Bullying Experience

BULLYING EXPERIENCE Name Institution Affiliation Course Date of Submission Bullying Experience Life at Middle school signified the start of a new chapter in my life. My experience at elementally school had not been a good one in relation to my experience with bullies. I had to take a long winding path that increased the distance threefold, just to avoid bullies who hang around the roadside. I thought to myself that middle school would be different, and it surely was. Life there a great amount of more independence, that was my experience at elementary school. The feeling of being surrounded a new circle of friends was fulfilling. Many were good; however, there were some bad ones. I was in a click which was held together by some commonalities among us. We were all good friends; we stayed off the radar as much as we could, not the most popular click, and so we were not talked to much. There are many aspects of the school that I remember with fondness, like the congeniality of the teachers. The staff was great, but soon my overall fondness for the school would change to become one rough experience that prevailed for long. His name was Dwayne, my bully. Dwayne had a click of made up of some extremely mean and obnoxious friends, most of them tall, but there was one short one. I still do not remember when the tables were turned between me and Dwayne and he decided that I was no longer his friend, and I became someone that he always wanted to pick on. I was 12. I recall one of my friends whispering tom my ears that Dwayne wanted to fight me. I do not know where the contempt steamed from but soon afterwards it was confirmed to me over and over again when I learnt from my friends the things that Dwayne was saying about me. Now he even wanted me dead. I know too well why he had picked on me. Having been a victim of bullying before, I suffered from anxiety especially when confronted by bigger boys even when they meant well. Moreover, I was a rather lonely child. Dwayne was a little taller than me, and he was way muscular than my lean frame at that time. He therefore intimidated me, and the last thing that I wanted is to have to fight him. Dwayne fits well into the bully-victim information perfectly well, having experienced peer rejection in his former school. Further, he came from a family where the father was abusive to a point where his mother had taken restraining orders for him. He had academic difficulties and also engaged in rule-breaking behavior. Dwayne had a problem controlling his feelings of frustration and anger, he was always full of pent up emotions that he expressed through threats and at times physical aggression. It was only getting worse, for soon the prank phone calls started coming in. Some nerve wrecking heavy breathing on the phone. I was a home alone kids in the afternoons. It was a frightening experience for me, a total nightmare of thinking of how I would have to confront my bully at some point. At my age then, I felt that there was no easy way out of the situation; I was even trying to act more mature for my age, telling an adult was out of the question, I felt it was immature for my age. I only hoped that somehow it...