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Originally posted by Dionysus
Damn, did I strike a nerve or something? I guess being picked up and thrown out of bus windows because of your small build, brings back bad memories.
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To echo a wise man's words . . . wow.
Look,
your question as posed quite literally asked if, using the old adage "what doesn't kill you can only make you stronger," one could justify name-calling as intricate to the process of becoming an adult.
You have, most likely, not yet reached your peak level of 'emotional maturity' (and that's not even referencing the above), if I have ascertained your age correctly as around 21 years of age.
I 'insulted' you - do you feel any more mature? Any more adult?
I would doubt that you do - I would say that this is because, as posed, the question is a classic non sequitur. Your basis is a maxim whose truth is dubious at best, and you carry that forward to attempt to reach a conclusion about a seemingly unrelated topic.
I applaud
aprilxo and
KappaKittyCat for attempting to relate information, in a more general sense, about the effects of bullying on children, but I don't really find that to be your question, as stated in the OP.
So, it would appear that I was the one who struck a nerve - sorry, I figured in the context of YOUR OWN THREAD it would be seen as what it was intended: an outlandish quasi-insult, attempting to make a point in a sort of non-didactic manner.
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OMG ur so MEEN - ur off my buddylist (l33t)