mild bit of personal in regards to bullying:

I hadn’t realized until I watched that episode how much of a trigger bullying is for me. I mean, I was a badly picked on little kid and I know I still have a bucket of crap from the way I was treated, but seeing the way Sam was getting picked on just brought all of those emotions right back to the surface. And I wrote a damned fic about Dean getting bullied.

Still, interesting that even 25 years after the fact, seeing a little kid get picked on just brings all that gut-wrenching fear back to the surface. And mine was never physical, but getting told by your peers every single day that you’re stupid and ugly and worthless wears on a person…

i’ll shut up and stop being emo now.