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User Profile: Disneywoman
Disneywoman May 16th

So this story is more simple or at least I think it's a simple story.  At the time I was in Gr. 8 and I was being bullied in school-sometimes badly- see the Doorknob Bullying story if you haven't already.  Also at the time I had a green coat.  It was between 2 seasons, the only thing I knew it wasn't winter at the time because I had shoes on.     Don't worry it has a good ending.   


Story 

So my split Gr.7/Gr. 8 class and the other teacher's Gr. 8 class had a field trip to what I guess was a Outdoor Education centre.  Then we had what I can only call a "game" organized by the adults    a big chunk of the classes were "werewolves" included some of the bullies.   Everyone else who wasn't a wolve including myself, were "deer".    And the deer at least had what I can call "Booklets" we're suppose to stamp at what I'm going to call "Watering Holes" along the trail.   I started off like normally like on the trail.   But  I somehow had this 3rd sense, to get off the trail and I spend the rest of the game along the trees- with some stops to check the trail to find out if I was heading in the right direction.


When I got back to the Building, at the entrance,  I was the last person to return from the forest and I "won" the game by "surviving" as an animal.


Thoughts: 

So  I highly believe now, that the reason I might have did the "going through trees" at the time of the story, is because I was worried about combination of no teachers or adults in the forest (or as far as I know, there weren't),  and what the bullies might have done to me in the forest.   

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User Profile: Amanda84
Amanda84 May 16th

@Disneywoman

I am glad you won and stayed safe 🥰

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User Profile: Disneywoman
Disneywoman OP May 16th

@Amanda84 I have another story from a several years back.  It's talking about why I believe I didn't go trick or Treating on Halloween after I was 11 years old.    Since Mom wanted me to go solo,  and I was like in this one, afraid of like bullies, either running into bullies, or something.


All three of these stories I been thinking of recently, because in a weird way, Molly Burke has been helping me to process my own trauma, or my own responses to school-related trauma.   Like an unofficial therapist.  

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User Profile: CherryBerry53
CherryBerry53 June 23rd

@Disneywoman

Thank you for sharing this. It's crazy how moments like these can really stick with you for years. I find it cool how trusting your instincts guided you through this journey and I'm happy that it ended on a positive note with you winning the game. :)

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User Profile: Disneywoman
Disneywoman OP June 23rd

@CherryBerry53  I joke now that  I must have been The Prince of a forest,  or something in a previous life if  I went through trees.   Because in the original story where the 1942 Disney Movie Bambi  was based off of-  The Great Prince of the Forest showed Bambi to "stay off the trails"  this is something I only discovered more recently after digging into original stories of Disney movies 

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User Profile: CherryBerry53
CherryBerry53 June 23rd

@Disneywoman 

Thank you for sharing this. It's crazy how moments like these can really stick with you for years. I find it cool how trusting your instincts guided you through this journey and I'm happy that it ended on a positive note with you winning the game. :)