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The one thing bullies can't stand is when people stand up to them and verbally confront them. They count on us keeping quiet and being upset. I'm in university now but in high school I would stand up for others e.g younger girls when they bullied. No one expected the shy, wallflower to confidently confront them and so they backed off and some even tried to be nice to me.  At the time I wasn't brave enough to stand up for myself but it works.

 

When a few bullies teased a girl for her race I said something along the lines of "Oh wow, I actually feel sorry for you. You think you're cool now making fun of others but you're not intelligent and won't pass the year, let alone get into university. You'll be pumping her gas in a few years. You must be so insecure to pretend to strangle yourself for having to sit next to a black girl. Your parents probably don't love you otherwise they would have raised you better."

 

Ok it was a little cruel and I shouldn't have joked about gas station attendants .. theres nothing wrong with them. I was just so mad as they girls were being racist pretending to strangle themselves and shoot themselves for having to sit near a black girl. Their behaviour made me sick. The funny thing is after the lunch break they were trying to be all nice. Seriously some of these people only respect you if you put them back in place.

 

So stand up for yourself and you'll see how insecure these people are. Sorry you had to go through all those awful experiences.