Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : So, I know the title sounds like a shitpost but I actually do feel bad. I’m a 15 year old male who is kinda overweight and fairly tall, 5’11. To reduce my weight, I have started cycling in my neighbourhood. I put on my headphones and start making laps around my neighbourhood. There are usually a bunch of kids out playing and I always stop until their game (usually football/soccer) pauses. There is a certain group of children who are around 13 years old who always annoy me to no end. Whenever I’m cycling and pass the area where they play, they will throw their football at me to hit me or wave their cricket bats in my face as if to threaten me. I had told them not to do this many times but they persisted. Once they started doing this a lot I stopped responding or paying attention to them. This just made them do this more. I try very hard to avoid conflict and so I used still didn’t pay attention to them.

Now the day of this incident, I was cycling as I usually would and I payed no attention to them. My girlfriend had recently dumped me and my mood had not been the best, to say the least. I know I’m still pretty young but it really hurt. I was in no mood to deal with these kids but I still started to do my daily 10 km. These kids pestered me again and again to the point where I was boiling with anger. As soon as one of the kids hit me with his football again, I got off my cycle and stomped over to him. He started to raise his football to hit me once more but I knocked it out of his hands and restrained his hand by grabbing by his wrist. I shouted in his to not hit me with his football ever again or else I would myself get violent. Once I stopped shouting he teared up and I let him go. He ran away to his house and all of his friends were standing around shocked. I got back on my cycle and after finishing my 10 km, I went  home.

Now comes the ‘am I the asshole part’. Once I got home, I started prospecting about what had occured. I started to feel bad because one: I had made a 13 year old cry. Two: I had fairly violently grasped his wrist. Three: I may have ruined his reputation in his friend group and fourth: I had voided my own ethics and code of conduct. Being very conflicted about what to feel like, I now turn to you, the users of Reddit and subscribers of this subreddit and I ask you: AITA?