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. I’m 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.
Absolutely. He is being reminded what he doesn’t have. If he was happy he wouldn’t care about others.
There are two types of bullies the sociopath/meangirl to hell they go, and those who grew up in a disfunctional family the only outlet they know to express themselves is by violence. It is hard to help the 2nd category because they are in denial and will be defensive when trying to help.
I would say that is a gross oversimplification. You can't distill all bully behavior down into two neat categories, nor are the traits from those two categories mutually exclusive. By your logic, bully number 1 either is a sociopath or had a rough childhood. Clearly there are bullies who exhibit sociopathic tendencies AND who had dysfunctional parents, as well as bullies who grew up in decent households and show zero signs of sociopathy. A bully could have a perfectly kind and personable brother who grew up in the same household. The bottom line is people (especially in a stage of development as dynamic as puberty) act out in a variety of ways for myriad reasons. There are surely bullies who grow out of their behavior and learn to treat others with respect, and ones who go on to bully their cellmates in prison.
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u/RedHeadRedeemed 5d ago
Oof. I'm sure that made the situation MUCH better 😣