Why didn't I leave?

I sometimes get asked why I stayed somewhere that made me so unhappy for so long and why I didn't just go to another school. I mean my parents did ask me but I declined the offer to move me somewhere else. Not only because I know it would have been hassle but I was convinced that the same thing would happen there too. The bullies had reduced me to having such a low opinion of myself that I felt that I didn't deserve to be anywhere else because I couldn't fit in where I was. How could I fit in anywhere else? The problem would still occur there. Even once the problem was gone, I would be there and I would become the problem. The thing I got bullied for may have gone but I would always have been the girl who had had such an issue, I would still have the stigma attached. I guess another part of the reason I didn't leave is because I felt that the bullies should see that I could do well for myself and I also hoped that one day they would see me in a different light. This day came for me eventually however the stigma never fully went away. I did get to show everyone eventually that I was just the same and it worked so I guess I got Lu ky .