Bullying YouTube Video Transcript

Hey everybody.  Today I'd like to talk about my experiences with bullying.  It is actually going to be a pretty short video because I really wasn't bullied that much when I was younger.  ...or now, for that matter.

So, yeah, when I was in elementary school and high school.  ...actually I wasn't bullied at all when I was in high school or in college.  In elementary school, (I was bullied) a little bit.

For the most part, I had a lot of friends and most kids liked me.  I got along with the majority of my classmates.

There was one exception in school and another out of school.  For...  I don't know what reason...  I actually had the same name as the kid.  We were both "Joseph."  Although, at the time I didn't prefer "Joseph."  I do prefer it now (to Joe or Joey). 

There were two other Josephs in my elementary school class.  One of them I got along really well with and the other one, for whatever reason, used to make fun of me a lot.  So how I dealt with that - which probably wasn't the right way - was the other kid named Joseph was a bit of a bully, too, but he liked me so I used to get him to pick on the kid that picked on me.

Again, that probably was not the right thing to do, but I was 7 or 8 at the time and it worked because the other kid stopped making fun of me.  So that was THAT time.

Now, out of school - I guess you guys know that I do theater and musicals and stuff like that, but when I was younger there was a woman I used to take voice and piano lessons with and she did cabarets (songs from different musicals) to raise money for local charities.  We did the cabarets at a church.  That was the venue, I guess.

So, one of the kids - his mother was in the show also...

When I wasn't using my wheelchair I would crawl around on the ground/floor, so this kid saw me crawling around and called me a baby.  He called me that over and over again and I really didn't like being called that.  It bothered me quite a bit.  A lot, I would say.

Again, I didn't have my wheelchair with me at the time, but I started punching him, his legs...  You know, wherever I could reach.

Several of the adults in the show mentioned to his mom that he was causing problems, not just with me, but with other kids.  So I didn't have any problems with him after that.

But again, after those two instances I didn't have any trouble with bullying.  So that is all I have to say about that.

I will see you next time!

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