• Neuromancer@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It’s not hard to guess the kid is weird, which is why they were bullied. It is an assumption, but I think it’s a fair assumption.

    I suspect the parents told them they were non-binary. When I was in third grade, I wanted to be a cat. Hell, if my parents told me I could be one, I might have thought I was a cat.

    Instead, they told me to play with my transformers and stop being weird.

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      1 year ago

      Honestly, my heart goes out to the kid. I had some very “weird” (read: abusive) parents growing up, and I suppose that was about the age I figured it out.

      Mine would make up medical problems and constantly pull me out of class and lied to me about not having a middle name for years and years before we went to live with my older brother at 16 (little bro came too, he was 14).

      Circa 2004ish I tried to reach out to my HS counselor about being bullied. She offered to do mediation between me and the bully, that made things much worse.

      • Neuromancer@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Same here.

        I’ve always heard the argument it’ll toughen them up. I just think it’s abusive.

        I know we can’t make a life free of bullying but we should try to minimize it.