, i had a friend commit suicide because she had autism, was openly gay people threw him a dumpster and threw paper in with her that said dyke,it was terrible

When I started high school, about 14, I was pushed away and ignored by a group of alternative people I hung around with for a while. When they weren't ignoring me they would say quite a lot of mean stuff, and I didn't have many friends back then. In being pushed away from that group though, I met my best friend, who asked me one lunchtime why I was sitting on my own, and from then on he stuck up for me. Even when we were 14 he was well over 6 feet, no-one was going to mess with me when he was around. That group turned out to be a bunch of druggies anyway. Not one of them stayed in education for long.

I had some problems in my first year of uni with the people I lived with (two boys) being noisy, trashing the place every other day and being general idiots. That was sorted pretty quickly when I poisoned my own food with laxatives to find out who was stealing from me, shaving foam-ed the boy's room despite a locked door, and marched down to the accommodation office and showed them the broken glass in my feet from the bottles they'd smashed. Hell hath no fury like a woman who finds out her ice cream is stolen.

I was, a little bit in each grade, then it escalated and I was bullied quite a lot in 8th-10th grade (13-15 years old), I haven't been bullied since I started high school though.

I have been both bully and bullied.

I was a short red head who got straight A's in all my classes.... so yeah..of course. I think they tried to get under my skin by calling names at first, but I just shrugged it off mostly. Nothing ever physical came of it. Of course, this was many decades ago... things have probably changed since then.

I had few friends in primary school, I was a bit chubby but not enough that I break down sweating after running for 5 minutes.
Eventually I got in a few fights with people I hated but I still was getting [censored].

During that summer I went to the gym and lost weight and gained a bit of strenght.
Then I went to Secondary, but most of my class went to the same school.
I flipped this guy over a bench in P.E so people in my class started respecting me and I became the "Alpha-Male" in my class.

Or you became the kid who's overly defensive.

Not really, no... I'm actually a bit surprised by the seeming prevalence of bullying in other areas as it's never been much of a problem where I live. I've grown up around nice people... of course, I'm mostly in the AP courses with other AP students and the like, so...

I've had some issues with other things that may be seen as connected to bullying, but are still a completely separate thing, yet those are all long in the past.

Occasionally in Middle School and High School, but I stood up for myself and they quickly stopped.

^this.

Show a little power and people will cower.

*ignores grammar mistakes*

Yes, grades 1-5 just normal kid stuff, then in the 6th grade when I went to Catholic School.....God I hate even thinking about that time in my life. I didn't just get picked last, I didn't get picked at all. The first time I walked over to the team who would be forced to take me they would say "We didn't pick you.", initiate laughter. I hated them and they hated me, easily one of, if not the worst part of my childhood. Looking back the things they did were pretty minor, but 11 year old me had a [censored] ton of raging hormones to ensure his pain.

Embarrassed to admit that I was the bully up until about grade ten. I still feel bad about how mean I was in junior high.

Yes, mostly Elementary with a good deal of middle school (I won't really get into details here) where I was much more of a door mat back then and a lot weaker then.

Now I have learned to stick up for myself which has improved my outlook on things a great deal. Of course now I take the slightest provocation and insolence against me as something to be eliminated with the utmost harshness with my first thought usually along the lines of taking my boot to their face. Normally however; or at least for me personally I find that confronting them can get them to be much more docile (the people at my highschool will much rather insult others for the vast majority) or at least more reluctant to start things with me. Now I fear that I have a bit of a rage issue where I may have gone overboard to another extreme but I will say that I haven't been bullied for years and do not bully others as others have done unto me.

Never been bullied in my life so far, we'll have to see how grades 10,11 and 12 treat me. I assume good as I'm double the size of most high schoolers.

I think grade 10 is the end point of bullying.

And well in advlt hood it is non existent.

It's a major problem in advlthood: workplace bullying is well documented as often getting really out of hand, for example.

Of what does workplace bullying consist? I don't doubt it exists, I've just never experienced it. Well, aside from a snide remark or an accusation here and there... but that just seems like people being people, to me. So what is workplace bullying?

Which is precisely why I think people shouldn't respond too harshly to bullies. I suppose I was pretty lucky in that I didn't get physically bullied unless the kids bothered to get together in a large group and that I could ignore the verbal bullying on the basis that I didn't take it too much to myself since I had friends in other places where their group mentality did not apply as much which of course was a great confidence booster. So perhaps it would be wrong of me to say that I truly know the exclusive feeling of being bullied but I'd still say bullies just need time to grow, but not to have revenge extracted upon themselves. And that those who are being bullied should rather aim to teach them empathy than to hurt them in return.

It does not matter who you were. It's all about who you are now and what you aim to become.

The exact same as school yard bullying, except with grown ups.

Not for your milk money, but for the career power plays, favoritism, inside track smoozing and a chance at a corner office, to name but a few.

Most of us don't get wiser as we grow up, just older unfortunately..

When you grow up in Galway, you start fights for no reason.
Someone started to bully me in first class, we fought at lunch.
And thats the end of that.