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Hi everyone, welcome back to the podcast. I'm Gaya. I'm Thomas. I'm Mark. I'm Isaac. I'm Kayla.

And welcome back to our 53rd episode where it's year two of Teenage Baby.

Hi, here's two. So our friends over at the Blue Fever Big Sis energy podcast are talking about bullying this month.

And they reached out to us to see if we would be interested in sort of doing an episode on bullying as well.

And we thought it was a really cool idea because we actually had some things we thought we could talk about that.

We don't really see, get talked about very often and that is the bullying that occurs inside Frank Groups.

I think when most people think of bullying, they think of the classic someone pushing you against the locker or something.

But I think there's a really, really common trend nowadays especially that it's your own friends that bully you. Have you ever experienced that?

I guess. I mean, it's mainly a joke but I can see why I think there has been times where I didn't take it as a joke. You know, I actually felt bad.

I don't think I have or I can't think of a time where they did.

Sometimes to a really close experience, I can find myself being mean. So now that I think of it, I don't know if the counts as bullying.

But it's kind of like the thing you do with like your best friend. And what about you though? Have you ever for me? No, I really have.

No. I mean, I'd say so. But I don't usually take it to heart or I don't really think of it as a big deal.

Yeah, I think a lot of people are in the boat. We asked you guys questions and a lot of you waited on it, which I thought was interesting because it seems like a lot of people go through this.

I think it's pretty common. But you know, like Isaac said, I think I definitely have had in the past. You also used to be that way.

I think I used to say really mean jokes and be very degrading towards some of my friends, my closest friends because I think the closer you get with someone, the more entitlement you feel towards treating them the way you want to.

So you know how when you first meet someone, you know, you want to treat them as best as you can.

Yeah, you're super nice. And then once you got used to it, once they become your best friend, you like kind of treat them like as if they're less valuable somehow.

Yeah. So I think when I was younger, maybe seven eighth grade, maybe even freshman year, I definitely used to treat some of my closest friends like that.

And then I guess I just kind of started being a lot more self-aware. And I just realized I didn't kind of had to put myself in their shoes and really think have they done that to me.

And I realized that my friends never did that to me. You know, they were always really supportive. And I really admired that in them. So I tried to make a more conscious effort to support them and not be degrading the way I used to be.

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