During high school, I was a special education student. I have graduated and will go back another year for postgraduate year. During the first few years, friends / classmates / random students would tease me whenever they had the guts to do so. They made crying noises (essentially / especially "WAH! WAH! WAH!" infant baby crying noises) when I was around close by, especially at me. Even some classmates would do this to me. Most of the students at my school would be from the ghetto and there are those who can be very immature and show no mercy. I am 19 years old, and I live with Asperger's Syndrome, which means there are certain things I face in life which I am not ready for. Sometimes making friends at school would be hard for me (although I had my best friend in my program along with other certain friends I know / knew at school). I have shared this bullying situation with my female social councilor. Whenever I got bullied, I would report to a staff member or security person. I have and still make great progress at school, tried with so much efforts to get work done, received good grades, and have been on the honor roll / dean's list many times. The students at my school would make fun of me by making crying noises to get a rise out of me, in which I guess those type of exciting moments for them over me are compared to a little circus monkey flipping around at whatever certain sound it hears even the snapping of human fingers. I guess you can see I can be apart of their entertainment which to me is quite frustrating, annoying, and terrible, and worse, makes things worse for me in life. It has happened to me at lunch, gym, after school, waiting for class to begin, they do it to me anytime they want to to make their days special. One of the feelings I get is being nervous of certain places, even crowds (crowded people, with families of kids below pre-adolescent growing level). I am sensitive to certain noises and cannot stand to hear the sound of crying (especially infants / babies / toddlers / little children / anyone under the age of 13, including those under 5 years old). It's a pain isn't it? Well, I call the sounds of crying the most unbearable / unstoppable pain in the world. It's hard to deal with things like this! It's hard and upsetting to deal with seeing a child go ballistic and having an emotional fussy meltdown. The one thing that makes things even worse for me is when other students impersonate crying noises at me. I usually am uncomfortable with places such as restaurants in which some customers bring children / babies there to eat, that can be near by, airports, supermarkets, museums, crowded cities, anywhere in the world where kids and babies can be where they can cry and be fussy. That isn't fun! I use an iPod whenever we fly on vacation. The airport can have kids / babies which is a pain. The one thing I hate about flying is sitting in a seat with a crying baby in a nearby row or close by. It's so hard and so scary! What's even scarier is when teenagers imitate crying noises (even baby crying) at me. Those jokes are just not funny at all! I would never appreciate that manner from anyone.
Have you ever been in a situation like this? Have you or someone you know been an easy target for bullying because of his / her ethnic background / race / emotions / (mental or physical) disability?
Have you (or someone you know / knew) at high school been bullied by students with similar types of bullying manners towards you?
Have they been rude to you as well as acting as if they know / knew you and are friends with them? Please explain to me how you were bullied, why you were bullied, weaknesses, and what kind of a classmate / friend / student you really were in school.
Please be specific and tell me what you know.
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