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this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2024
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I had people try to bully me. I was tall enough that most kids thought I was strong (I wasn't, I struggled to build muscle even when I was a gymnast, but they didn't know that), so they almost never tried anything physical. Furthermore, I was kinda too ADHD (or possibly autistic) for insults to work. They just didn't register as something I was supposed to be offended by. In my head, that was just someone's opinion or someone teasing (in hindsight they weren't, but at the time I thought they were); for the former, "opinions are like assholes, everyone has one and most of them are full of shit" while I interpreted the latter as someone just trying to play around.
People tended to just give up when they realized that they couldn't find my buttons but I could find theirs very quickly.
As a small child, I was probably decently capable of holding my own enough to deter physical bulling. Starting in 8th grade, I was a good size to deter bulling and not big enough people took it as a challenge. So, never had anyone pull anything physical with me as far as I know.
Also, was weirdly on good terms with a diverse crowd for reasons unknown to me. /shrug