Real Teens Speak Out

Bully in school

I was mentally bullied in my school. My own friends used to bully me by calling names, pushing me always, blaming me for everything. It is not like I didn’t have power, I was more like they are friends and if I fight them I will feel left out. So I used to hurt myself to get their sympathy but that also never happened. They never considered me as their friend. I was there for them just because they wanted to make fun of me, to blame me and torture me which was fun for them.

how it affected me

it happened to me from 5-13 years old, just a 5 year old who was belittled, ignored, made fun of and felt like she was not worth it. i believe that my brain has been affected by this, i have anxiety about leaving the house because “nobody likes me” “everyone hated me” so i think my mind is thinking why should i show myself in public i should just do a favor to the world and not show myself and not talk, but it’s also because my mind is trying to protect me from getting hurt again. if i don’t talk much, there’s less likely a chance of someone being rude to me or hating on me and if i don’t leave the house there’s no chance of anyone outside judging me. i’m trying to overcome this and i have made progress so far but it’s still quite hard

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.