Aisling* looked at me as if I had two heads. Of all the things she expected to hear in a therapy session, this wasn’t it. Seeing that she was confused, I gently repeated the question. “So, if they all thought you were a duck, would it make you a duck?” And with that simple statement, Aisling understood why she felt so disempowered to the bullies in her school. This understanding then opened the door to a solution that would protect her from ever being the victim of bullying again. By blindly accepting her bully’s opinion of her, without ever questioning it, Aisling was totally vulnerable to the exclusion and character assassination that she had been experiencing.