Real Teens Speak Out

As someone who has been and currently is a victim of bullying, I want people to know that it can have very long-lasting and negative effects. While it might seem amusing to YOU to comment or go out of your way to show how you feel about someone’s “embarrassing” style, hair, music taste, habits, appearance, etc, it is not funny to the person on the other end. Bullying is more prevalent now than ever before because of our generation’s addiction to social media and the peer pressure that it creates. Over the course of my life, I’ve seen the nice kids I grew up with turn into horrible monsters who don’t care about their life or education, don’t care about kindness, and who bully people online and in person to the brink of suicide. They walk around glued to their phones and don’t respect anyone outside of their cliques. I currently go to an alternative school of about 300 kids who are there because they cannot go to the other schools in our district. I am one of the only few who are there for mental health reasons and every day I walk the halls, there’s condescending looks and derogatory slurs thrown at me. I have so many targets on my back that I’m practically free game: I’m queer, I’m pale, I’m emo, I’m chubby, I’m smarter than most of the kids in my generation, and I don’t really follow any trends or norms. I live in a very conservative and religious community where all of those things make me vulnerable. I’ve gotten all kinds of bullying from dirty looks to death threats. I’ve been bullied at school, bullied at work, bullied in treatment centers, and even just out in public. I don’t have any friends or supportive family members and have a lot of restrictions on what I can do but I keep going in hope of pursuing a bright future. If I weren’t as strong as I am, I guarantee I would’ve succeeded in taking my life when I attempted to do so. The main reason I even attempted in the first place is because I couldn’t go anywhere without being bullied, teased, ignored, or othered by my classmates. In repetitive and extreme cases, bullying causes negative self-image, psychological disorders, and even suicidal idealization and attempts. I have seen the horrible effects of bullying on one too many people, including myself and I want everyone who reads this to know that bullying is NEVER okay.

I was friends with bullies

I have always been a very good person and kind. My sophomore year I started hanging out with the wrong crowd of people. I wanted to be cool and to be liked by them so I started bullying this one kid so they would like me. I really regret it to this very day.

worst day ever

last year i was in 6th grade starting my new life at a new school so when the year started i got pantsed in front of the whole school and everyone saw me like that then laughed at me, its the most humiliating moment of my life and i cry every time i think about it

I had toxic friends that basically bullied me for around 2 years in middle school.

It started with the five of us. We would always get in “arguments” which was basically randomly ghosting each other and then becoming friends again. They insulted each other to the point that i felt scared to actually share my feelings. One day they dropped one of the girls. I still feel guilty about that tbh… Couple months later in the last month of school they dropped me. No reason given. All i did all day was cry. I was so depressed to the point where i was on the verge to self h@rm. I had no friends for all the fun activities for the last week of school and i had no friends heading into my new classroom. I’m over them now that i have new better friends. But i still wonder why me? What did i do?

Im being “cyberbullied” by some little kids in elementary school that barely know me

One of my best friends, male friends and two of his friends have been “cyberbullying” me. They have been calling me “fat” and “big back” and other things like that for absolutely no reason. I barley know these kids and they have something against me. I have been struggling with thinking im fat myself and this is not helping. My best friend was private texting me saying “end their whole career” “roast them” etc and I cant. Normally being called names dont hurt but for some reason this really does hurt.

I’ve been bullied so bad I wanted to hurt myself

My “friends” are bullies! 🙁

This is not about school, it’s about this online website. I have been friends with these boys. But one day I saw them bullying a person who did something bad. So I made an important announcement that I was leaving my so-called friends for good. It was horrible that my friends bullied someone. Nobody deserves to get bullied, not even bad people.

I was bullied in elementary school

When I was in 4th grade I liked this one boy but there were 2 people who would always bully me because of it. They would laugh at me for it. They would go out of their way to make me feel miserable. I finally stood up to them one day and then I reported them to the principal.

School Bench

In 4th grade I was bullied everyday at recess. I would play tag with these 3 girls and I was never fast enough to get the other girls when I was it. I would run for 30 minutes trying to get them but they were too fast and I was too slow so I would just wear myself out for no fun reason at all. After playing weeks of tag with those girls I didn’t feel like playing anymore. They would make fun of me and always tagged me on purpose because they knew I couldn’t catch them. I felt like I had no friends and I was scared to try to go out of my comfort zone to make new friends. The rest of 4th grade I sat on the bench at recess all alone. What I learned is don’t be scared to make new friends even if your old friends made you feel bad about yourself. Today I have many close friends that I know will be my lifelong best friends. Even if you feel like life isn’t going your way it will always work out in the end.

I got threatened that I would get physically attacked

My sophomore year of high school I got threatened that I would get physically attacked. It really affected me a lot