School distress

 Still not recovered from it nearly 50 years later. The bullying. #ActuallyAutistic #Schizophrenia #Schizoaffective I didn’t mention it to a MH pro till quite recently. I thought ‘It’s minor compared to physical/sexual abuse. I’m weak for not getting over it’

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  • I was bullied in primary one and two. I was the smallest in my class and there was a girl who had the same name as me, and she picked on me and encouraged others to do the same. They used to pick me up and swing me around without my consent, and one time they swung me too close to the boundary wall and I hit my head and I blacked out. I woke up on the floor of the staffroom with a bunch of teachers standing over me wondering if they should put witchhazel on it. I was sent home as normal at the end of the school day. No one told my parents. I didn't tell my parents because I kind of assumed the teachers would and anyway I just accepted it as part of normal school life. I moved schools soon after and thought the bullying was the cause, but recently discovered that it was just because my mum had thought I looked a bit unhappy at school. She discovered that I had been bullied only when I brought it up last year and she went "WHAT?!" 

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  • I was bullied in primary one and two. I was the smallest in my class and there was a girl who had the same name as me, and she picked on me and encouraged others to do the same. They used to pick me up and swing me around without my consent, and one time they swung me too close to the boundary wall and I hit my head and I blacked out. I woke up on the floor of the staffroom with a bunch of teachers standing over me wondering if they should put witchhazel on it. I was sent home as normal at the end of the school day. No one told my parents. I didn't tell my parents because I kind of assumed the teachers would and anyway I just accepted it as part of normal school life. I moved schools soon after and thought the bullying was the cause, but recently discovered that it was just because my mum had thought I looked a bit unhappy at school. She discovered that I had been bullied only when I brought it up last year and she went "WHAT?!" 

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