My first proper introduction to how horrible people can be was around 1975 at the age of 13 ,someone I thought was a friend all be it a very casual one ,same age, played at his house ,lived across the road and at the same school decided to play a prank on me ,I got a phone call one evening after school from the least popular girl in our year and after a bit of chat she asked if I wanted to go out with her ,I said yes ok ,after the call ended it rang again this time my "friend" was on the line laughing about how dumb I was ,he had got his older sister 18 at the time I think to pose as this other girl to fool me into agreeing to go out with the least popular girl in our year ,who I thought was ok anyway ,I was obviously picked out as an easy target ,likely to bring success to the venture or perhaps they thought I would be laughing with them . Now I was lucky I grew up in a large village /small town and would have been subjected to much worse bullying in a city probably would not have coped at all and I know others will have suffered way worse in terms of violence and intensity so I know I was lucky ,I had my share of physical and mental bullying but this was another level of deception, planning and organisation and it utterly crushed me smashed what little confidence I had and could not understand why anyone would do such a thing and taught me not to trust ANYONE ,this is a long forgotten memory and only recalled it after reading a book on aspergers about adolescent naivety ,now what I would like to know is, is this one of the signs of aspergers or was I just naïve and dumb . I would also be interested in others with similar tales to tell , phycological bullying always seems to cut deeper .
