We just did an interview with a guy at my oxford house (sober living), and while he did get accepted, we asked him to wait outside.
and everyone starting making fun of him for being autistic and talking about how ‘weird’ he was. Even my own brother.
the house president was like “its been said hes an autistic”
Me and one other dude were like, lets give him a chance man. He did get accepted, but man i hate that shit
Why are people like this?
To my infinite shame, I used to be like this. I was bullied a lot, and I internalized that to mean I was an inferior and unworthy person. The flipside of that was that, on the rare occasions I could be one of the bullies, I jumped at the chance because (in my mind) it proved that I wasn’t entirely without value.
The fact that you acknowledge that, feel regret for it, and I can only assume you have sought atonement for it means a whole lot.
I’ve known childhood bullies that never changed and in fact looked back at the “good old days” where “boys could be boys.”