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Well I´m only 20, so elementary school, middle school, and high school bullying is a pretty recent memory. I got made fun of for anything imaginable . . . being shorter, smaller, skinnier (imagine!), wearing glasses, knowing the answers in class, bringing pita breat sandwiches to lunch (so popular now!), you name it, I got teased for it. I came home crying just about every day. My loving, supportive, and most of all PRESENT parents hugged me and told me that though I might not believe it at the time, things would change. When you get older, they´d tell me, you´d fine your real friends are you brothers, your cousins, and the kids at Church. I didn´t believe them then, but of course they were right. By the time high school came, I had found my real friends. I never had to bring a gun to school, kill myself or anyone else, or write a feel-good bull**** article/novel/memior to ´´heal.´´ I just got over it. Why don´t they teach that anymore?

Truth...

Firstly, how does one get "over" anything at 20? The fact that you recited your schoolhood problems, denies your very statement.

Secondly, if you really underwent bullying, physical, social, or otherwise, you never forget it or "overcome" it. I am on my eigth decade and I and those I schooled with,that were so treated, have never forgotten.

Thirdly, when in the company of the "bullies", which is very seldom, one can see guilt on their face and hear it in their speech. It is very uncomfortable being in their presence, not for my sake but for theirs. It is quite evident they have not forgotten.

I got made fun of for anything imaginable . . . being shorter, smaller, skinnier (imagine!), wearing glasses, knowing the answers in class, bringing pita breat sandwiches to lunch (so popular now!), you name it, I got teased for it.

I wish. How about “I got slugged for anything imaginable, glasses were broken, pita breat [sic] was spit on, you name it, it was trashed.”?