Real Teens Speak Out

Cyberbullied

I was cyberbullied when I was in eight and ninth grade. I was harassed through texts and emails. I had death threats sent to me, and people accusing me of the cause of their own suicide. Messages saying that I should go kill myself, but then I wasn’t even worth it for the funeral. Oh the verbal abuse! There grew a point where their toxic words were like venom. It was a drug that I could never not read. For a while, I didn’t understand why. Why was it me that was being bullied? What did I do to deserve this? How could I fix this? It took a lot of time to learn how to be myself again. Through it all, I learned that we choose what we listen to, whether it is good or bad. I am now eager to graduate in a few months and am here to say that life, as cruel and relenting it can be, does have its blissful moments between its tempests.

So I live in Missouri and I’m 16 now but when I was in elementary school I was bullied every day on the bus and at school a boy who lives down the road from me would draw pictures of how he would blow my house up or bring a knife to school and show it to me and say he was gonna kill me with it. Well when I told the teachers they never did anything about it so I told my mom well she went to the principal but it didn’t really make an impact I still got bullied every day and threatened with the knife. This continued up till middle school then he would blame stuff on me and I would end up in trouble at one point I even contemplated killing myself. I got so tired of it I ended up on a contract with the principal at one point for something he did he always found a way to talk himself out of it. It continued on into high school but nothing really ever changed I still get bullied sometimes and I even resorted to cutting myself for a while. But eventually, I stopped.The boy still bullies me and threatens me but it is nowhere near as bad as it once was. high school has taught me to just paste on a smile cause teachers can’t stop everything. I’m a junior in high school right now and will be done soon so then I won’t have to worry about him anymore.

Post-Traumatic stress

My 6th grade year was terrible I was in a different country for a sabbatical year because my dad was working there. So basically I start school and everything is going ok until a girl in our class tried to kill herself becuase of these two kids and they made derogatory comments about her and mocked how she spoke and spread random whisper campaigns around to make her feel bad. As soon as I noticed this I took a stand against them and spoke publicly and said that what they did was wrong. At the start they just harassed me, but then it grow to physically assualting me and stabbing me with pencils and threatening to break my arm. Then they robbed me while holding me at knife point. I tried returning to my school which was very nice with great peers, but I had at that point serious depression and after three months I tried to kill myself. I ended up at the hospital for a week and a half where I would be released after promising to attend an outpatient program. I did and am doing much better but even though I hang out with friends and am back at school I still feel like a piece of me is missing. I recently helped a girl who was going through a lot of the same stuff that I went through only she went through it in the states at my old school. It really triggered me but I worked through it. I’m basically trying to say there’s always light at the end of the tunnel just push forward.

Are you gay?

Last year a person in my grade who used to be unpopular( like me), now is popular. They were dared by someone to ask me out as a joke. I assumed that’s what it was, and said no,they then said, “why did you say no, is it because your gay or something”, after that I didn’t really respond, because I am gay and haven’t come out. But after he asked me that he prodded more saying stuff like,”will you go out with her”, and more along those lines. He then started telling people that I was gay. I mean, I know it’s not the worst insult, but it really made me so embarrassed, and sad. Just seeing how people reacted to his joke.

Soccer Coach

I don’t if this would count as bullying or not but here it goes. When I was 12 I had started playing soccer the first few practices were pretty good. The co-coach was always nice and gave me tips but the coach was one of the rudest people I had ever met. He would always yell at us when we wouldn’t make a goal or would laugh because someone said something funny. One practice he called one girl on the team a dog and made her cry. The same practice everyone had a partner they would pass the ball to. I was with my bestfriend and we decided to drop kick the ball to each other. I wasn’t very good but wanted to practice more and he came up to me and said “Stop wasting your time and my time. You will never be a goalie and won’t get good drop kicks.” I was pissed at him I wanted to yell but my friend said not to. Throughout the season he wouldn’t lighten up with talking down to us and saying we weren’t good enough.

Kids think im gay and make fun of me because of it

It started in high school around 10th grade(now a senior) and everyday i would get called a faggot or gay i didnt really care but i thought it needed to get looked into because one of those kids ended up getting into alot of fights

When i got bullied.

okay so i came from maryland and moved to another school in 6th grade. These mean girls were looking at me funny the whole entire school day. but i didnt think nothing of it.The next day they tried to fight me, etc., and throw stuff at me.

Why?

I am generally a very anti social person, however, I don’t see a problem with that, I take this bus that takes me to and from school, two boys would tease me about my breasts, that they are really big,and sometimes they would just try to annoy me, I try my best to ignore them. I got really angry and I almost hit one of them. I don’t like being teased, its not a good feeling. I need help, I’m too embarrassed to tell anyone because they’ll think that I’m weak. I don’t want to live like this any longer. I don’t know what to do.

Bullied and Found a Way Forward

When I was 13 I was just like any other teenager working hard hoping to achieve and succeed my goals. It got to like January and this is when the bullying had started. At first I was called names and then actions were also associated with the names. It really hurt my feelings, I felt lonely and isolated and felt that I was worthless and had no meaning to continue living. Everyday at school as me and the bullies were mostly in the same lessons, the bullying had just continued. I didn’t tell any teacher because I didn’t want to get my family involved but I sometimes wish I did. Anyways, when it was June time the bullies were no longer in the same lessons as me, so it had sort of come to an end of having to put up with them everyday and every lesson. Then in July I tried my best to concentrate on my work and all of sudden it felt as if things were actually beginning to change without the help of anybody. I felt that when I was around the bullies I sort of felt scared about what they were going to do but otherwise I started feeling a little better. Then many times in exams my teachers commented I have the accurate knowledge to succeed, this gave me hope to continue living life and to slowly move away from the suicidal thoughts that I was having.
Basically to overcome the bullying I didn’t ask for help, sometimes you just feel you can deal with it on your own better, so I tried it and it sort of helped.
So to overcome bullying first you need to find something, e.g. good grades, as a form of motivation to help you ignore the harmful effects of bullying and to work hard to achieve the grades that you want. Then find friends that understand you better and are worthy of your time. Next add happiness to your life, this can only be done if you get out of the lonely and isolated experiences that you have. So you can go out watch a movie with worthy and honest friends and/or family this way you are going to open up more about things as you’ll end up joining in on conversations. Also, you will have some funny moments in which you’ll feel happy and will feel and think that why should you restrict your happiness just because of what them losers called you or did to you they are lowlifes they are the one that are not worth anything they are only jealous of you of your success of you as a person that’s why they bullied you so you feel bad snout yourself and don’t achieve. They cannot stand your achievement and happiness they want it but can’t get it so they treat you horribly, all you have to do is try your best to focus and do the work no matter because people with knowledge can lead more effectively not people who have to degrade others just to make themselves feel better and on the same level.

Adults Can Bully too

When I was in elementary school, every day we would have to go to either music, art or P.E. My class always dreaded the day we had to go to music. Our music teacher was terrible. She called us dead beats, and she threatened to kick us out of a club, or to get suspended! She always had a complaint, and there was always a kid crying once we left the class. Then finally, in 5th grade, we told our teacher as a class, and our teacher was mad. She called the office to let them know. That night many parent complaints were sent to the school about that teacher. The school almost fired her, but she had to complete that semester because of the show we were doing, but she did stop bullying us.