The feeling of being bullied…

[Guest6093]

Hi everyone.

I don’t know if anyone else has gone through these feelings but I feel like I’m being bullied. On the outside it probably doesn’t seem that way but to me that is what it feels like.

I often take my kids to parties and social events where the kids will normally start picking on me. It might be that they circle around me and squirt me with water pistols. It might be they call me names and laugh.

I know it’s an attention seeking thing but does anyone else get this, especially from kids. Even when I say stop they won’t.

In any given social circumstance, I’m normally the oddball. I don’t particularly care but I do struggle socially with other people but that doesn’t stop me from doing or trying things.

Advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Alannah57]

I’m really well equipped to talk on the subject of feeling like a social oddball. When I was 14 I used to feel like an outsider because I was one and didn’t fit into social groups at school and have the strangest, most inconvenient crying spells in the middle of gym classes etc. I also have a bipolar diagnosis. And in my uni courses I’ve totally had that jarring, painful feeling of not fitting in socially. Loneliness distorts our feelings and thoughts, and affects how we perceive social interactions; and it’s painful to feel lonely. I think seeing a psychologist or GP about those feelings is a good idea, because feeling like an oddball does not an emotionally comfortable life make.