Real Teens Speak Out

new student

it was third grade. a kid jairo a has came to my class. i said hi but he did not said anything back. at the play ground he made me his target to pick on me. i felt hurt. no hope, no friends, no way to get out. i talk to my teacher about it. she just gave him a detention. every year i face bulling to any bully. i hear the storys i hear every thing. i here to go not alone to bulling. we will all stand up to anything. me, my friends, and my teachers will or can stop bulling.we all need to stand up….for all and one.

Bullying is a very bad thing. It can lead to people hurting themselves, and becoming someone who they really aren’t. If you ever see bullying, then don’t try to interfere because 99.99% of the time, that will jut make the fight escalate and it will pull you into the drama/argument too! I never have been made fun of repeatedly, but there have been rumors spread about me in my 6th grade year. These girls were talking about me… and I thought about it like this, They are so interested in my life that they’re talking about me! They don’t even have a life so their trying to pick on mine.

about myself begin bully

I would always get bulling to death and I hate it because I would go to my room crying all the time and I wish it could stop. I remember I was in dance class and my friend came up to me and said this girl in the pink shirt said about u that you are not a good dancer and that really hurt my feelings . I hate when people bulling me and another people around me . till this day I get bullied a little and I stop me and I am happy to say that im bulling free .

You’re Worth It!

I am currently 26 years old, when I was in school since the 2nd grade I was bullied. It was all kinds of different things; my clothes, my weight, my quietness (which was because of the bullying), being “alone”, how good I got along with my teachers. I have learned that some of that bullying has been because of a lack of understanding. Some of it was the difference of priorities between them and myself and the other was because I was “different” I never went to a school dance, football game or anything. I was going to go to prom until my grandmother died the night before. A lot of those bullies made me even more self conscious of myself. Some of it has stuck with me and some has not. Somethings have changed and some haven’t. Some of those bullies are now friends on facebook and some of them are still like they were in school. A few of them have written me and told me that my faith inspires them, which made me feel good. Bullying hurts, I almost failed a class because of it, but while we have people who bully us we also have those who care about us. The ones who care are the ones who get us through the rough spots.

My advice to you is this- There are always going to be more people who care about you than you know. Even if you find just one strong friend you have outweighed all of those bullies. My faith was my serenity. You’re not the anything they tease you to be. You’re identity is in who you were created to be and the purpose you were given, don’t let anyone else who is just as equal is you tell you how awful you are. Remember this, we are all different no matter how many are in a group, or how “big” or “powerful” the bully is they all have a different finger print, they are themselves and you are you, both with flaws and both with gifts. You’re worth it!

The Right Way

Singer-Songwriter Cat London and her production team went to Middlesex High School (NJ) and asked students to volunteer their opinion on what it means to treat others #TheRightWay. Thanks to Vince Inciong, music teacher at MSH and videographer of #TheRightWay, their kindness initiative unfolded through the voice of his students.

#TheRightWay is a bullying awareness and kindness campaign that grew out of London’s song, “The Right Way.” The duet features two young people struggling with acceptance, empathy, and bullying. The song makes us recognize that we are the same, we feel the same pain, but we might not realize it.
We’re increasing awareness that we, as humans and peers, can achieve more through compassion, understanding, and willingness to dissolve barriers that perpetuate anger, hatred, and bullying.

A free download of The Right Way is available on NoiseTrade.com.

Good Enough

Everyday, ever since I was in second grade I think, I have been bullied by someone. I am very skinny, and I never thought it was a bad trait to have, until a group of 3 or 4 boys started calling me toothpick. During class, they would make a snapping motion, as if breaking a twig, and point to me. They told me I was not good enough. I started eating more to gain weight, but it seemed it never worked. Eventually, I gained weight, and the boys started calling me marshmallow, fat, and chubby. I was still the skinniest, but I did not know because I listened to them. I started losing a lot of weight, and I only weighed 75 pounds. Then, I met a girl who the boys called chubby. I stood up for her, and we became best friends. The teacher would tell the boys to stop in her kindest voice, and they just laughed. I grew up going to class with the same people, and the same boys that bullied me. In the end, it was my best friend who taught me that I could stand up for myself as I did with her. I stood up with myself, and one of the bullies started being really nice and made a complete turnaround. We were almost BFFs because I stood up for myself, and I stood up for myself because I stood up for someone else. As bystanders, we should not just stand by-we need to stand up. Together, we can all be "good enough" because everyone has a flaw that we just have to accept, instead of bringing others down. That is what makes us different from the bullies.

New School

If you’ve ever gone to a new school, you can sympathize. I didn’t have very many friends there, just one. She invited me to her “group” and I enjoyed it, however, one girl quite obviously didn’t like me. I’d see her whispering to everyone except me and then look at me and giggle. I noticed this quickly and addressed it to my friend, she understood and she talked to the girl. The girl did not take this well, she contined being mean to me and my friend.

Strong Enough

The students of South Jr. High and Cloud City Boyz want to tell targets of bullying that they are STRONG ENOUGH. This campaign encourages targets of bullying to share their stories anonymously on a Facebook group. This music video features 6th grade students singing to reach out to other victims of bullying – and let them know that they are STRONG ENOUGH to overcome bullying!

Credits to: Cloud City Boyz, (Tyler Lydeen, Leroy Hirlder) Janey Neal, City House Records LLC and Videographer David Rossow of WhirlyBird Media LLC.

No Help!

I got bullyed bad, yes it hurt! And it made it worse that my school did nothing! I’m sick of people sugar coating it! Bullying is bullying! Both things something needs to happen!

Cyber-bullying

I had been bullied before (it was playground-type bullying) but once i joined this fandom on Twitter, they took bullying to a higher level. I joined the fandom during the summer, I was honestly just looking for something to pass the time. Everyone was very welcoming and I started to make friends, or at least I thought they were my friends. There were 4 people, lets call them Jackson, Sandy, Mitchell and Yanda. I thought were my best friends. I told them everything because they made me feel safe and loved to some extent. I would’ve done anything and everything for them. After being close friends with them for about 4-5 months, I had found out that they started doing things without me (Skype calls, group chats etc), which doesn’t seem like much but it did to me, considering I was the only person they were excluding. I asked Yanda, the one that introduced me to them (I was closer with her than any of the other people) what was going on. She responded, saying that they just didn’t want to bother me. Which I thought was a little odd. These people weren’t the best of people. I knew that they bullied other people in the fandom, which I knew was wrong from the beginning but I just wanted some friends so I didn’t let it get to me. Anyway, after Yanda told me they just didn’t want to bother me, I just let it slide but I kept my distance for a while.

During that time, I met someone, lets call her Linda, who was also in the fandom and we became very close. She started introducing me to her friends and they were all really fun and welcoming. I became very close to these people until Jackson, Sandy, Mitchell and Yanda found out. When they found out, they insisted that I should stop talking to them because they were “weird”. So me being the person I am, I started to distance myself from those really nice people. Once I did so, I re-joined the cliche (or the cool people of the fandom) aka, Jackson, Sandy, Mitchell and Yanda. They soon started to make fun of the people I used to be friends with and it made me really uncomfortable but I just didn’t say anything. Over the course of 2 weeks, Jackson, Sandy, Mitchell and Yanda made private Twitter accounts to talk badly about people and once I found out, I requested to follow. I found it kind of odd that they didn’t tell me about these accounts but I decided to over look it. It took them all a while to accept my request, but once they did, I saw that they had deleted some tweets. I then, confronted them about it and they became very rude to me.

After that, they stopped talking to me and blocked me on their private accounts. I of course, was hurt. They ignored me for about 4 weeks and during that time, I started talking to those really nice and welcoming people again. Apparently, Sandy accidentally accepted one of my new friends’ (lets call him Adam) request on their private account and Adam saw that they were saying horrible things about me behind my back (and none of it was true). Once Adam told me, I got really upset and wanted to talk about it with the people who were talking badly about me. Yet, when I tried to do that, they ignored me and called me desperate. Right after that, they started talking about me on their main (public) accounts that I followed so they clearly wanted me to see what they were saying. I started to respond to their tweets, asking them what they were talking about and things just got worse. Jackson, Sandy, Mitchell and Yanda started turning people against me and started using things that I told them against me. I felt like everyone hated me and I couldn’t talk to anyone, let alone trust anyone. I went away for a while to get some fresh air and when I came back, Adam told me they were saying stuff about me. Some of the things were “She’s a literal sociopath and not a very good person. Stay away from her!!!!” “She was a rat and started f*** loads of drama. She’s disgusting.” “She’s so problematic. What a b****.” “She’s a little cuckoo. Don’t ever come into contact with her.”. I was so confused on how they even came up with that stuff because I am none of those things & I did none of those things. I was nothing but nice to them.

After all of that, I told everyone that I was deactivating because I have better things to do & it was a very toxic environment. I then left, knowing that they were still going to talk about me. Once my account was deactivated for good, they took my username and were saying stuff like “Ding, Dong the witch is gone” etc. I got on with my life and made new friends in real life, people I knew I could trust. Flash forward 4 months, I decided to make a personal (not fan based) Twitter account to keep up with my friends. Somehow, the people from the fandom I was in found me. I wanted nothing to do with them but yet they were saying stuff like “what happened to never coming back? can we go back to that please?” and “the living dead rat!!”. They eventually stopped talking about me (it took 2 months) and now I’m so much happier. I still don’t fully understand why they did all of that stuff to me, and it’s not my place to, but I apparently wasn’t the only person they had done this to. Just know that you’re not alone and it honestly gets better. Just try and stand up to them or distance yourself from them, and know that what they are saying about you is no where near true.