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⌈ Secret Post #2041 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Petty Grudges You've Held Since Childhood

[kathkin]

Oh man this brings back memories.

The popular girls in middle school used to surround me in a circle at recess with their arms locked so I couldn't get out and just call me names until I cried.

I've been there. D: Thankfully in my case a teacher intervened and they stopped doing it, but I never forgave those girls for it.

And the boys thing - never had that specific thing happen but I was that girl. Like, people used to come talk to me in a way that made it clear that they found the very idea of being friendly with me utterly hilarious. And bring on the lifelong trust issues! :D

Re: Petty Grudges You've Held Since Childhood

[demishock]

Sorry to dredge up the unpleasantness. :(

I'm glad you had a teacher that put a stop to it, even if just the once is enough to leave a lasting impression. My teachers weren't that attentive, I'm afraid. For me it just went on until the girls decided it wasn't fun anymore (because I graduated from crying to screaming swear-words at them) and they moved on to other things.

Yeeeeep. :( That sucks. I always hesitate to tell that story because it sounds so "10 Things I Hate About You" but it really did happen. XD; But yeah, "Let's talk to/laugh at the attention-starved loner-girl!" was several people's favorite pastime. @__@;

Re: Petty Grudges You've Held Since Childhood

[kathkin]

I think in my case the girls honestly didn't realise they were upsetting me. I told my mum, she told a teacher, he spoke to the class, and then they must have twigged that I didn't find it funny. That's often the way with bullying. ETA: This came to mind when I was first typing up the comment and I think perhaps I should get it off my chest: one of the popular girls once accused me and my friends of bullying her. At the time I thought she was full of shit since we were just joking around, and she was one of the popular girls so we couldn't possibly be actually hurting her, but now... I feel really bad. D:

People sometimes don't believe me either - if they've not had the 'let's talk to the loner-girl' thing happen to them personally they often thing you're just being paranoid, but it happened to me alll the time for the best part of a decade. :/

Re: Petty Grudges You've Held Since Childhood

[(Anonymous)]

...In retrospect, maybe younger-self-me did the right thing on not encouraging or responding enthusiastically to the popular kids that would be kind of flirty/suddenly interested in me out of nowhere.

Back then I was all like "no, you blew it, they wanted to be friends, what's wrong with you", but looking back on it and remembering what those kids were like even with their friends, I think I dodged a bullet, even if the overtures of friendship/flirtation were genuine.

Re: Petty Grudges You've Held Since Childhood

[kathkin]

It can be really hard to tell sometimes whether someone's honestly trying to be friends with you, making fun of you, or talking to you because they feel sorry for you. I say again: hooray for trust issues!

But yeah, either way it probably worked out for the best. None of the people who used to do that to me were people I'd actually want to be friends with if they were sincere!