Its good of you to be willing to admit so much. I was and still am small and scrawny, I’ve often been mistaken for a girl my entire life, I was moved ahead several years in school so that everyone was older than me, and I was usually the only Native American the other kids had ever met. And lately I’ve begun to wonder why I never was bullied as a kid. If life was like comic strips and sitcoms, I should have been perfect bully-bait. Perhaps it is easier to guess what would set off a bully than to guess what might not. And perhaps it comes to mind because I now have a kid in the same situation, about to move ahead to the eighth grade this fall two months before she turns nine. But I was always the quiet kid, while she’s always had a talent for dominating groups of older kids.
I don’t know if this could mean anything, but I’ve known a lot of artists in real life and online and a lot more artists have worked for me, and I’ve been surprised that they’ve almost all said that they were bullied to some degree.
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