... I was bullied and beaten mercilessly in middle and high school. I quit high school for college. The physical abuse ended, but my cluelessness did not. I was "asked" to leave college twice (under threat of permanent expulsion) so it took me nine years to graduate.
So maybe not "lucky," just different.
My recent stay in the psych ward, locked up under 24 hour a day supervision (you can't even go to the bathroom for more than five minutes that someone's not knocking on the door asking if you're okay, and there are cameras in your room...) didn't really increase my self-confidence, but I did learn some new tools for dealing with my madness and I was prescribed some new meds that seem to be working.
I dunno why we so often think it's somehow our fault when we are bullied, but we do. I remember teachers telling me to "be a man" even as I was bleeding, as if that would solve the problem. They ought to have been doing something about the bullying.
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