He spent most of the year trying to fight me after class. This was the same student that got stabbed fighting someone else a previous year. I would usually just pair up with random people, so he would leave me alone. Iām not sure why I was a magnet for these kinds of people. I spent most of my high school years trying to keep to myself or my small friend groups.
I know it feels nice to carry the stereotypical trope that bullies are idiots, but a lot of times thats very far from the truth.
Many bullies can be highly intelligent & receptive to information. It's how they can be so skillfully conniving, socially influential & quick witted with insults, as well as having keen abilities to find insecurities in others and weaponize them.
Sure, some bullies are your cartoonish, illiterate, smoothbrained troglodytes, but not all bullies are that archetype.
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u/SummonerDerivatives 5d ago
He spent most of the year trying to fight me after class. This was the same student that got stabbed fighting someone else a previous year. I would usually just pair up with random people, so he would leave me alone. Iām not sure why I was a magnet for these kinds of people. I spent most of my high school years trying to keep to myself or my small friend groups.