By all rights, I should have been bullied, as I was one of those smaller, weaker kids in high school with very low self-esteem and no idea how to fit in. The brilliant (IMHO) scheme I unwittingly came up with was that I became uncommonly cool. No one had any idea that under that calm, collected, smooth exterior I was a very self-conscious, frightened young man. In college I became much more self-confident while perfecting the Art of Cool and did in fact become very popular. Then in adulthood, living in dense, major cities out of necessity I had to change and make it obvious confronting me unsolicited is not something you would walk away from in one piece. Fortunately, as you get older, you get to mellow and realize it was all pointless anyway and now you couldn't get "bullied" if you tried. 
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