School was a horrible experience for me, and not a time in my life I would ever care to repeat. That actually makes me a little sad, because most people I know have this 'romanticised' view of school and say things like "god I wish I could go back to school again, instead of being a grown up".

I was bullied from day one of primary school (age 5) and the bullying didn't stop until I left at age 16. Even when I went to college I ended up leaving after one year because I just couldn't fit in and was always left standing outside in a corner somewhere on my own out of fear.

The worst part of it all, I think, was that there were several occasions where the other kids would harass me in classrooms and the teachers would even laugh at some of the things they were saying to me. At one point I stood up for myself and told the people to "**** off and leave me alone", this was when a teacher took notice and I was given detention...

I ended up really screwing up my exams in my last couple of years there because I just couldn't face going, so I would feign illness to get out of school and ended up missing most of my classes. That's not how it should have gone.