33 People Share What Prompted Others To Bully Them As Kids, And The Reasons Might Baffle You

Talking to a girl someone was interested in and got bullied. She was a neighbor, a girl I knew my whole life. I passed by her house and she and a guy our age were talking in the driveway. I walked up to say hi. I was in a sling from a baseball injury. Her friend starts pushing me and trips me and I fall. I get up and told him I couldn't believe he is picking on me while I can't defend myself and he would pay. I got better and kicked his a*s. Then we became friends.

I was bullied for wearing the color black. They would throw bibles at my head and call me a demon.

I was bullied because instead of playing soccer, or softball "like most girls" I took horse back riding lessons, and my family had horses.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I didn't shave my legs at age 10.

I got bullied for wearing high waters. To this day, I still don’t know what they are.

I was very lightly bullied at age 12 by two other 12 year olds who thought I didn't swear correctly.

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.

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+) ...

Was too skinny.