It is on days like this that I wish there was a way to combine

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3. I was a "weird and troubled" kid.

It was the supposedly "normal" kids who were beating me up and calling me names.

I quit high school for college as soon as I could and the physical violence stopped, mostly I think because the sorts of "normal" people who beat up weird kids in high school fear as adults they might go to jail if they assault someone. I don't want any part of that kind of normal, people who avoid wrongdoing because they fear punishment are scary.

Obviously there are mentally ill people who are violent, but mostly mentally ill people suffer violence.

I enjoyed a few revenge fantasies as a kid but these never involved physical violence. Mostly after somebody beat me up I'd just try to be more invisible than I already was.

Thank you for your post.