I guess you didn't have any older brother's?!?! I have 2 that would beat the sh!t out of me and so when I went to school they toughened me up. I still remember the time on the school bus this girl would not stop (she had nasty @ss braces too I remember) and had a long braided pony tail down to her butt. One day she said something walked by me and I grabbed her pony tail and flipped her over backwards and told her I was going to rip it off, spit flying pissed off, she was screaming like a girl and crying. Then another time some girl would just run her mouth, and so I leveled her into a thorn bush (it was summer and she was in a tank top and shorts) well she was crying because obviously she was then wearing thorns. I didn't think she had enough when she walked out so I picked her up and literally threw her back in and push the branches into her. The third time was a guy and he just kept saying stupid stuff so I punched him in the face and gave him a bloody nose and he went crying home to his mother. I even delt with his mom afterwards and then she looked at him and said,"Nick, it looks like you deserved it get in the house." Then I got in trouble one day in first grade because the girl dared me to say the word penis out loud. So I just started yelling it and dancing around and then I got in trouble and had detention.
Besides that I never got picked on really and never got in trouble. Gotta thank having older brothers for something they instilled in me!