I got attacked by a mentally ill guy having some sort of freak-out: He came up, told me he was stressed out, then started punching me in the arm. I backed up just out of punching distance but still in kicking distance, squared off, and warned him to leave. Someone who was with him kinda dragged him off before he could close the gap again so things didn’t escalate past that, but my plan was to teep him in the guts/chest as hard as I could if he came at me again.

Not sure if the time I was held at gunpoint by Chinese soldiers counts as a “physical altercation”, so I’ll say it was the time a “friend” decided his drug problems were all my fault and he headbutted me out of nowhere.

It happened when I was in kindergarten. I was sitting next to a friend on the bus and she got into an argument over something with the two boys across the aisle. Being that we were all 5 year olds, this quickly devolved into name calling. I particularly got into it with one of the boys and he threatened to punch me if things kept going. I though he was bluffing and we all continued with the verbal slap fight until the bus arrived at the school. At that point we got off and lined up to enter the building. Everything seemed to be over at that point. It was not. He delivered on his threat.

He was immediately taken to the principal and I was sent to the nurse. The next day all four of us had to apologize.

I get approached by weirdos on the subway/street and I have to shove them off. That happens 1-2 times a year. It never really escalates beyond a ‘get out of my face’ and a push.

A legit fistfight? Not since middle school. Had quite a few when I was 10-13.

Been physically hit or threatened with a weapon? Happened multiple times when I was dating, but I stopped doing that about 5 years ago. Almost always during a breakup or immediately before a breakup. I don’t tolerate violent women in my life. I can’t really tell people this though, because people immediately assume a woman threatening to stab you for breaking up with her means you are the bad guy. Sexism is wild.

Up to you if this counts because no one was hurt. I regularly go to therapy and it’s in a hospital. At the entrance there is a guard station and they ask anyone who enters where they’re going and whatnot. I find this pretty stressful, as I don’t like sharing private information like that. Sometimes I give answers that are a little evasive, like “treatment”.

One time apparently he was a bit suspicious of me so he told me to told me to step aside as he let other people in. I was already late so this really stressed me out, there were like 6 people behind me and it felt like an eternity. It felt like such bullshit. So when I saw an opportunity I just tried to sprint through.

But dang, that guy knows how to do his job. He caught me and physically held be back like I was nothing. (And honestly I kind of am nothing, I don’t exercise or anything). I might as well have tried to run through a wall. That was that, no hitting or anything. Eventually another guard came and cleared me to go inside.

As I said, I wasn’t hurt and I don’t think he was either, but it still was a physical altercation IMO. For what is worth, I was never angry at him as an individual, he was doing his job… It’s the policy that I’m angry about. It’s a freaking hospital, about half the reasons you go there are reasons you don’t want to say aloud. It’s a dumb policy.

held my smaller dog in defense of my older dogs food he’s a rowdy fella

Nearly 20 years ago, first year of uni, living on my own in a big city.

I was riding a metro back home, messaging my then gf, when some dude grabbed and pocketed my phone. He had a friend with him. I asked him politely to give it back to me, he told me to go fuck my mum, so I started swinging.

I landed a few punches to each one before they started kicking me into a corner. They stopped and jumped out the metro at the next station and I did not dare give chase.

There were a few people in the metro who had seen everything, and no one had come to my help. In the heat of the moment, I may or may not have shouted a bunch of abuse at them which was very stupid and I regret.

We were both banned for the following 2 years from that [un]fair.

Ftfy

Does hitting one’s self count?

Only once in my life. A bully (like Eric Cartman but taller) tried to show his strength to the school during recess and I was the designated victim: shy introvert and visually weak.

Everyone is surrounding us like a WWE cage match, watching because for some reason violence attracts idiots.

The fight starts with him kicking me as hard as he can in the thigh. There is one small problem though: my whole legs are hard as fuck maybe due to my good genetics. I don’t feel anything and I don’t move. The guy stops fighting as soon as he started.

High School, Self Defence, got arrested. School administration sided against me and call the cops. I was 17. School district then tried to expel me, but failed. Charges eventually got dropped. I ended up just hating school and authority¹, I just took the GED, I got high scores on it without studying (I mean it aint hard, just basically highschool speedrun via a test that takes like a few hours in total time, I know the stuff already). USA btw.

(¹I mean, who doesn’t hate authority, that’s like American tradition, lol)

I have to thank my mother for becoming a citizen and therefore I automatically derived citizenship (under the Child Citizenship Act), so I already had citizenship several years prior to this incident. I can’t imagine the alternate-timeline of the possibility of being deported for a stupid school fight (I mean it’s a hypothetical worst-case scenario, not sure if that would actually happen in practice for something that small, but then-again this was during trump term 1 so… 🤷‍♂️ anything could happen).

My Mandarin skills are like… 2nd grade level last time I’ve been in school in China, if I got deported, not sure I’d survive in that society, especially in this scenario, I’d be separated from my family that are probably gonna stay in the US and I probably get left behind.

Hypothetical alternate timelines always hurts my brain just thinking about them…

I think I had a few fights in like elementary school, I was always the one getting bullied for some reason… always on the defence, I never even provoked a fight. What the fuck is this life.

The guy kicked my car because I agreed with the female cashier at the 7/11 that he should leave and so I got out of the car and he pulled a gun on me. I told him to fucking do it and instead he walked away.

Last year. My four year old was throwing a tantrum, so I carried/wrestled her to her room until she cooled down and was ready to talk about it.

Outside of that, I was routinely kicked and punched every Tuesday and Thursday from 2016 to 2020 at Karate practice. You should’ve seen the other guy; not a scratch, as we were both wearing proper gear.

Outside of that, I broke a guys nose in self defense in 2006.

When I was in the police, over 10 years ago.

I used to love a good scrap

Somewhere over fourty years ago, i was fed up being bullied by a rich asshole in school again and again and again. So I hit him, just once, decking him and making him lose a number of front teeth.

At least he learned that lesson. He never bothered him again.