Was there a lot of bullying in the schooll you went to? Did you get bullied?

I remember it being worse in middle school than in high school. There were definitely some kids who were "strange" in some way and became regular targets. Other kids would talk badly about them and just generally treated them terribly. I remember one girl (who was probably autistic; everyone "hated" her) and I had this deep conversation once about how she didn't want to keep getting in trouble all the time and be so disliked, etc. I'm not trying to sound like I was so great, but being able to talk to anyone, no matter how "unpopular" they were is something I was always good at.

Considering that I was a really small and shy kid (not to mention closeted), I think things could've gone a lot worse for me. The occasional teasing comment or being mocked in P.E. for being bad at every sport was essentially all I got. And by high school, that kind of thing had stopped.