Real Teens Speak Out

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.

How I Started Getting Bullied

I’m in high school and the bullying still happens to me. It started in 6 grade I used to get bullied by these group of girls but i barely said anything to them about it though because I didn’t want to stick up for myself and I never would say anything. I used to go home to my mom crying everyday because I got bullied she used to get onto me because I put up with it and never told. It started one day to where I went in class crying and the teacher took me out in the hallway and I told her what was going on and she sent me to the office. That was one of the hardest days of my life. From then on the big group of girls called me a snitch that’s what I was known for to them. So to say don’t be scared to tell if anything telling will do you a lot better instead of letting it bring you down. ADVICE- Bullying is not cool and I wouldn’t ever advice people to do it to others then let it happen around me because of what I have been through… DON’T BULLY……

Acne Monster

When I was in the seventh grade, I had many friends and many of classmates wanted to be friends with me. I do not know what charm I had back then, but everything changed when we entered the eighth grade. Things on my face started to appear, and these were pimples and acne. My pimples started to grow and many just keep on appearing until they covered a big portion of my forehead and cheeks. My parents told me it’s just normal to have pimples, same as my friends but I had classmates who were disgusted of it just because they don’t have it on their faces. Then, they called me names like acne monster, walking acne, volcano-faced, fireworks, crater-faced and many other names. It caused so much depression to me. They don’t get near me not unless they need something but when they don’t need anything, I’m invisible. The name-calling stopped when I was in the tenth grade. It was an emotionally depressing experience but I know, some of you underwent more terrible things. Stay strong guys, don’t believe in what they say. Just be yourself and believe in yourself!

Being bullied

I was bullied most of my life,had people talk about my dad when they have both parents where as I don’t I didn’t even get to see my father because he passed away before I was even born.see because of the pain I have now I don’t even want to be here any more,now what they need to learn is that if you bully someone you can cause them alot of pain so don’t even think about being a bully.

Bullying start when i’m in grade 5th in elemtary school until junior high school. I dont know why, but i think she and her friends start bully me with no reason. I’m a good student and have a lot of friends until that day She tell the other student to keep away from me, she tell everyone that i’m bad. But i’m not. She makes everyone believe her and make me doesn’t have friends. They always call me with weird name, judge me when i try to tell my parents/teacher, and judge me in social media. I’m always crying at night. Until that day when my parents ask me about that, and my parents said to my teacher to stop this bullying. When I ask her “why you do that to me?” and she said “because i dont like you.” I dont understand why people like that? Why she bully me with no reason like that? Just because she dont like me?

Childhood pain

I strive to achieve my goals and have amazing parents that look after me every day. The one thing that I would like to tell you all to remember, “Everything happens for a reason.” Nothing more and nothing less. True friendship will never be swayed by others and objects. Friendship is the connection between you and another. If your friend is swayed by those other objects or people then they do not deserve your time of day. “Friends come and go, but true friendship will last forever.” (I know its cheesy, but its true) 🙂

Life is totally what you make it!

When I was a kid in elementary school, I found myself to be easily excited and happy. Little did I know the kids around me tugged at my hair, teased me about my love life and laughed when I spoke. As I grew older middle school was just a place to wreck me. People judged me for the smallest of things- mostly a loser.
But as I went to high school, It is the act of judgment: a form which leads to bullying, my physical looks of an Asian Indian girl with puffy hair, glasses, slightly bigger eyes and nose, no makeup, was an indicator of a weakness. I was lonely and wanted to badly fit in so I went on social media random FB messaging and therefore got ridiculed and eventually ostracized and labeled as some loser. But it was what I realized I was never one because others judgments won’t matter. I’m not a clone of society, I’m just me.

Another truth: It is also more about how people judge one another without knowing them first

You are not alone

I made a Facebook account and you knows these email you send that said ‘if you don’t send this in the next 24 hours, something will happen…’. Well, I had one and send it to a group of people. These girls from my old school were included. They started bullying me. There was about twenty to thirty people in that group chat on Facebook. No one did anything. They let them bully me. One person told them to stop. I never thanked them and now, I think that I will write to that person and thank him. Because if he hadn’t…I wouldn’t be here today. But now, I’m glad that I am still alive, breathing. I lived so many things these past few years. Being bullied made me realize something. That you can keep going forwards because great things will happen. Actually, I don’t regret everything that had happened to me. It made me stronger. If I wasn’t here today, I wouldn’t have started acting classes, I wouldn’t start writing stories, I wouldn’t have been happy. We have dark times and it’s normal, but if you can survive them, beautiful things will happen.
I never shared my story before, but to all people out there, who are getting bullied. Be strong. Be confident. Tell someone. It has to stop because it’s not okay.