Real Teens Speak Out

My Best Friend Did Not Deserve This!

Just Because I’m Smart

Moving

I was born with Cerebral Palsy that only affected the right side of my body. I can walk, talk, run, write and read on my own. I feel like any other almost fourteen year old girl. In my old neighborhood, the kids knew me well, they never judged me.

When I was seven, I moved. They kids called me things like "The Creeper" or even "It". We had a special language class, we learned the native language. The teacher would always fail me because I couldn’t pronounce the words. The kids would mock me for this, saying this like "I don’t speak Chinese, Creeper". When I was in gym, some boys would throw their shoes at my face and claim it was an "accident". Then, a boy pushed me into a small creek after school, which was covered in ice. If my friend wasn’t there, I might have died because back then, I couldn’t swim.

More People Will Get Hurt

I was bullied in Elementary and Middle School. I’m a junior in high school now and while it’s gotten better, it’s still there in one way or another. In middle school, I’d be publicly humiliated-they’d pull my hair or pull down my pants to see my underwear, they’d threaten me and make fun of me when I backed out…they’d shove me against lockers and I was jumped in the hallway in 7th grade. Two girls just kept beating me up and wouldn’t stop-other kids would just stand, watch, and laugh… they’d take my books and throw them in the hall, they would break into my locker and take my things…they even broke into my gym locker and took my clothes.

I was boo-ed at when I won an award and I was pushed down the stairs or in the hall or off the stage.

In high school, it’s more verbal. People say the worst things imaginable. They criticize, they harass, they humiliate you. But whether it’s physical or not, it’s hurtful and wrong. We have to stop this before it gets worse. The people behind us will just continue if we don’t end it NOW. Bullying is serious-we should stand together to stop it or more and more people will get hurt.

Rock on!!!  ~Peace and Love~

W.H.Y.

I have been bullied for a long time. They would make fun of me, take my things, and hurt me. One day a girl came and pushed me down in the bathroom. If i had hit my head any harder, I would have gotten a concusion. After all the bullying to me and my friends, our school started a W.H.Y. program to stop bulling. It stands for We Help You, and ever since we started the program, almost no one has been bullyed. I never told I was being bullyed, but after I did, Im glad I did. What you should do is stand up to them and tell teachers and parents. It helped me, I hope it helps you.

Laura’s Story

I was teased terribly all through school, beginning in third grade. I remember being humiliated in front of my friends. In forth grade, the students began to call me, "robot." Because I have aspergers syndrome(which I did not know about back then), I walk stiffly and I do not move my arms when I walk. This is why the other kids thought I looked like a robot when I walk. One time when I was at my brother’s baseball game, one of the kids said, "look, there’s the robot." He started imitating the way I walk. My mom was with me and saw the whole thing. She pulled the boy aside and told him that it was not nice to call people names and that he should stop.

The worst teasing happened in fifth grade. I remember one cold day after lunch, I was about to go out to recess. I was standing by the door and I saw the kids all gathered there waiting for me and calling out my name. I knew that something awful was about to happen, but I did not know what. I went into the bathroom for a few minutes and thought about what to do. There was a paraprofessional standing right by the door and I thought about telling her that something was going to happen to me, but I was too embarrassed.

I walked out the door. All of the other kids held hands and formed a ring around me and would not let me out. They walked around in a circle and said a lot of hurtful comments, which I do not remember. Then they began kicking me. Somehow I broke loose. Every day at recess, I would try to run away from them so that they would not do this. I would hide on the playground somewhere, but I was never safe. They would always find me. When they did find me they would say mean comments and began kicking me just like they did that first day.

I moved from school to school, trying to avoid being teased, but I was never able to get away from it. By high school, I had no self-esteem left at all. I would walk through the halls with my head down, afraid to look at anyone or talk to anyone. I remember these two boys in high school who would prey on this. They would come up behind me and scream in my ear. I would get scared and drop all of my books, spill my lunch, or whatever and the other kids would laugh.

School was miserable for me. I think something dramatic needs to be done to prevent bullying. I feel very strongly about this. The sad thing is, these kids probably do not even realize what an impact their comments and actions had on me. They do not realize what they did to me. I also think that teachers need to incorporate more about bullying into their daily curriculum. They need to educate the students on how to treat each other.

Confusion

When I was in 5th grade, one of my best friends started talking to this other girl. One day, 2 days after she had told me I was her best friend, she told me that she hated me and didn’t want to be my friend. She had done something similar to me in 4th grade, too. A week after she told me that, she said she wanted to be my friend again.

Hurt

Hurt people . . . hurt people.

Bullying Is…

Bullying means to me hurting someone or making fun of someone and making them cry. Bullying makes me feel sad because they hurt my friends or someone else. People should try to ignore them but bullies make them cry sometimes. I don’t know if bullies realize how they make people feel. If they did, maybe they would stop bullying people.

Bullying Feels…

It feels like you have no friends and you have no self confidence.