I always thought bullying only happened on screen in the movies and TV shows that we watch. Then I saw it happen right before my eyes in school, where a bunch of boys were smacking my classmate’s head just for bringing a smelly sandwich for lunch.
That’s the thing about bullying: the culprits don’t even need a sensible reason and the herd mentality can make everyone gang up against the poor victim. When Reddit user likeistoleyourbike asked, “What’s the most ridiculous thing you were bullied over, and what prompted the bullying?” netizens gushed over with these answers!
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#1
I have a cat without a whole tail, yea they made fun of me cus of my cat. Life can be weird.
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#2
I was bullied because my dad died. Kids can be cruel.
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#3
Littering. They bullied me for complaining about their littering.
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#4
I was bullied and called gay because I had a best friend.
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#5
I jumped over the legs of the prep clique while they were blocking the path. This caused a pad to fall out of my pocket. They told everyone. We were all female middle schoolers.
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#6
That you can’t see my upper eye lids easily when my eyes are open. They just get kinda shoved under my eyebrows and hidden out of the way. I was called a freak and a mutant. For having hooded eyes.
I don’t even.
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#7
My surname is Holmes, in primary school they’d call me homeless.
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#8
I was bullied by girls because i prefered dj snake more than bts,so they started calling me gay and you have poor choice of music i prefered to stay away because lack of tste is a symptom of covid.
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#9
Being respectful to the bully’s dad. He started bullying me after that, when I stood up for myself he said ‘I know I can’t take you in a fight so I’ll just stab you!’ and showed me the knife.
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#10
Strawberry cream cheese on my bagel. 2nd or 3rd grade. Even at that age I was baffled.
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#11
I was a kid who liked Star Wars, so I wore Star Wars shirts. That’s when it started.
Two decades later, those who did the bullying are suddenly “huge fans” and wear vintage style shirts in their social media profile photos.
Well then.
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#12
My nose. It is wider than the average western nose. I am part Thai, part Indonesian. They used to call me “stopcontact”(=wall socket) in primary school.
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#13
Enjoying Minecraft. Their justification was the “terrible” graphics of the game.
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#14
I was in the gifted/talented class, otherwise known as the “Nerd Herd”. I moved in during 5th grade. At my previous school it was cool to be in G/T. At my new school it was horrible. Life from 5-8 grades was both terrible and also where I met some of my closest friends.
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#15
I was bullied for wearing the color black. They would throw bibles at my head and call me a demon.
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#16
I was bullied because instead of playing soccer, or softball “like most girls” I took horse back riding lessons, and my family had horses.
#17
My grandfather died suddenly, and it affected my mental health badly. I got bullied in daycare because I wanted to make friends and not feel the loneliness that his death caused. People thought I was clingy… I was eight years old, and to this day, I still like to hang out with people older than me because I don’t trust people my age.
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#18
In second grade, I misspelled my last name on the very first assignment. This caused my teacher to mispronounce my name when returning said assignment. Not in a funny way or anything. It didn’t, like, create a new meaning or sound like a different word. Just a simple mispronunciation. I was teased for the next four years about it. Kids just chanting my mispronounced name at me. It didn’t bother me at first, I thought they sounded dumb making a joke about nothing. But their persistence paid off and it really got toe after a while. It just stopped in sixth grade. No reason. Just stopped.
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#19
I’m a girl and enjoyed playing with cars as a kid,apparently it wasn’t something ‘cool’ according to some boys in my school.
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#20
I was bullied alot so I’m sure I was an awkward kid and an easy target. I got bullied having hairy arms, hairy legs, for “talking white”, etc. But one time I wanted attention and for some reason I told kids at a camp I was at that I didn’t brush my teeth and I got bullied for that. Lol I have no idea why I did that.
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#21
I didn’t shave my legs at age 10.
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#22
I got bullied for wearing high waters. To this day, I still don’t know what they are.
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#23
I was very lightly bullied at age 12 by two other 12 year olds who thought I didn’t swear correctly.
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#24
Cinnamon infused toothpicks back in 6th grade. The cool kids had toothpicks soaking for months. They laughed and made fun of my week-old toothpicks, and then they shunned me.
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#25
When I was in highschool I was playing MTG at dinner with my friends. And a little kid pass by laught at us… We says aren’t you guys to old to be playing with thoses kinds of cards?
We asked him how old he was, and he said he was 11… We we’re 16.. so we just look at him and tell him that he’s not even old enought to buy them. (Since on the package it says 13+) …
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