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Message: <blockquote data-quote="d20Dwarf" data-source="post: 2180416" data-attributes="member: 314">This is the interesting part of my own experience...I wasn't picked on, even though I was definitely one of the oddest people at my school. Maybe it was my size, dunno. The last time I can remember being picked on was junior high, by a bully whose name I don't remember. He was inordinately strong, and a total loser (smoked, dumb as a brick, spent all his time looking for ways to act like a <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ). We had a confontation in off-season once that got a bit physical, but didn't devolve into a fight (as he probably wanted). My solution? I started really taking advantage of off-season, working out hard every day. By the 5th 6 weeks, I was nearly as strong as him, and we had to spot each other on the bench, because we were the only ones other than coach that could. He quit picking on me, he still hated me, and he wasn't afraid of me, but I think he started to have a bit of grudging respect for what I'd done.Now, I didn't change for him, I changed for me. There was a situation in my life that I didn't like, so I changed it by making positive changes in my life rather than by self-destructing, withdrawing, or becoming negative by fighting. I didn't even remember that until this thread got me thinking, and now I think it was one of the moments in my life that molded me into someone that believes in making positive changes in order to mold life to my liking.</blockquote>

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