Writer's Block: Eye for an eye?

[trystinn]

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Not to sound like a complete asshole, but I wasn't regularly picked on as a child. The New York kids I grew up with knew better than to pick on each other and once we moved to Arizona, I was too much of an unknown for any serious attempts by the overly sheltered teens at school. Which isn't to say there weren't a few feeble attempts (i.e. the Jews have curly hair to hide our horns, Christ Killer and things like that) but when someone is culturally and religiously sensitive to curse words (really, they call it cussing) the last thing you do is pick on someone who has been able to curse like a sailor practically from birth.

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[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

I only got picked on from fifth through eighth grade. Before that, I lived in a more diverse, low-income neighborhood, where kids were generally more accepting of one another (prior to that, in my previous town, I think we were just too young to start the bullying). Then when I moved to a nicer area, the kids started acting like assholes. I was the new kid AND the fat kid. I was an easy target. But eventually, most of them grew out of it and I got more self-confidence and more friends.