I want to rain on her anti-bullying parade.
Sometimes I scroll through FB and see an old roommate of mine posting vehemently anti-bullying articles, pictures, statuses and so forth. I feel the urge to call her out on it as she was one of the biggest bullies I had dealt with in my childhood. She was in her early 20's when I was about 12 and she moved in. She was the one to rely on to talk down to me, to threaten me and to punish me on behalf of my Mom who I have a very dark history with in terms of the things she let my Dad do to my sister and I.
Now I am in my mid-20's and work with troubled teens myself. I have worked with children from 10 years of age up to young adults and the concept of doing to them what she did to me seems sadistic in many ways. I knew this even when I was the age she was.
So I sit here and look at the shit she posts and even though I'm not horribly upset and I'm willing to consider that maybe she changed her approach to people she deems "inferior" to her, I do wonder what it would do to her self-perceived nobility if I were to casually mention that she loved taking my stuff, fabricating stories for the police and talking down to me for the simple crime of escaping physical abuse and speaking to my own father. I kind of get a kick out of the fact that she would particulate in activism while and after endorsing physical, sexual and emotional abuse toward children.
Are my feelings normal?