Quote Originally Posted by XanBcoo
At my high school there was this one guy who everyone hated/picked on. I thought it was just the usual schoolyard dynamics of "cool people > geeks" going on, and kinda felt sorry for him until I actually spoke to the guy. Took me about 15 seconds to realize he was not only socially retarded, but also a complete ass-hole. He completely deserved everything he got.
The thing about that is, a lot of the way he acts now is self-defense to all the other bs he's put up with in his life. He's going to spend the rest of his life on guard, just waiting for the next person who was nice to him to suddenly turn their back on him and treat him like shit. It's a vicious cycle. Is he the cause of his pain, or the product of it? Probably a bit of both.