{"id":5723,"date":"2011-09-18T13:50:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T08:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writechoice.co.in\/writechoice\/?p=5723"},"modified":"2024-02-25T12:38:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T07:08:03","slug":"handwriting-of-bully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.writechoice.co.in\/writechoice\/handwriting-of-bully\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Spot a Bully by Looking at His Handwriting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Are you a bully?<\/p><\/div>\n

There are two kinds of people: those who bully, and those who get bullied.<\/p>\n

As a child, I fell in the second category. I was often bullied mainly because of my frail physique.<\/p>\n

It was so troubling at that time that though it’s been about 23 years since I saw them, I distinctly remember the faces of the two guys who would leave no chance to mess around with me \u2014 sometimes verbally and often physically.<\/p>\n

They terribly frustrated me, making me want to do to them what a group of friends did to Nick Stahl in a 2001 movie, Bully<\/em>: Kill them.<\/p>\n

But before I could execute my murderous plans, the two moved out of that residential area. They saved their lives and I strongly feel that their families should have at least sent me a Thank You note. But they did not show any gratitude.<\/p>\n

These two ungrateful guys were history for me till about three years ago when I came across the handwriting sample of a person who reminded me of them.<\/p>\n

Handwriting of a bully<\/h3>\n

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The handwriting was shown to me by a 40-something man who had contacted me after reading my graphology<\/a> articles in Mumbai Mirror.<\/p>\n

The sample belonged to his 15-year-old son.<\/p>\n

“This guy is giving you a tough time, isn’t he?” I said the first thing after looking at his handwriting.<\/p>\n

The well-built man just looked at me sternly without saying a word. I feared he might hit me for having got that wrong. Suddenly, he started coughing.<\/p>\n

I offered him a glass of water. A few seconds later, he said: “I am sick of my son’s behaviour. He does not listen to anyone. Hardly does a week pass when I don’t get complaints against him. I think he is getting out of hand. I punish him every now and then. But I am not able to beat sense into his head. I am tired of this, but he is not…”<\/p>\n

I said with nervous smile: “He has become an intractable boy… something like a bully…”<\/p>\n

“Oh yes!” he said, interrupting me. “He often beats up friends, forcibly snatches away their things. And I don’t know why he needs to do all that. There is nothing we deny him.”<\/p>\n

Our meeting went on for the next 40 minutes, during which the man talked about his son’s “bad” attitude and recounted how he had put him in trouble quite a few times.<\/p>\n

He also\u00a0spoke at length about his strong belief in the theory that children can be kept under control only if they are dealt with an iron fist.<\/p>\n

Ironic, isn’t it? I felt the same. With such a bully in his dad, the child could not have behaved otherwise. The boy, I got to know during the conversation, had all the reasons to become a bully:<\/p>\n