Akili Li wrote:I used to critique teasing and bullying... it got so the kids would come up and say something just to hear what I'd return, which was annoying, so then I started lecturing them instead on basic creativity and research and they're certainly old enough to uncover the better insults themselves, expecting me to do their work for them was just laziness on their part...
I didn't really have peer-aged friends, lol. But I was such a boring enemy that I didn't really have enemies either.
But that technique was only eventually developed because we moved a fair bit when I was a kid, and that gave me chance after chance at trying new techniques out.
Which was, yes, helpful.
I don't have peer-aged friends on this neighborhood either, even though most of them were close (and far) blood relatives of mine. I used to be close to them as kids but it just has come to a point that we have gone on our own separate lives even though we only live few blocks apart or just beside our home.
We have our own separate cliques, schools plus I became I homebody and only goes out with my friends at school on my pre-teens and teenage years. I was also, a bit of an introvert on my teenage years.
I can't say, I have experimented with the way I confront or approached people on here, but I have learned to keep distance or minimize my interaction with toxic ones in here.