I honestly feel like "get over highschool" is a shitty thing to tell people and I hate how normalized its become. Like bullying is traumatic. I personally have forgiven my bullies because they were kids when it happened*, and also because Senior year I got to know some of the "popular kids" and realized they were human and many of them quiet nice and also realized that my friend group of nerds had a lot of asshole qualities between us, and for a long time I thought that was the "right thing to do". Then I tried sharing that opinion in a room of people with bullying trauma and got fucking verbally destroyed for it and realized like, trauma is real and telling people to just get over it is fucked up.
*AND because I spent my young adulthood on a Survivor forum where my opinions on the contestants being colored by my highschool experience was something that got me bullied on THERE for, plus contestants that brought up their highschool trauma were shit on, so it was very uncool to still care about highshool so I adapted because autism.
There was a period of time when, if I was just out walking alone, I'd be TERRIFIED of seeing kids my age, just minding their own business. We don't talk enough about how victims of bullying have a lot in common with victims of child abuse.
I honestly feel like "get over highschool" is a shitty thing to tell people and I hate how normalized its become. Like bullying is traumatic. I personally have forgiven my bullies because they were kids when it happened*, and also because Senior year I got to know some of the "popular kids" and realized they were human and many of them quiet nice and also realized that my friend group of nerds had a lot of asshole qualities between us, and for a long time I thought that was the "right thing to do". Then I tried sharing that opinion in a room of people with bullying trauma and got fucking verbally destroyed for it and realized like, trauma is real and telling people to just get over it is fucked up.
*AND because I spent my young adulthood on a Survivor forum where my opinions on the contestants being colored by my highschool experience was something that got me bullied on THERE for, plus contestants that brought up their highschool trauma were shit on, so it was very uncool to still care about highshool so I adapted because autism.
There was a period of time when, if I was just out walking alone, I'd be TERRIFIED of seeing kids my age, just minding their own business. We don't talk enough about how victims of bullying have a lot in common with victims of child abuse.
Child abuse is still child abuse if done by other children.
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"Bullying neurodiverse people is justifed because of gamergate" is a terrible take.