How Being Bullying Affects Your Adulthood Summary
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me”, the famous rhyme I would recite when someone was indeed hurting my feelings. The insecurities I had as a child from being overweight or having larger ears that stuck further than most of my peers, were in fact the very reason I was being bullied. In the article “How Being Bullied Affects Your Adulthood” by Kate Baggaley she describes how one family therapist by the name of Ellen Walser DeLara interviewed over eight hundred people ranging in age from eighteen to sixty-five about the lasting effects bullying had on their live. The author explains that from DeLara’s research over the years, she has uncovered a distinctive pattern from adults who were severely bullied. DeLara