I have grown up being kind and kindness made aware to me in third grade. I was treated poorly by many of the others kids. There was this one girl (Sophia) who taught me, taught …show more content…
If someone makes a cruel jest, you calmly ignore it act like you never heard it and if those people want a response you smile softly and nod your head. This technique is easiest if you are talking to a friend because then it gives you reason not to hear it. If someone makes a soft comment trying to be rude make a joke out of it, usually it will be hard to tell if there comment is sarcasm or meant to be insulting. If someone insults you on a basic level, your clothes, your voice, your actions you can just say thank you and throw it off or give them a comment without sounding sarcastic. The hardest kind to deflect is an insult because it is usually more personal than “you look stupid in purple.” Because you cannot say “I love purple” or “I like the way that shirt looks on you” Those comments are too soft for a straight out insult and deserves something more stern. It also should not show any sensitivity otherwise they would not stop bothering you. One of the best techniques is to invite them somewhere or offer to hang out sometime, this works well because it shows that you do not care what others think of you and what you care and they usually refuse your offer even if they are looking for friendship. All you need to do is find different ways to ask for their friendship each time they insult you. Not only do you need to …show more content…
You can also look at yourself and see that it has gotten easier to be kind but harder to use different techniques against bullying. I have experienced a couple people saying straight up “thank you”. There have been times when people have been rude to me because I was being kind to them and others and then later them saying that “Cassie has never been mean to anyone; she has always been kind. How do we treat her in return? We do not treat her very well at all. I believe that Cassie doesn’t have one mean bone in her body.” Then turning to me, he said “Thank you for being kind to us when we haven’t been kind to you.” I always felt confident in myself when I was being kind to them. There were sometimes I snapped at this group but it did not happen very often and when it did I ended up crying and asking them to act differently they respected me for those moments. Even though they never actually tried to behave differently in the way, they treated me. I was fine with that because I learned to live with it but it was not something that I should have been able to get