I Have Shaped Who I Am

I am sure every sixth-grade class had at least one kid who was the focal point for bullies. The class was a place for bullies to be in “their own spot”. In the fifth grade, I fought against my inability to make friends, so I did things to garner attention. I thought that if I had enough of the class’s attention or the teacher, I would be safe.

The bullies do not attack children who possess self-confidence; social and street practical understanding because they know it would be a losing battle. Most surprise in my case is the bounce and competitiveness that children from free-range environments often apossess. But can dominate about as it the only thing that may grow into independence. Normally academically ahead, socially behind it straight academically, socially behind oftentimes they are years behind in development in comparison to their peers. Of course, when parents excessively infantilize their children, it makes them socially, emotionally, and psychological delay. Even though these children earn high grades, but only if taught to do so, they lack common

In the middle of elementary school, I was starting to be embraced upon a culture of conformity and embarked on adversity trials that helped form my sense of literacy on social interactions and self-identity. The children started to bully me with hurtful words and emotional pressuring me into questioning my own self-identity. I was grown to see the best in others and be kind, yet as time passed I was left hurt without warning. Ever since I was first born, I have always been skinny and my height has only increased towards my approaching adult years. When the physical defense option when being bullied is utterly useless, you are left with a hard conundrum. Towards the last few days of elementary school, I was outside trying to play with the other children. I recently broke my arm in a scooter accident and wasn’t able to play very well, despite I was equally terrible with two fully functional arms. I remember trying so hard to fit in with the “cool” kids at the time, by attempting to play with them. Instead of simply saying I was not welcome, one of the boys through the football as hard as he could into my broke arm. The amount of pain I felt made me burst into tears, as I try to hide behind a tree to hide the shame of crying. As a child, you want to be accepted and feel wanted by others, yet I wasn’t staying true to myself. I was not a great athlete and those children did not like

When a child, teenager, or adult is bullied it can create major social issues. These social issues can be a number of things such as anti socialism, aggression, or social anxiety. Social issues develop because the victim is put in powerless positions that leave them defenseless; so as a defense mechanism they try to avoid situations with others in fear of being bullied again. Usually anti socialism is the first thing victims of bullying turn to. The victim’s believe if they are not social they cannot be put into situations that they were in previously that lead to being bullied. However, not only are they scared to be social but they lack the basic skills to make friends. Another way victims deal with bullying is through aggression. This is very common in bully victims they become bullies themselves. This is because they feel powerless in certain situations so they try to gain power in other ways. Most of the victims results to becoming a bully to others to feed the need for control. One of the last ways a victim deals with the bullying is through social anxiety. This might be because of how severe the bullying was. The victim feels that if they are social, or mess something up they will be bullied again. Along with that, there may be triggers in their everyday life and they may not be able to properly handle their reactions. All of these are lifelong things that the victim must deal with, and if the victim cannot

According to a study, in nearly 25 countries most adolescents who were bullied were associated with poorer psychological and emotional adjustment.

There are many things in the world that can shape a person throughout their lifetime, such as events, games, songs, books, and even people. In my opinion, the following can determine who people become: the environment that they are surrounded by and other people. Other people and the environment are in important in shaping a person. If a person isn’t surrounded by people or weren’t in that environment they wouldn’t be who they are. My parents, childhood bully, teachers, and even my first friends were the people who affected my development. If it weren’t for them, id be somebody else.

This viewpoint may seem as an easy and simple solution to someone who has not experienced the full, frontal effects of bullying, but to the abused, it is the hardest solution to choose. Many teenagers have been bullied with harassment during school and cyberbullying outside of school, which proves that bullying has evolved from a kid getting beat up at school to non-stop emotional harassment at home, via the internet (Faris 1). The evolution of bullying not only has evolved into more ways a bully can harass another person but it also has increased how long a person can get bullied, therefore kids feel like they have no safe haven. "Victimization is also significantly related to suicidal ideation, social isolation, anxiety, and depression" (Faris 1). Anyone who has ever been subjected to bullying can develop future feelings of self-doubt, feelings of worthlessness, or in worse case scenarios ideas of suicide and death (Faris 1). Yet, if a victim chooses to not allow the bully to continue to take advantage of them, then scenarios previously stated can be halted. The effects of bullying on young people's mental health are serious and should not be taken lightly, but it does not have to define who that person is or what that person can become if only that person would choose to not let

My favorite quote to someone who is being bullied, “ignore the people who is always talking behind your back, that’s where they belong, behind you - unknown.” You often see girls getting bullied over a guy or maybe even clothes because they aren’t name brand. That is sad. Previously, in my English class we watched a movie called “Wonder.” It is about a boy who starts school for the first time going into middle school. He had a face condition, and some kids were scared and made fun of it. He could not help he was like

Social interactions in school are very important to children. Through interactions with peer groups, Children develop their emotional stabilities, social skills and positive self-concepts. Therefore, the experiences of alienation from peers can be traumatic for children and damage their emotional, academic and even physical developments. According to the U.S Department of health and Human Services (DHHS), 1 in 3 U.S students day they have been bullied at school. In the United States, the bullying problems are increasing. According to Bullying Statistics,

Children with social insecurities will become the easiest target for bullies; but social acceptance will deter allot of bullying is disabled students are integrated into mainstream classrooms. What needs to be realized by educators and parents alike is when the child is acting out and people don’t know how to respond; children are more likely to become confused and unsure how it is they are supposed to behave (Shaddock, Giorcelli & Smith, 2007). Shaddock, Giorcelli & Smith (2007) recommend running some social skilling programs in the classroom; not only will disabled children benefit from these sessions but they are great for other students too. Social development leads to cognitive development; if children are not comfortable within the social environment, they may struggle to partake at educational activities and lessons (Shaddock, Giorcelli & Smith, 2007).

There comes a point in life when most young students are bullied. Some students experience worse bullying than others and suffer more greatly from it. According to US studies, “One out of every four students (22%) report being bullied during the school year. (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2015) 64 percent of children who were bullied did not report it; only 36 percent reported the bullying.” (Pacer’s, 2016) Most children do not report it, leading to their self-esteem dropping to an all-time low. Whether the child turns to God or has a friend as their saving grace, it is important that they get through those troubles.

Attention Getter: By show of hands who here would want to go back to high school? Besides the facts that high school was boring, lame, and you were probably going through your awkward growth spurt, kids can be really mean and a little bit too honest. Many of them are just plain cruel. Chances are that high school was the hardest time in your adolescent years not only because there were so many changes going on in your body, but because you had to deal with bullying. Either you were pick on because you were too short or too tall, too fat or too skinny, you have a big nose, or probably you were just plain weird. The journal Pediatrics for Parents claims that twelve million children are bullied each year (Mansbacher 24). I

As a tiny third grader, you would be under the impression they would be all joyful and without a care in the world but I wasn’t one of those kids.. I was bullied all through third grade from getting named called to even sometimes getting physically hurt. My whole life changed back in elementary and as I became older the bullying continued to get worse and with that my anxiety did too. I slowly became quiet whenever anyone tried to talk to me. Constantly hoping the teacher wouldn’t call on me because I was afraid if I answered wrong I’d get laughed at. Stopped eating at school because I was afraid people would start calling me fat again. The worse part of it all was this knot I would continuously get whenever I had to present in front of my classmates or teachers. Gradually, as I became older nothing actually changed except for the fact that I wanted this stupid fear to stop because it was beginning to mess with my everyday life.

Since I was in Kazen Elementary I was always on my own never really talked to anyone but I did had friends. Although, just like every little kid likes to hang out with the cool kids instead of the kid being bullied so they won’t get bullied. However, it didn’t bothered me because after school; my friends and I always get together and play video games or play outside. Yet, in fourth and fifth grade is when everybody started to not be around me no more, talk to me, and even my friends. Who I thought they were my friends but really they were just being bullies all the time. When I entered middle school there was some people being bullied including myself. So, I made some choices in my life either do something with myself or just stay the same as who I am. I used to be a fat kid and that was easy for people to call me names. Nor, little that they know I started exercising with my cousin everyday in the United Campus and always pushed myself to not look like I used to look before. After that, people see me in

Elementary school was supposed to be easy, right? I could say academically it was, but emotionally? No. Little kids can be just as cruel as adults. I was never the one to cause problems with anyone else, I was a quiet kid. But there’s always those mean kids in every class, and those mean kids always picked on me. Each day would get harder because of the names that they called me like “Princess Fiona” or “Miss Piggy.” They would always target my weight. I was never skinny as a kid, I was really heavy and it gave bullies an advantage to taunt me. In those moments, I felt weak and bewildered. Some kids might stand up for themselves, others would stay quiet and hurt in silence. Unfortunately, I was hurting in silence. I was young and defenseless. I didn’t know how to stand up for myself and I didn’t have the courage to because I was raised in a household where speaking up could make matters worse, and you wouldn’t be heard. This perception followed me through my whole elementary and middle school years. It impacted my childhood greatly, killing my self esteem. I was mortified and I was always alone.