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ruslnigmatullin

2 мая 2020 г., 02:08

From a young age, we teach children to say, “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” But this isn’t true. Bullying hurts so much not because one individual is rejecting us but because we tend to believe that the bully speaks for others—that if we are being singled out by the bully, then we are probably unliked and unwanted by most. Otherwise, why would all those others watch the bully tease us rather than stepping in to help support us? Absence of support is taken as a sign of mass rejection.