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287: What if you couldn’t explain his heinous act?

This Is Actually Happening

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The Importance of Language in Bullying

I was a bully at school. I can almost feel in a very visceral way that my bullying was coming from a place of pain. Maybe it was a kind of distraction by inflicting pain on other people through the words that I was using. My neighbors called me garbage mouth because even from a really young age, I was eight years old and I was out in the backyard just swearing up a storm. A lot of her negative attention went on to singling out these dichotomies in me,. But she showed me a lot of love. She was a really exceptional person to be around. It's not about being like this little blonde blue-eyed doll."

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