Are there any people with ASD who weren't bullied @ all?

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07 Dec 2010, 11:05 pm

Ex: Im one of the few AS individuals who never got bullied ever in my life.

yeah I know AS people are often easy targets but just did it by ignoring my thinking and my fears. I feel mentally stronger that way. :)

but in general are there some people with ASD who never ever in their lives got bullied?



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08 Dec 2010, 1:35 am

Secret_Helper wrote:
Ex: Im one of the few AS individuals who never got bullied ever in my life.

yeah I know AS people are often easy targets but just did it by ignoring my thinking and my fears. I feel mentally stronger that way. :)

but in general are there some people with ASD who never ever in their lives got bullied?


I was not bullied.



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08 Dec 2010, 11:18 am

Same, actually, being quiet won me a few friends pretty strangely.
To be honest though I was more or less the loner in the corner peole didnt mind me. Though having said that, by the time I left school no-one actually did know me -.-
Hope it goes better at College :P



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10 Dec 2010, 12:25 am

I wasn't bullied. People just ignored me for the most part.



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11 Dec 2010, 6:07 pm

I wasn't. I was very lucky with my school, since it didn't have any culture of bullying. It was not cool to bully people, and anyone who did would have to stop soon because of peer pressure.



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11 Dec 2010, 6:31 pm

I never got bullied. People in my area are too full of themselves to care what someone else is doing.


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11 Dec 2010, 10:02 pm

Up through high school, I was definitely bullied. But in college, I haven't been. Unless you count the facebook flame war where a guy got pissed at me for saying that something he said sounded socialist, not because I was calling him a socialist, but because making note of the fact that it sounded socialist was somehow Anti-Socialist. Ok then....



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12 Dec 2010, 12:03 am

I've only been bullied a few times, which must be pretty unusual. My problem is that I seem to attract creepy people looking to intimidate me, but they don't usually mess with me for any length of time; one exception is a student two grades below me aspiring for maximum macho-ness who sexually harassed me during a stupid, required semester class. The teacher was horrible, utterly vapid, and didn't show up to class most of the time; she didn't notice. I was also targeted by a few girls in another stupid required class (physical education) for a semester. (also in a sexual way? why???) Before that, it was a boy who rode the bus with me and his girlfriend, who was my friend when the year started. To summarize, I've never been bullied outside of stupid required semester courses and the 6th grade schoolbus... Luckily, those were few and are all taken care of now. The culture since 10th grade also doesn't seem to promote bullying as much at all as before.

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Up through high school, I was definitely bullied. But in college, I haven't been. Unless you count the facebook flame war where a guy got pissed at me for saying that something he said sounded socialist, not because I was calling him a socialist, but because making note of the fact that it sounded socialist was somehow Anti-Socialist. Ok then....

Weird argument, haha... There was a creepy anti-revisionist Communist in one of my 9th grade classes who claimed to support all the more notorious "communist" dictators. He would speak glowingly about Cuba. (I believe he was looking for social disapproval.) It was rather odd.



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12 Dec 2010, 2:07 pm

And for the record, the comment I said sounded socialist was because I said that I wasn't sure whether I wanted the UConn soccer team to play their first tournament game at home on Wednesday before Thanksgiving, or get a bye then and play at home on Sunday when I wouldn't be able to watch. This student then said "Hope for what's best for the team, not what's best for you". Which totally sounds like "greater-good socialist". I was just joking, but apparently he really is a socialist. Weird. But the problem is, I'd had such a reputation in high school for being the crazy kid, that that kind of stuck with people, but now I have a clean slate.



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12 Dec 2010, 9:09 pm

I'm not being bullied in high school (which I can't see changing,) but I was bullied a fair bit in primary school.

So I guess I'm a mix :P


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15 Dec 2010, 2:01 am

Never :)

I was told years later the other kids were scared of me LOL!

I'm still not sure why. *shrugs*


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16 Dec 2010, 7:28 am

I didn't really, but I was homeschooled until I went to high school so I avoided most of the prime bullying years.

I had people who would pick on me/mess with me and I had people who didn't like me or thought I was too "prudish" and were jerks to me, but not real bullying. I've always been extremely sarcastic and dry so people leave me alone for the most part. Anyone who started trying to pick on me had a retort quickly shot back at them.


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16 Dec 2010, 8:15 am

I was not bullied at school. All the chavs liked me because I was funny and made everyone laugh with the completely random stuff I came out with. Ah, the good old days... Now I'm a wreck :?



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19 Dec 2010, 4:04 am

I was not bullied in middle school nor high school nor pre school. When I was six and seven I wasn't bullied often and it was worse when I was eight but it was mostly the 6th graders that picked on me and kids who lived on the other side of my block that weren't in my grade including my own friend, and then at age nine it was mostly the second graders. By 6th grade the bullying was very worse and may have gotten more worse if we stayed living in Washington. I may have started to get beaten up or having my stuff getting taken and hidden, who knows.

I know tons of kids get bullied and I don't know anyone who was never bullied. It depends on what they mean by bullying when people say they were bullied as a child.

But I don't get bullied in my adulthood and have never faced workplace bullying. I have faced internet bullying but it's rare now. I have never faced cyber bullying.


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19 Dec 2010, 12:01 pm

I'm not sure I even see the issue with bullying. It's part of life. The stronger always attack the weak, the ones who want to be stronger try to look stronger by picking on the weak. The few actual leaders protect their flock. We're animals. I don't see why this is such a bad thing. *confused*


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20 Dec 2010, 5:29 pm

Cicely wrote:
I wasn't bullied. People just ignored me for the most part.

Pretty much this.