Ryan Hanley

So it was also fifth grade in which I like I would get tormented from leaving the classroom and like any day that it was nice out, we would walk from the classroom out to the playground.

Right.

And you do kickball or whatever we do that day.

And but there was like to get there, the teachers would basically push us out the door and there was like this.

backside of the building that we would walk down that was maybe a couple hundred feet before you got out to the fields and there'd be a different set of teachers out in the field making sure that everyone was you know doing whatever so there was a period of time where then these particularly these three kids would literally just torment the shit out of me that like from the moment we walked out of the building to the moment we got to the fields it would just be pure torment and um

I mean, I don't know that this is positive, but I eventually got so sick of it that one day I threw a punch at one of the kids.

I missed his face and hit him in the throat and he fell to the ground.

And I'm not saying that's positive, but it was certainly not, it's not, it wasn't positive.

It was, it was negative, right?

Like you shouldn't have to do that.

I do think, unfortunately the world works in a certain way, but like certain people just don't respond to anything else.

But that moment was,

Like it wasn't even though they from that moment on, they stopped bullying me because they knew that I would fight back.

It wasn't a positive moment.

Like, I don't look back on that and go like, oh, I'm so glad I had to throat punch a kid in fifth grade in order to get him to stop harassing me.

So.

I had a very similar thing where I didn't create a hard shell.

What I created was this like, if you can't keep up with me, too bad, I'm leaving you.

Like, get out of my way.

Like, I go 100 miles an hour.