The other day, I was confronted by my past.
A girl I went to high school with in Bathurst left a message on my public Instagram page: “Did you hide behind being a bully too … because of your body image issues? You were so horrible to go to school with.”
This really made me think about my past and what I was like at primary and high school. Yes, this girl was right — I was a bully.
I went to an all-girls high school in the 90s and man, it was bitchy.
There were around 80 of us going through puberty, all in one courtyard. As you can imagine, there were some nasty things that were said and done. I never got to see how boys bully each other, but us girls can really be ‘mean girls’.
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I was bullied at school too, i never in turn bullied another girl. I felt really uncomfortable reading this. I'm not sure if it was written to help others or more to justify a comment that made her look less then ideal to her fans. I'm sorry, but I'm so over people "realising" later in life what a bully they were in High School....you knew what you were doing at the time and I'm sure you know what your doing now in the workplace.
I was bullied at school and it left me with life-long scars.
The alpha girls' group would be my 'friends' one month and then target me the next. This cycle continued as it was a small primary school and I really wanted to be accepted. They fixed on my search for acceptance, and over a year or two, made my life hell.
High school arrived and either there were more bullying choices or the group broke up. Either way, I wasn't a target anymore.
However, the bullying kicked my self-esteem to pieces and also affected my confidence in choosing friends. Over 50 years have gone by, and I still do not trust my judgement of people. I stay away. It's safer.