Someone Else Who Thinks there are 'Perks' to Being Bullied

[Bellatrix]

I was recently trying to recall the name of the author (Karen Kabaki Sisto) of a highly controversial article at Autism Daily News, so I typed in the words "Perks to being bullied" and ended up finding this: "9 Perks of Being the Bullied: The Reasons You Will Come Out on Top in College"

http://www.theodysseyonline.com/clarion/perks-being-bullied/113016

Will people never learn? Is humanity irremediably stupid? I'm starting to think so.

 

[Mr. Cat]

I just find any article of this sort (and they seem to be pretty popular these days) to be ridiculously stupid.

 

[NothingToSeeHere]

'The Perks of Being Bullied' written by someone who was not driven into severe social anxiety, deep depression, and attempted suicide by bullying. Thank you so much for informing me that I benefited from this experience This completely changes my persective on my miserable school years.

My goodness some people are monumentally stupid.

 

[pax]

I can't believe the crap some people come out with.

 

[unsurewhattoname]

Oh look, 9 potential things someone who happened to be bullied is good at. Now where is the huge list of things people who are bullied struggle with way after school? Trust issues? Insecurities? Low confidence? It'd be a huge list. Just because you can find good things in a negative thing does not make it a positive thing.

 

[King_Oni]

I believe there's bullying and bullying... and I'm of opinion that the person writing the article hasn't really endured extreme bullying like some have.

The moment bullying goes so far it's a danger to your own life, police has to step in and you have to change schools among other things, it's a different thing, than, say... someone harassing you by calling you names once in a while. And no, I'm not downplaying the latter, since it's bad enough as it is.

And let's not forget how bullying, no matter how severe, has a different impact to everyone. Some brush it off, while others still have anxiety 20 years later.

 

[AspergerianYogi]

I believe there's bullying and bullying... and I'm of opinion that the person writing the article hasn't really endured extreme bullying like some have.

The moment bullying goes so far it's a danger to your own life, police has to step in and you have to change schools among other things, it's a different thing, than, say... someone harassing you by calling you names once in a while. And no, I'm not downplaying the latter, since it's bad enough as it is.

And let's not forget how bullying, no matter how severe, has a different impact to everyone. Some brush it off, while others still have anxiety 20 years later.

You somehow traveled through cyberspace into my brain, downloaded my words, and put them onto the forum, you rascal, you!!

I think that the writer of this article is not demonstrating stupidity so much as she is tunnel vision. There are a lot of people who would find this funny and empowering and supported by media representations of Then vs. Now depictions of bullying and extreme hardship (think, "Revenge of the Nerds", "Can't Hardly Wait", "Antwone Fisher", "Rudy", or even "Cinderella", and figures such as Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X, Temple Grandin, etc.) where the underdog comes out on top and everyone else realizes how stupid they were and are now paying back big time. This "article" was meant to be one of those Uproxx or Buzzfeed or Upworthy videos that inspires to be proud of whom they are (inspiration porn, I think they call it?) in a manner that is also dishonest and snarky and clearly meant to take a jab at somebody else they're pissed off at.

Long story short, to my fellow Aspies/Atuies: I think we have bigger fish to fry than worrying about the pseudo-intellectual inspiration-erotica online-journal entries of this particularly naive college student with access to a blogosphere who felt like taking time away from her studies to write something overly idealistic and borderlining on oblivious just to make herself feel smart. Just ignore her.

 

[EricD]

I have hairs with more common sense, & I'm not saying where said hairs are located! Whoever wrote that article is more full of crap than a certain location near the previously mentioned filaments!!