Real Teens Speak Out

Stay Strong – Speak Up

If there were ANYTHING I would do differently back then, it would be to TELL PEOPLE what pain I was in. If you’re worried about crying in front of someone else, trust me, everyone cries whether they admit it or not. Everyone. It may feel like no one cares, but the truth is some do NOT while many WOULD if only they knew. No one is going to tap you on the shoulder and ask if you are in pain. If I could go back, I’d start telling my story much sooner.
I wish love and strength to any and everyone struggling to cope with OTHER PEOPLE’s problems being kind! Good luck and be strong!

why me

why did it have to be me who got bullied. i get bullied so much i don’t even care any more. i got bullied all the way since first grade i also get cyber bullied i am told to kill myself so please help me.

Bullying

I’ve been bullied for practically as long as I remember. It all starts with someone to full of them selves or just a little to greedy to want to do something so cowardly such as bullying. My most recent memory has got to be my later years of primary and my most recent years of high school. I, frankly, have never truly bounced back from any of this and let it get to me, It started with the “Sporty kids” and all I wanted to do was play with them. But I never got passed to because I wasn’t “good enough”. At first this doesn’t really count as bullying but then it turn into not picking me, tripping me and it almost seemed to evolve into this constant verbal abuse and been beaten up EVERY day. I would come home crying thinking that I wasn’t worth anything and that I had only been put on this world to be tormented and that life wasn’t on my side. I was going through a tough time. Still today I let it get to me and its to late to forget what I’ve been told. its apart of me and ill never be as happy or the same again. I’m still alive today and im improving with friends by my side but yet I don’t feel whole. The whole point of this article is to let go of my inner feelings and the stuff I haven’t told anyone but the main point is stay with people who really love you and know that life only gets better… especially for YOU! : )

Alone

I have selective mutism and I’m also on the autism spectrum so I find it hard to talk to people. I’ve never had many friends either. In my primary school I was teased a bit but I had friends. In my first secondary school I was put in a special needs unit with people older than me who I didn’t know. I hated it there and I was eventually pulled out of that school and home schooled. After about a year I decided to go to a different school. This school was huge with about 900 other students. I made friends with one girl but she frequently left me out and went off to talk to other people. I was called names everyday and laughed at. They called me Anne Frank and Maddie no friends everyday. I didn’t tell anyone but I really regret that now. I endured the bullying for years until I had finally had enough and refused to go anymore. I now have barely left the house for years and when I do I feel like everyone is staring at me and I feel like I can’t breathe. I’m now under pressure to go back to school or to try college but I’m really scared that the bullying will start again. I have no friends, nobody to talk to and I have no idea what to do now.

Dark past

I been bullied since I was elemetry school, I dont have many friends and I love to draw, one day in the class I was drawing then suddenly one of my classmate came to me and take my drawing paper and tore it up without reason and say something that hurt my feelings, now in break time and different bully came to me and want my money, if I dont give him his money he gonna beat me up to pulp.

And now secondary school, I though I escape those nightmare but it getting worst and darker, my own classmate ganging up against me, they spit me, call name, put a staple on my chair, steal my stuff, ruin my work, prank on me, I don do anything to them I keep saying “why? Why?” deep in my heart what I’ve I done? They keep bully me and girl keep whispering and laugh at me, it happen like 4 year I endure this suffering, teacher don believe me, all of my class say “We not bully just joking” when teacher go they strike me.

Since my nan died

Since my Nan died it seems like my whole world has turned upside down and the bullying is only one of the major parts. It seems as the most important thing was taken away from me and this is what I get. Just the other day I was on the bus home from school and they started hitting me with the newspaper and I didn’t know what to do so I just took the pain. I sometimes feel like I am being punished and I sometimes I feel to scared to face myself. I just want the bullying to stop!!!!

So called best friend

If you’re being bullied it’s ok to talk to someone even to your parents I wish I talked to mine when it was happening but I didn’t , don’t do what I did and keep it bottled up because at one point your going to get choked up and you are going to break down its been 6 years and to this day I have not told anyone only my best friend and she is a very real person . Just remember don’t let it get to you I learned over the years to laugh with them to show them that it doesn’t bother you if you do that it will show them that you don’t care and it doesn’t affect you what they have to say . Bullying isn’t right and it’s a very fragile topic some people hate to talk about but sadly it’s a topic we all need to discuss.

It gets better

All through middle and high school I was bullied for being fat and dressing poorly, I never had any real friends the entire time I was in school. I fought with depression for awhile but when I graduated I took steps to better myself. Hit the gym, found some hobbies and eventually joined the military. 3 years later I am a military working dog handler and my life has done a complete 180. Life gets better when you get out of school. You make your own choices and associate with whoever you want.
Keep your head up.

Hi my name is Mary and I’m in year 12 at an all-girls school,
Three weeks ago I was accused of showing an inappropriate post on Facebook to a teacher, I was not the one to report this to the teacher however the post was inappropriate as it was slandering a teacher. I completely agree with whoever showed this post to the teacher because things like that should never be said let alone posted on Facebook. I also understand why whoever did ‘snitch’ hasn’t come forward after seeing the way that I have been treated by people who I thought were my friends. Since I was first accused of ‘snitching’ (as the girls like to put it) I have been verbally harassed with girls walking past me chanting snitch at me, girls telling me to go kill myself and also telling me that they would bash me. I have also been physically abused with girls pushing me over. I was pushed onto the busy road beside the school and also got pushed over at the train station where I could have been pushed onto the tracks. I have received snapchats with girls telling me to kill myself, and I have also been receiving notes shoved into my locker with the same thing, the teachers at my school have tried their best to help by moving my locker and having a chat to the girls but it hasn’t seemed to have worked.  These girls are about to legally become adults and the maturity that they show is not what you would expect from people who should know better. These girls keep pushing and pushing hoping to get a reaction from me but I refuse to give one. I’m not sure whether they are waiting for it to get to a point where I get pushed onto the road and killed. I’m at the point where I am done with their behaviour and I do not understand how they think this is even slightly acceptable. Girls always talk about being so close knit and how they back up their friends but through this event I have realised that most girls are not like this at all. I have ended up having to cancel my birthday party and I have also deleted Instagram, snapchat and removed all girls off my Facebook friend list. I thought I would share this not just so that people go oh she’s the girl who got bullied but so that people understand that they shouldn’t listen to rumours because those can ruin a person’s life and leave them in what is supposed to be the best year of their life as the worst. I’m not going to give in to these girls, they are not what makes me, me. My choices and how I feel about myself is what matters, not what these girls think of me. My dream would be for people to think about their actions and for them to realise that what they say does hurt.

Bullied everyday everywhere

I am in year 9 and I get bullied a lot, I have lost my close friends I have no one I spend lunch by my self, I get called names and get pushed and people constantly make fun of me and throw stuff at me and spread rumours. I have just deleted all social media as people swear at me and call me names, put me down and post things about me and everyone is against me and it makes me feel so worthless. I get phone calls and threats I have self harmed.  I’ve just had enough I’ve lost.