Andrew: When I was at the mainstream school, the kids used to tease me or torment me because
I used to walk funny, or talk funny.
Jayme: One of the games we would play would be hide and seek.
I would count, and the other girls would go off and play a completely different game.
Marita: It was more, I think for me, more indirect than direct.
I would come across, and I would hear people giggling and laughing - Oh look at this spastic
girl walking again.
Jayme: I was actually also in a way, bullied by the teacher.
Whatever desk can pack up first gets to go to lunch first.
Obviously my desk would never pack up first, and that's where the teasing would be converted
into the playground because we weren't first out to lunch because of me.
Jo: The girl she was having a party, and I was in her class, and she was talking about
it all the time, and just being excluded from that, and not being invited, just having to
deal with all those kinds of girl issue things.
The way I was bullied at school.
Zoe: At the time it kind of made me feel really sad, and I guess, unvalued.
Marita: It made me quite small, actually.
I was like, I'm not actually different to you - you don't see me as a person first.
But yeah, it made me feel quite upset.
It was some days where I came home, and I sort of didn't want to go to school the next
day.
Jayme: I came home every night and cried.
I was only in Year 4, so I was bad - nine or ten years old.
I was coming home fighting and crying with my parents.
Ben: I tried to pay them back, but they’d try again.
David: I did get bullied now and then.
Then I found a lot of the kids that bullied me have problems with themselves.
Andrew: And I’d just react by just laughing at them.
And in the end they would just give up and just start laughing at me.
Jess: I don't think school bullies were game enough to pick on me.
If they did I would just chuckle at them.
I don't think it was the reaction they wanted.
Jayme: There's a bully in every school, but it's how you deal with it.
So, in high school when I was bullied by a few people, I would say, oh well, go off,
play by yourself, because I knew I would go home and I would get on my bike.
I would get in the swimming pool, or the next weekend, I would be in a disabled community.
Julius: If you have a disability you have to step up to that and think that they might
be a bit ignorant of people with disabilities.
We are no different than anybody else in this world.
Elly-May: Because I always kind of never really cared what they thought.
It just kind of gave them their power, which made them not really want to try because they'll
just look like an idiot.
Because I can.