'The victim is never responsible'

[PrettyCandles]

I know that this is accepted truth. Yet I cannot shake the feeling that I was responsible. If I had been different, or behaved differently, I would not have been bullied. So how can I not bear some of the responsibility for being bullied?

I think this statement is telling, and so true:

"Because whenever a child is bullied, somebody?s eyes are shut: the eyes of a parent, classmates, a teacher, a worker, the lollipop person, shopkeepers, people on the street, the eyes of a community and a society, all of us who know about this and do not do enough to confront it."

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