Responding To Bullies With Humor

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

I was wondering if anyone else relates to this response.
For example, when I was probably about 10 or 11 someone bullied me for refusing to do something by calling me a chicken. I knew the term and what it meant and I know that the expected response would be to succumb to the peer pressure or at least get hurt or defensive or something of that nature. My response was to proceed to act like a chicken and then ended up busting out laughing when the bully got confused and perhaps even embarrassed as anticipated.
Later at job sites, if someone mocks me or hits me with something and things like that I largely ignore them, keep doing my work and looking for the positive things. I would sometimes start noticing the puzzled looks and might even get a comment about how I should be mad. Everyone's expressions end up amusing me. You can tell everyone is confused and the biggest irony is that some of them will even looked scared and for what? I was just working at my work assignment. They were the one that did something against me. I didn't do anything back and have absolutely no intention of doing so yet they are the ones standing around looking nervous and commenting to each other about thinking I might be dangerous even though I have done nothing to appear dangerous but am merely doing my job as expected by management.This amuses me and I laugh pretty easy and can have trouble getting it entirely under control and somehow getting amused is one of the things that triggers an energy spike so I may begin to do my work with gusto and frequently escaping snickers and giggles. Later when someone that was not present comes around and asks me about it I will tell them what the person did and then declare that the people think I am "mad" because I am not angry and then I giggle more.

 

[RemyZee]

I was wondering if anyone else relates to this response.
For example, when I was probably about 10 or 11 someone bullied me for refusing to do something by calling me a chicken. I knew the term and what it meant and I know that the expected response would be to succumb to the peer pressure or at least get hurt or defensive or something of that nature. My response was to proceed to act like a chicken and then ended up busting out laughing when the bully got confused and perhaps even embarrassed as anticipated.
Later at job sites, if someone mocks me or hits me with something and things like that I largely ignore them, keep doing my work and looking for the positive things. I would sometimes start noticing the puzzled looks and might even get a comment about how I should be mad. Everyone's expressions end up amusing me. You can tell everyone is confused and the biggest irony is that some of them will even looked scared and for what? I was just working at my work assignment. They were the one that did something against me. I didn't do anything back and have absolutely no intention of doing so yet they are the ones standing around looking nervous and commenting to each other about thinking I might be dangerous even though I have done nothing to appear dangerous but am merely doing my job as expected by management.This amuses me and I laugh pretty easy and can have trouble getting it entirely under control and somehow getting amused is one of the things that triggers an energy spike so I may begin to do my work with gusto and frequently escaping snickers and giggles. Later when someone that was not present comes around and asks me about it I will tell them what the person did and then declare that the people think I am "mad" because I am not angry and then I giggle more.

If I had enough courage, I would in polite company just out of the blue do an impromptu chicken imitation. Yes. I have actually thought about this.

 

[Outdated]

The first time I ever stood up to a bully was at the beginning of Year 8, that's fist year high school for us. I was almost 12 years old and puberty was in full swing. One of the bigger kids told me that I was going to do his maths homework for him or he'd beat the crap out of me and gave me all his school books.

I didn't stand up to him at the time with all his mates standing around but on my way home I had time to think. People had always picked on me and I was used to getting beaten up for nothing. Why would this time be any different? And then I realised that if that was going to keep happening anyway then there was no point in me being someone else's (b) witch.

I walked past the back of the fish and chip shop and dropped all of his books in the dumpster.

The next day before school he asked me where his homework was and I told him I threw it in a dumpster. Instead of beating me up he got all upset and went and told a teacher, who sent both of us to see the headmaster. I got the cane across my hands twice for destruction of school property, but he let me stay and watch while the other kid got 20 for "using threats and coercion to obtain goods or services, a crime punishable with jail for adults".

I was grinning from ear to ear the whole way through this, even while getting caned, I knew I'd won. That kid never bothered me again and all the other kids started leaving me alone a bit more after that.

Why? How does that work?

You have to understand what motivates a bully. It's their perception of their own social standing. When that kid demanded I do his homework for him he deliberately did so in front of all his friends. That's what the whole exercise was really all about for him, showing his friends how big and tough he is by pushing the school square around.

In his dream scenario I would have showed up to school the next day with his completed homework - a graphic demonstration of abasement and appeasement in front of his friends. What he got was 5 cuts of the cane across his hands, 5 across the backs of his legs and another 10 on his backside. When we came out of the headmaster's office I was grinning from ear to ear and he was crying. He also couldn't sit down and couldn't hold a pen and had to go home, much to the amusement of all of his "friends".

And that's when I learnt that the best way to take down a bully is by public humiliation. To them it's all about their perception of their social standing. They do what they do to impress their friends, if instead their friends all end up laughing at them and calling them a wanker then in their own minds they have lost social standing instead of gaining it. A lesson they won't repeat.

 

[NB79]

I had some bullies, once i felt treathened and left the whole class, later i came back, happened the teacher forced everyone to stay past school hour. Another times i just endured the insults,
but one time, this kid was harassing me so much, that in one moment or ire, i grabbed him by the throat and beat him, they later invited me to their home, maybe to see how i hurt his face, he was full of cuts, the other kids said i fought like a girl with my nails because of that but i didn't the cuts were because of the punches.

 

[lunarious]

Being victim has bad reputation, but victim is better than being bully. We want to get rid of Violence.

It's not cool how good i am to hurt others.