[Anonymous]

Its more mental bullying than anything. As in there were 3 of us friends and one of those started disliking/openly mocking me as he thought I wasn't "cool" enough although he's just a superficial idiot who doesn't appreciate people different from him. And basically one of their friends I was acquaintances with also dislikes me for the same reasons. So I completely stopped talking to those two and ignored them. I made a new group of friends and hung out with the one good friend separately. They would make comments sometimes when they saw me, but it doesnt affect me anymore, and consequently they've reduced it. I dont see the acquaintance much but the former friend is in my sports team and on my course. So he tries to speak to me when there are other people nearby so I'm forced to reply to him I don't know how to respond to this confidently as I'm not a rude person by nature and dont know how to close a conversation down from the very start. If I speak normally, then he will subtly bring up something embarrassing about me like exam marks, appearance etc. I don't know if I should be rude and then explain my rudeness to my friends later or just play along and be subtly cold. He's actually close minded and gossipy but he's highly confident and knows how to be fake...so as a result he has a lot more acquaintances on our course.

TL;DR: Used to be good friends with 2 people, now enemies. They try and mock me whenever they see me. Doesn't affect me at all when I'm on my own but if I'm in a group of people (lecture, outside the cinema), I don't know if I should be rude and then explain my rudeness to my friends or just play along and stop caring. I'm leaning towards the former as although I'm a bit shy(and hence no one really knows me), I'm fairly sure of myself.

[Anonymous]

We dont have any common friendship groups as such, just lots of acquaintances. So I still didn't want to make a scene or make it awkward, as he's better liked by the people (on an acquaintance level). But now a lot of those are leaving uni as well, so maybe I should be rude back, if provoked?

[Anonymous]

Most of the embarrassing things that he brings up are really old though and the rest are actually just him analyzing deeply for the sake of it, hence they dont affect me.

[Sheldor]

Just ignore him, or be nice to him. Then, when he's saying rude things and you're being perfectly civil, he'll look like a douchebag and leave you alone because of it.


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[formanmark]

Well there 3 options.
1 ignore the people giving you stick.
2 give them stick back
3 next time he comes up about to give you abuse punch him square in the nose.

Simples



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