Have you ever been bullied when you were young?

Tweet

The closest I've come to being bullied was when I was in my freshman year in highschool. A boy from the other class drew an ugly girl's face on the blackboard and filled it with lots of dots (because I had pimples back then and I wasn't exactly pretty). He then wrote my whole name (first name and surname) under the drawing. He did this just before an all-boy class came into our room. I was so embarrassed and close to tears, a friend of mine offered to erase the drawing on the blackboard for me but I stopped her. I wasn't traumatized by that incident and I never cursed nor intentionally ignored that "bully". I wasn't really a confrontational person. I wasn't vengeful either. But as months passed, I felt vindicated because good things kept happening one after the other. I got voted president of my class, I made it to the honor roll, I won several contests (and had my name posted on our huge bulletin boards with congratulatory captions) and I gained the respect of my classmates and teachers. Once in a while I remember that boy. The last I heard is that he got into drugs and hasn't accomplished anything remarkable in his life yet. So, have you ever been bullied before?