I was a 'weird kid' so was bullied, and hung out with other kids in the same category. Sadly, I'd occasionally bully younger and weaker kids too, in elementary school but got over it. In high school, shit got a bit more serious but by grade 11 most of us were maturing well and a former merciless bully of mine and I would hang out and smoke weed with some other guys and laugh. Never became great pals or anything, but it was a hell of an improvement to rabbit punches in the hallway and mockery in class. Only had a couple of situations where shit turned into real fistfights. Ironically by the time I started carrying a stiletto to bluff my way out of any serious hassling, the bullying ended before I needed to pull it.
On hindsight this is of course a good thing. A juvenile weapons charge would have left a lot of scrutiny on my back, and I was already having problems with our born-again Christian Vice Principal, because I was known to play Dungeons and Dragons with my friends, and therefore was 1 step away from being a Satanist according to him and he would have loved an excuse to expel me. He also allowed another student, a preacher's daughter, to do blatant evangelizing and give anti D&D presentations in the library on lunch periods. Thank FUCK that kind of person isn't allowed in high school administration any longer.
My best friend at the time (still is today, a couple decades later) was also bullied several times in elementary school, but upon a growth spurt (in size and confidence both) in 8th grade, he took all 3 of his bullies in succession out to the designated 'after school fight' area and proceeded to whip the ungodly shit out of all 3 (on different days) and leave them crying, showing these former terrors of smaller and nerdier kids up to be pathetic losers who were never able to bully anyone again that I ever saw.