INFO POST TIME! BULLYING AWARENESS AND PREVENTION
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SPECIFIC TRIGGER WARNINGS: suicide, depression, abuse
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SPECIFIC TRIGGER WARNINGS: suicide, depression, abuse
IMAGE CONTENT: Nothing graphic, just a few stock photos of kids looking lonelyThese posts are a "safe space" to ask questions you might otherwise be too shy to. Please do not reply to ( Read more... )
There was was a kid in grades 1-3 who went through that at my school (that whole touching any object or person touched by bullied victim made you 'contaminated by association' bullshit).
She was also only referred to my her full name, never just her first name (kinda like how Charlie Brown was picked on and only referred to by his full name); the only way I can make sense of it was that this was the kids' way of dehumanizing her, in the sense of reducing her to like a "boogie man legend" like Jason Vorhese instead of just another kid no different from any other kid. And I reckon that, in turn, made it easier to rationalize being cruel to her.
It's super surreal and sobering to read first-hand feelings and grief from the kind of bullied kid that I, I'm sorry to say, was too much of a coward to stand up for, and only observed from the sidelines, among all the other kids who were too chicken to intervene.
That's the real insidiousness of bullying: when other kids do nothing, for fear of having that bullying turned on them (or worse still, joining in on the bulling to fit in).
I'm sorry that it happened to you at all.
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