School bullies and the bullied: How did your life turn out?

Bullied all the way through school, grew up with 2 heroin addicts for parents so you can imagine the state I was in most days, kids didn't care, I was the smelly kid, the weird kid.

Good job now, good life, but I'm completely obsessed with fighting/martial arts, now I have the confidence, I won't let anyone treat me like I was treated for years, I don't take any shit off anyone anymore, as far as I'm concerned 99 per cent of people are absolute assholes so I guess you can say it's affected me a lot.

I train 4/5/6 days a week in martial arts and I have respect in the gym I train at, people who meet me now wouldn't have any idea I was relentlessly bullied for years.

Probably wouldn't be so obsessed with being tough if I wasn't bullied honestly and I'm not sure if it's a good thing or not.

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