U playing it on pro , OP ? <| sep |> Dusty was easily the worst big atheist Youtuber . <| sep |> The best coup ! <| sep |> . If people were wielding knives , you could ' ve skipped school and went to the police . Did you ? No ? Were you aware that you could go to the police ? No , I was not aware I could go to the police . I was a fucking kid ! I didn ' t even think of the police . Why would I ? I didn ' t even know bullying was a crime . For me , it was just a fact of life . It started in primary school , as nasty words and social exclusion . When it escalated to violence and psychological torture in high school , it was just more of the same but different . I was a small kid , smaller than my classmates . I wasn ' t effeminate , but I was definitely not a butch macho masculine kid . I was a nerdy weedy intellectual . And whenever I did try to get authority figures involved , or when an authority figure tried to intervene , it just made the bullies worse for a while . So even if I had thought of the police I probably would have decided not to get them involved for fear of making things worse . I don ' t think you appreciate just how oppressive continual bullying can be . It demoralises you . I contemplated suicide because I thought it was the only way out of my living hell . It ' s not as simple as telling a kid to stand his ground and fight back regardless of the consequences . It ' s not that easy when it ' s the whole school bullying you or feels like it for your whole school life . As much as it sucks , the real world can be a hell of a lot worse than school . You know what ? It ' s not . Adults are nowhere near as cruel as kids . And , as an adult , I have a lot more freedom and options than when I was a kid . I can leave a workplace if that sort of bullying happens . I couldn ' t leave that school . I was trapped with those kids day after day , year after year . And before you say it not all parents are helpful , for various reasons . Rather than saying bullies should be stopped I say empower the victims to stop being victims . This is effectively blaming me for being bullied . Fuck that . I ' m not the one who needed better role models . I wasn ' t the bad guy . How come the bullies don ' t have to be held responsible for their actions ? Why is it my responsibility to control them ?