Yes. I've been bullied. I had my hair cut off to a short haircut due to trichotillomania. She never did take me to the doctor for it, she just gave me a short boy hair cut. then from age 9 to like 13 I was mistaken for a boy and bullied endlessly. when I say bullied, I mean name calling, put downs. The kids in my specific class were decent so they it was the other classes which acted like that.
Anyway, I didn't really go to HS, and I wasn't exactly bullied in College either but due to many reasons I never graduated.
I think of gas-lighting is bullying in a way, and when its a bunch of people gaslighting you, acting like you are the problem when they clearly know that you are innocent a good person etc, I think that's bullying. So, I guess you can say I've been bullied by my family my entire life.
I love to remember this thing I saw on the internets, where these kids on a bus were verbally assaulting, bullying this woman, a bus monitor, telling her all kinds of horrible stuff. And someone recorded and it got out to the internet. And people were so offended and felt such compassion for this woman, that they set up an account for her and sent her money, so much money that she could do whatever she wanted with. They sent her like more than 700, 000.00
So this is what I think these days when I think of the bullies. Even the bullies in my own family. If people heard how you talked, people would be so upset they would donate money to me. There would be an outcry against you. People hate you.
So, regardless of how my family lies on me, treats me, or what other people have said or done that was cruel, if the world knew, they would hate it and and love me. To be loved for a lie is nothing. So I feel vindicated in that. I think that every day. The only reason these people get away with it is because there is no spot light on it. Look how people are turning against bullying now. Its terrific. When i was a kid, it was like, punch the bully in the nose, aka (don't be weak). Now they educate the little ones in school not to bully. My 7 yrold has been taught what it is and that its wrong. So, I kinda take that compassion they sent that woman to be the way people would really feel about me. I feel so much better knowing that people are against it. People are against the montsers. I know this now. I didn't know this then.
I'm sorry to read the no tolerance rule being used to completely ignore the reality. Its painful how people can twist things into the polar opposite of what its supposed to be.
I was also always reading books etc. Shy quiet etc. But really I just never clicked with most people because I was fearful because I was living in an entirely different world than them.