ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author conveys an autoethnographic story that explores the complexities of identity and well-being for youth who are involved in bullying. Of particular interest are ways of performing resilience within the process of enduring bullying and feelings of dis-ease that stems from feeling, and being, “different.” Rooted in experiences from his youth, the author explores several interrelated and influential resilience practices that accompany the pain and suffering of being bullied. Overall, this account aims to trouble taken-for-granted notions of identity commonly used in discourse about bullying and advocate bullying selves as being more fluid and multiple than static and singular.
