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The One Where I Was Bullied at School, I Think

I WAS BULLIED AT SCHOOL, I THINK.

See, this is one of the great things about having ADD. I don’t have a very good attention span, so when people at school started talking smack about me I’d hang around for the first part, the big opener: ‘You’re such a dumb slut.’ But by the time they got warmed up I was already halfway to the swing set, chasing a squirrel I thought I had seen three hours earlier. So I think a lot of it was wasted on me.

The word ‘bully’ gets thrown around a lot. Much like the word ‘empowering’ (when a rich, topless model poses on her dad’s yacht on the French Riviera she’s not ‘empowering’, you guys, she’s spoilt). Or when my teenage stepdaughter says she will ‘literally’ slit her wrists if her three-year-old brother calls her Bum Bum one more time, again it’s not really an accurate description of what is going on.