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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was neither mean nor nice- just a follower type.  There were some kids who were picked on mercilessly- one in particular behaved very oddly and was probably undiagnosed ASD.

My middle school was nasty.  All of the kids seemed pretty nasty, and it is hard to be "better" in that kind of environment, at that age.  It did not help that I transferred in at 7th grade.  Teachers did not call out bad behavior and ignored it, no one talked about being a nice person.  It just wasn't a thing.[/quote]

+1. I didn’t move in the middle of middle school, but did come in to 6th grade from a different elementary school than most of the other kids so I didn’t know too many of them. My middle school was [i]mean[/i] - there’s no other way to put it. It was kill or be killed. No messaging from teachers/administrators about bullying or being a nice person or even just ignoring kids who bothered you in some way. No rules about things like passing out party invites in school. Conformity to a few different types of social groups was king and anyone outside these groups was, well, an outsider. Thank goodness this was before social media. [/quote]

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