The bullying I was subjected to did not occur on the playground, but rather on the school bus.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), bullying affects 20% of high school students and cyberbullying affects 16% of high school students.
Surveys compiled by the CDC also show that 33% of students ages 12-18 who reported bullying at school and 27% of students ages 12-18 who reported cyberbullying indicated that they were bullied at least once or twice a month.
You know how jokes are often funny because they are based in an ugly truth?
I had a new realization of that phenomena while watching Bill Maher's new stand-up comedy special "The Decider" on HBO the other night.
I'm 40 years old now; it's been something like 30 years since that sort of thing last happened.
Still, the experience has not left me, it sucked so much.
I don't think about it much these days, but I know that having lived through those experiences has shaped me as an adult, and not for the better.
The experience of getting your face smashed in by bullies (or taunted by them, or pushed, or shoved, or excluded, etc.
) has got to be an almost universal sort of thing; something that many others who have endured similar experiences can perhaps recognize and respond to.
In this spirit, I offer my self-disclosure (and hijack Bill's) as seed for discussion.
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