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I am officially done playing defense with Cyber Bullies

Bran-Bran

I have been bullied since the second grade. I have been bullied in school, after graduation, and now online too. I am a TikTok-er. I'm in no way popular but I do post regularly. And while I understand that my posts may or may not be for everyone and not everyone has to like my content, it becomes very hurtful when people judge everything my entire channel before even watching it.

  • "Bro, why you gotta post such cringe"
  • "Just don't post content like this. It's better for you and the people"
  • "Yo, why are you a grown ass adult and posting content like this" When asked what's wrong with the content "Everything"
  • "A grown ass adult with Race Cars on your walls and everything posting content like this"
  • "Delete Ts"
  • "Delete Lebroskie"

To name a few comments I've gotten in the last month.

Seriously, I thought I was done being bullied when I got my last Swirly in high school 8 years ago. And what's harder is people explain the more unusual comments that I don't understand as people bullying me because I'm autistic as if they were making a joke.

I'm really about ready to just start blocking and reporting people from my social media all together. I've put too many hours into my accounts to have to feel so tempted to deactivate my account or feel bad because some punk wants to ruin my day just because of my content isn't as great as theirs.

Sometimes I feel like saying I have Autism is just the equivalent of wearing a "Kick me while I'm down" sign

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  • Whilst it's far easier said than done, ignoring it is the best bet. Try to convince yourself that it's not anything to do with you (because it feels like 99% of the time it probably isn't!) it's usually a specific subset of bitter individuals offloading that bitterness anonymously on other people behind a screen. So many of the nicest people you couldn't imagine anyone passionately hating still get absolutely deranged comments. I've grown up most my life on the Internet, it started being more widely accessible when I was young and I never left it so I developed a bit of a thicker skin online as opposed to my more fragile personal self. I've never been open about my Autism anywhere so I guess I've been 'masking' online so I'm not sure how I'd maybe feel if I was given comments aimed at that since it feels very private I guess. I've met plenty of trolls in my time, I had a bit more confidence making YouTube videos (video game gameplay with voiceover) when I was younger (in the late 2000s) and I got the occasional troll comment. I never replied to them and disregarded it as them being the problem. I'm the type who always remembers the worst and yet even I can't actually remember the content of any troll comments because I really did disassociate them as being about me. It's gotten to the point I don't even delete or bother to report them anymore because I am able to mentally disregard them entirely at this point.

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  • Whilst it's far easier said than done, ignoring it is the best bet. Try to convince yourself that it's not anything to do with you (because it feels like 99% of the time it probably isn't!) it's usually a specific subset of bitter individuals offloading that bitterness anonymously on other people behind a screen. So many of the nicest people you couldn't imagine anyone passionately hating still get absolutely deranged comments. I've grown up most my life on the Internet, it started being more widely accessible when I was young and I never left it so I developed a bit of a thicker skin online as opposed to my more fragile personal self. I've never been open about my Autism anywhere so I guess I've been 'masking' online so I'm not sure how I'd maybe feel if I was given comments aimed at that since it feels very private I guess. I've met plenty of trolls in my time, I had a bit more confidence making YouTube videos (video game gameplay with voiceover) when I was younger (in the late 2000s) and I got the occasional troll comment. I never replied to them and disregarded it as them being the problem. I'm the type who always remembers the worst and yet even I can't actually remember the content of any troll comments because I really did disassociate them as being about me. It's gotten to the point I don't even delete or bother to report them anymore because I am able to mentally disregard them entirely at this point.

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