Were you ever bullied as a child? Tell a story of a time you were bullied, or a time you observed someone being bullied?
I got bullied in elementary school. I was the “fat kid,” and very uncool. I wore sweat suits everyday. One boy was kicking rocks at my friend Michelle on the playground and I yelled at him to stop. So, he turned his attention to me. He even peed in my indoor shoes in the cloakroom one day. The teacher and principal launched an investigation and questioned every boy in the class. They couldn’t pin it on Philip but I knew it was him. The whole thing made me mortified; the fact that someone would do that to me, having my classmates pulled on by one to an impromptu interrogation room with the shoes boldly displayed on the center of the table, and the fact that he got away with it. The remarks about my weight and appearance resulted in an eating disorder that I struggled with until university.
What about you?
Prompt from: Piccadilly’s 200 Writing Prompts