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normanthreep ◴[] No.42158183[source]
well this is excellent news for the people of hn, the largest community of childhood bullying survivors on the internet

it's never too late

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tamimio ◴[] No.42159574[source]
I was never bullied and was the popular kid, and honestly, I don’t like the concept that all these ‘nerds’ you see nowadays were bullied back in school and it’s why they became nerds, in fact, I never heard of school bullying outside of the US schools, or generally North Americans ones. Maybe movies contributed to that, or reinforced such a phenomenon?
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1. amatecha ◴[] No.42160764[source]
I was a nerd well before I was bullied. I remember some of the earliest bullying I experienced - this older kid called me "Macintosh" because we had a Mac computer at home (no DOS/Win) and this kid thought that was worthy of harassing me about. It was weird because that kid wasn't much of a computer-savvy person but just found something "different" to call out. /shrug