In some ways, I DID bring it on myself-I have a big mouth. I did say a few things I shouldn’t.
However, that was high school. In grade school, 7th grade, I was fed up with spending most of my days hiding in the bathrooms. This was still Catholic school, so I had been in the same class with most of these kids since kindergarten.
I was so fed up, I asked my teacher if I could stand up in class and confront my classmates. And I did it. I reminded them that they had known me for years, and asked them WHY they kept doing it?
It worked in my case.
I’m NOT saying though, this would work for everyone. With me, I probably had an edge because we all knew each other so well, it was a smaller school, etc.
Soo…I’m just saying.