re: #48 HappyWarrior

And I am not saying this because I got bullied a little. I was guilty of a little bullying myself. There was one girl. Man, I still feel like crap thinking about how me and some friends treated her in elementary school. And then I later found out not long after I had Asperger’s that she did too. I felt terrible. One thing that strikes me though thinking about her is no matter how cruel people were to her. She was always very kind.

I was mostly on the receiving end, but I was once one of a few “Me-Too”s to a pair of jerks in grade school who taunted a Orthodox Jewish boy who turned out to have a brain tumor that killed him less than a year after I first met him. When his younger brother began at the same school he told me of the pain I’d caused and told me he’d never forgive me for it. Those words stuck, and I’ve never forgiven myself either. I learned for the first time just how much of an asshole I could be and that discovery has haunted me ever since.