The Boulder shooter was bullied in high school, so I need to say this. I have not forgotten. I still live with the trauma that was inflicted from those years and earlier years. I was diagnosed with Asperger's. I never responded to the taunts because of the backlash directed against me from the student and administration level. After an entire school year of near daily bullying, I would snap near the end of term, and I spent as many times at the end of the year suspended as I did in class. People would say I snapped then, but this is not true, I reached the end of tolerance for taking it, and moreover the effects of bullying is like boiling water in a covered pot — the pressure builds. This shooter was bullied in high school and has been described as "snapping" without provocation, but that negates what he and other bullying victims suffer when they are still in that same environment. The shooter was wrong to take out his suffering on the people of Boulder, and my heart is pained at the losses. I still — over 20 years after high school — remember my bullies, and I have not forgiven them. Being bullied made me nervous with crowds, and it made me look for exits, places where I can limit anyone from coming at me and keep a wall to my back. Being bullied broke my humanity. The shooter was wrong, but someone broke his humanity long before he took up an assault rifle.