this is prob fake news! i just thought it was funny

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      Nah, in fact that’s a common pattern: people who suffered from abuse are more likely to become abusers. So we can definitely all be bullies and bullied.

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        Indeed. I was bullied in elementary school. Became a bully in high school when I moved out to another state and I also got bigger than the average.

        Been working through it in therapy for a few years, it was mostly out of fear. I’d be the big bad bully before someone did it to me, not an excuse since I did hurt people and that’s on me. But it is a common thing

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        I feel that. I used to be bullied, but few years ago I started having proper friends and improved my social skills. Then I lost few friends because I went too far in my “jokes”, I thought we were that close for those kinds of “jokes” (which is at this point it’s an insult).

        At one point I realized that I’m such a bully sometimes when I have to be spontaneous during realtime chit-chats.

        But I don’t be sorry is when I use abusive language to bots when I tried Duckduckgo’s ai tools one time. I do feel like it to do that to bots, because I know it’s not going to cost me a friendship.