Hard to fight back when three guys hold you down and punch you in the diaphragm. I was 11, they were 14.
My kick to the groin was preventive. Don’t wait until it is too late. And even if I had lost any of those situations, I’d rather go down fighting than just swallow it. Btw, all those bullies were taller and heavier than me. Be quick and ruthless and the size difference often doesn’t matter.
Sometimes it’s better just to stay alive and unharmed, even if it means you’re afraid.
That’s the thing, when not fighting back you seldomly stay unharmed. Again, I’d rather go down fighting.
Just to be sure I’m not giving a false image of myself: I never picked a fight. I never provoked a fight. I avoided escalating situations whenever possible. But at every school I went to, as soon as somebody tried to bully me, I retalliated once, and that always was enough.
They told me they were going to beat me up. It was not during a break. The teacher who should have held that class was sick or something and the school messed up organizing a replacement. When no teacher showed up, most of us just went back out into the school yard. I was alone at the playground, which was furthest from the school building. Those three kids came towards me in a triangular formation and just told me they were going to beat me up. I preemptively kicked the front kid as hard as I could and the other two ran off. I left the kid lying there and went back to the class room. One of them actually reported me to a teacher. Somebody from the school talked to my parents and told them that I reacted very violently to a situation but that they thought the other kids provoked it (at least one of them was a known trouble maker). I had an awkward conversation with my parents several days later that violence is not OK even if the other people are in the wrong blah blah. I never got into any real trouble over it.
I’m not saying you’re lying I’m saying that in the majority of cases, bullying isn’t solved by kicking a random kid in the groin.
in some cases it might actually make things worse, as people might be out for revenge, or cause you to become a social pariah, or even get into trouble with the police.
Implicating what I told wasn’t real!? It is/was.
My kick to the groin was preventive. Don’t wait until it is too late. And even if I had lost any of those situations, I’d rather go down fighting than just swallow it. Btw, all those bullies were taller and heavier than me. Be quick and ruthless and the size difference often doesn’t matter.
That’s the thing, when not fighting back you seldomly stay unharmed. Again, I’d rather go down fighting.
Just to be sure I’m not giving a false image of myself: I never picked a fight. I never provoked a fight. I avoided escalating situations whenever possible. But at every school I went to, as soon as somebody tried to bully me, I retalliated once, and that always was enough.
Lol what do you mean by 3 kids ‘came at me’? Because kicking someone in the nuts for walking towards you sort of seems like provoking a fight.
They told me they were going to beat me up. It was not during a break. The teacher who should have held that class was sick or something and the school messed up organizing a replacement. When no teacher showed up, most of us just went back out into the school yard. I was alone at the playground, which was furthest from the school building. Those three kids came towards me in a triangular formation and just told me they were going to beat me up. I preemptively kicked the front kid as hard as I could and the other two ran off. I left the kid lying there and went back to the class room. One of them actually reported me to a teacher. Somebody from the school talked to my parents and told them that I reacted very violently to a situation but that they thought the other kids provoked it (at least one of them was a known trouble maker). I had an awkward conversation with my parents several days later that violence is not OK even if the other people are in the wrong blah blah. I never got into any real trouble over it.
I’m not saying you’re lying I’m saying that in the majority of cases, bullying isn’t solved by kicking a random kid in the groin.
in some cases it might actually make things worse, as people might be out for revenge, or cause you to become a social pariah, or even get into trouble with the police.
Maybe. It worked out well for me 🤷🏼