Real Teens Speak Out

Best Friend to Bully

Ten years of friendship. First five best friends, following five still very close. So what changed? What changed for her to actively make my life a misery? What changed for me to end up here? Feeling alone, isolated, like no one understands. As if I’m a worthless, ugly person who doesn’t deserve anything. Meanwhile, she laughs at my pain, turning others against me. I cry myself to sleep; distraught from the pain she’d caused that day, scared of the pain she’ll cause tomorrow. And I cry, and observe her social media posts of her “amazing friends” or her drinking at parties. So I’m here hurting from her actions and she just carries on without a care, cause I don’t matter to her and she wants to hurt me.

What did I do wrong? Primary school, high school, everything is great. Three month long summer and everything has changed. And all I can think of is our GCSE results, mine were better than hers. But I never told anyone what I got, and she was the one who published them on social media. Yet still, I spend my life wishing I did worse and she did better, cause at least then I might have had the chance of feeling happier. But why should anyone else matter when exams are about doing your personal best, and not about having to do better than your friend. So why do I feel so guilty that I did well, like I don’t deserve my results, like she should have done better?!

It’s just every time I speak, she criticises me. I’m always wrong, even if I’m actually right. And if she knows there’s no way to prove me wrong when I state a simple fact, she ignores me. And then she gets the others to join in too. It’s like I don’t exist, like they wouldn’t realise if I wasn’t there. Sometimes I wonder if I should just disappear, cause none of them would probably care. But it’s just constant, like excluding me from group chats, and making snarky faces at me on the bus, and just making my closest friends go against me, leaving me with no one. And I tried staying away from her, but when we get the same bus to college it’s hard. All I want is for her to leave me alone, and admit what she’s done and say sorry. But that’s never going to happen. I just don’t know what to do anymore.

I tried telling my form tutor but that made everything worse and I nearly lost my other friends who mean so much to me. I could go to my form tutor again, and she’d have the fact she was a bully on her permanent record, but I’m scared that will lose me my friends. And I guess you could say what friends are they if they take her side over yours, but they’re just all scared of her. Maybe I was just never meant to have happiness.

so hard

my life is just hard and especially I don’t have real friends, I don’t sing with bullies but I just pray for them, sometimes I help the bullies but in return they are hurting and intimidating my feelings. I’ve been ruined a few times because of bullies but even though I’m like this and even though I’m not as good as them to hurt, I have talents that I hide but I don’t bring out just like taekwondo and judo. if only I could have a friend too:(

One day while I was at school these two boys started barking at me in the halls, I had some classes with them so they continued to do it to me during class. One of the boys put a chunk of his deodorant in my bag, which was nasty, that kid was soon switched out of my class because the school was informed that that was happening. There was also this other guy in my history class and he has bullied me for almost my whole life. One time he stole my Chromebook so I had to go to my 2nd period with no Chromebook. He later got in trouble because of some other things and was expelled from my school.

How Rude

I don’t usually say this because I usually get called out for this, but here goes nothing
I like to draw cartoons and anime figures, and I am quite fine at it, but there is this other girl who bullies me for the way I draw. She and her shady group of friends make fun of me and draw pictures of me covered in red marks and with X-ed out eyes. This was only the start. Soon the bullying got physical, and they would try to shove me down the toilet, lock me in my locker and punch me a lot. It began to affect my grades, and once one of the girl’s friends cut me, and the teachers didn’t do a thing, well, that was because the girl was rich and could sue the school. But one day the girl’s mom came to school and caught her bullying me. That was the best moment I ever had! She grounded the girl for a LONG time and made her swear that she won’t do it ever again. SO far she hasn’t done anything yet.

Game

they used to bully me for what game level I had. it sucked

Bully for my weight

When I was in 4th grade my school would weigh kids in gym class. At the time I didn’t understand I was fat so when I would step off the scale everyone would laugh and say the ground shook when I’m stepped off. My gym teacher would shame me. I am 215 pounds and only 5’1 I get bullied and have a hard time getting around. People call me names. I’m still in 7th and I’m still getting bullied.

Signed, Tigerstar

I used to get bullied because of my favorite book series, Warriors. Someone found out that I liked this series and started putting scathing notes on my locker always ending with “Signed,Tigerstar” . The person doing this hated the series. It started to happen more, with the person sometimes stealing my books and ripping them up, making meow noises at me, and even stealing my backpack and painting “Tigerstar wuz here”. It got so bad that my family moved.

soccer girls

I was bullied off the soccer team my sophomore year. I think most of the damage done was in my freshman year. I was criticized instead of supported. I was constantly told how bad I was instead of being told how I could get better. I still hear their voices, telling me I shouldn’t play, telling me I was easy to score on. I was excluded from groups games. Nobody wanted me on their team. Their eyes were horrible. I am terrified to play any sport now, because I know I will be judged and compared to others as less than.

Two-Faced Teammates

The coach at my old club called and asked me to go to with one of the teams to a big tournament. They needed someone to play, so she thought of me. I was so grateful for the opportunity to go and play at a higher level than I was used to because all the girls on the team were a year older than me. So, flattered by the amazing opportunity, I decided to fly a thousand miles from home to this tournament to play with girls I barely knew. On the first night we arrived, we had to squeeze all 8 of us into one small hotel room. I was sleeping on the floor, freezing cold. Most of the rest were on one pullout couch bed. I couldn’t sleep because I was so cold, but I was pretending to be asleep hoping I would eventually just go to sleep. Meanwhile, the other girls are talking to each other. They must have thought I was asleep because around 2 in the morning they start talking about me. They start insulting every single thing about me. They spent a long time talking about my body. They mocked everything I had said or done around them. They made clear they hated me. Eventually they started talking about how they wanted to do these awful things to me, starting with throwing sand at me and escalating into graphically describing how they wanted to murder me, all while making fun of my body. It was so awful to hear, and I was trying not to cry. Towards the end they discussed the fact that I was in the same room as them and may have heard, so they all said that if I told the coach they would deny it. I continued to pretend to be asleep because I was terrified. For a couple days, I didn’t say anything about it and pretended everything was normal. I didn’t have any friends who came with and neither of my parents came on this trip either because it was so far away. I didn’t know what to do. Towards the end of the trip, everyone was sitting at the table and Coach said something about how she felt like something was off with our team because we had been playing bad. I decided to speak up and say that heard everything they said that night. However, the girls said that they said some mean stuff but made it seem like it wasn’t bad at all. They lied about what they had said and when I tried to call them out on specific things they denied it. They were never punished and did not face any consequences other than seeing me sob in front of everyone. They half heartedly apologized (they never even used the word sorry.) Later I found out that they made a group chat to continue saying mean things about me. To this day I feel like I didn’t do enough to stand up for myself and that my voice wasn’t heard. I hope that one day they will face consequence for their actions so they learn it’s not okay to do those kinds of things to me or anyone else.

Bullying

I’ve gotten bullied since a long time for I think now 10 or 9 years. I got bullied by a lot of people and still do. In 4th grade I noticed I been getting bullied. I’ve gotten bullied for how I look. There was people at my elementary school who would avoid me or spread rumors. Each year it has been getting worse with the bullying. In 7th grade I’ve gotten bullied by a lot of people I think like 20 or 25 people. It was super bad. People would tell me why do you talk like that or why do you look like that. I’m in high school now and I got bullied by a lot of people in my drama class. My old friend made fun of me and used me. That was some of my story.