"I Choose" Anti-Bullying Campaign

It might of been a short time, but a painful time. My story is about ganging up on others.  The whole class has always hated me, since I was the goodie-two-shoe that got everyone in trouble. I couldn’t help it. When my friends and I were about to split in half, we were fighting every [...]

I am a normal everyday 12 year old and I go to a public middle school. I’m a straight A’s honors student and I stay out of drama most  of the time. Well, like most people I have some friends and some best friends. Well, some of those friends are boys. It was the 2nd [...]

I choose. I choose to be respected. I choose to have real friendships. I choose to be treated with kindness, and compassion. I choose to be loved. These are all great desires, but, honestly there’s something better. What about giving respect? What about being a friend? Or treating people with compassion and kindness. Loving people [...]

I feel like in order to have pure, true love, there are many aspects that must be included. When in love with anyone there is a great deal of respect that has to be working both ways. Friendship is the most basic form of love, and all forms of love have some kind of basic [...]

My name is Lexi, and I’ve experienced much bullying. It all started in elementary school. My “friends” would spread rumors, and we would fight loads. That enabled me to trust people I thought were trustworthy. Now in middle school, I’ve realized the harsh truth of what bullying can have on a child. I’ve seen it [...]

My name is Allyson Pereira and I am 22 years old from Northern NJ. I am a public speaker on anti bullying and sexting awareness. When I was a sophomore in high school, I was a straight A, fully involved, popular, church-going girl. I had strict parents and wasn’t allowed to date until high school. I started dating a [...]

I’m 14 and I’m an 8th grader and this is my bullying story. I started getting bullied before I was in middle school. It started in 5th grade, my friends would tease me and I was hated in elementary school. But I didn’t think it was that bad or if it would get worse. Until middle school, [...]

When I was in public school, I got bullied from Kindergarten until 4th grade. My main bully was a boy named Michael. He bullied me from Kindergarten to third grade, which was when my family moved. We had problems constantly. I remember taunting him sometimes, but I only did that when I knew he couldn’t [...]

Beyond the cliché ‘kill them with kindness’, fighting anger and resentment with passive silence, calm attention, or even a quiet word of kindness has the amazing effect of completely throwing the bully – whomever it may be – off of their guard. Of course, I understand that this doesn’t work in every situation, all the [...]

These days many kids have been getting bullied. I see it happen every day at school. Sometimes I just watch, other times I help. But I can’t help but think of why they’re bullied. People say they’re “dumb” or “stupid” and many other names. I’ve been bullied before. NO ONE helped me at all. But [...]

Hello viewers. My name is Maddie. I’m 15 years old and I’m from boring ole Missouri. Basically I’m here to tell you guys my story of when I was and still am being bullied. When people started picking on me, it was about the end of my seventh grade year. I thought that what they [...]

At lunch today, I sat by a kid who wasn’t very well liked by some people. Everything was going fine, no one did anything to upset anyone, yet a very mean girl named Sarah said, “Hey David, why are you sitting here? No one likes you.” (By the way, this isn’t me.) So David ignored [...]

My name is Sam, I live in Greenfield, Indiana. I’ve been bullied since fourth grade. When I was in third grade I moved from one school to another. I was really sad about that because I was leaving my three best friends I had since kindergarten. My mom ended up pregnant when we moved. After [...]

I have been bullied for as long as I remember, and for as long as I can remember it didn’t feel good. I was bullied for every reason possible. I was bullied about my glasses, my hair, basically everything. I was mostly bullied about my appearance, and because my parents smoked I went to school smelling [...]

I choose compassion because it is so hard to do that. At school everyone made fun of this kid because he never talked to anyone. Then one day I decided to talk to him. He told me his life story and it turned out that his father left his mother and him when he was [...]

“Thanks,” my little sister would say and kiss me on the cheek as she skipped away with the lunch money she needed that day. “Dyke,” I would hear behind me and by now I didn’t even bother with it anymore. This wasn’t even one of the worst things I’d been called in 3 years. 3 [...]

from K-6 grade, i had a teachers aide bully she would sit tight to my desk and erase my answers many times until the teacher would ask why I erased so much when i was right all along and the teachers aide said to me after the teacher left well I can’t help it if [...]

When I was younger I used to be friends with this girl who was my next-door neighbor. Sometimes we would have a great time, and other times, she used to tell me she wouldn’t be my friend if I didn’t play this with her. She used to push me around, and threaten me all the [...]

From the time I was 6 I was bullied by family and friends. Nobody can give a secure reason as to why. I just was an easy target. I have grown up with a cousin who was small for her age and very skinny and had tons of friends. Me? I was the right size [...]

People started bullying me since I was in the first grade now I’m going to seventh grade and sixth grade I had a horrible year I got threated, this girl texted me saying you better watch your back tommorow at school cause I’m going to punch you in the face! So I got really scared [...]

Hi, my story is probably different from others you receive in that I was the bully. Been coming online since my sister got a computer in her room in 2002. Over the years I made a lot of friends on the official fan forum of a pop band, which shall remain nameless for reasons that [...]

I’m a Christian; with a bad connotation to go with it. But, love is what’s going to prove to the nation and the world that we are human, and are no better than any other group of people. I love everybody, no matter, what race, gender, sexuality. And, I strive to be like Christ daily, [...]

Well my bullying started when i was very young i lived in mexico and i remembered there where 3 brothers that always used to pick on me , one day when i was walking home from my grandma house they sorounded me and statred saying bad things to me and than they started throwing rocks [...]

I wrote this letter to Angel Bradley Martinez, the mother of Devin James Scott. He was bullied… to death. August 7, 2012, Devin took his life. I write this letter with sadness in my heart and tears in my eyes. I have no words to make your pain go away. But I can share my [...]

Hello my name is Shannon, I live in Northern Ireland. My story is about how I helped someone through bullying I am writing this because I want bullying to stop and I want the kids to see bullying happening to make a stand like I did! My mother was in a taxi, and the taxi [...]

It started today on 12 September 2012 in class when the teacher wasn’t around. My friend (Now an ex-friend) passed me a 5 paged letter. The handwriting already told me it was the girl, A (Not revealing name) who sent this. I opened it up and found billions of words, mean and foul words. It [...]

Girls can be incredibly cruel, especially around the age of middle and high school. I’ve dealt with my share of bullies, as everyone does at some point in their life. It used to really get to me. I used to listen to all the things they said, and no matter how hard I tried to [...]

Eric was my best friend. We were never apart. When we got into middle school Eric was being made fun of because of the way he talked because he could not pronounce some words right. It started to go past that about how he looked and what he did. It got so bad that it [...]

It started last year in 2011. I was talking with my friend molly, until the bell rang. we sat next to each other in science. everything was fine until the next bell for S&E went. I wasn’t in her class for this subject but K (not going to mention her name) was unfortunately. when it [...]

I seem happy. I seem strong, like I have so many close friends, like I’m successful, confident, loved. I seem like I come from a privileged family with no problems. But it’s not like that on the outside. Around third grade I met my two best friends, William and Allie, they were both different and [...]

Hi, my name is Cynthia! im from England and im 15 years old and this is my tragic tale. It all started when i was 12 years old, the start of high school (year 7). Iv always felt like the odd one out in my school because i was the only black girl in my [...]

September 18, 2012: Joshuah Delos Santos, 13, Death by Suicide We have failed yet another one. On Tuesday, September 18th, 13-year-old Joshuah Delos Santos took his own life. Martha Angelica Gonzales wrote this about her cousin, Joshuah: Imagine being 13 and thinking about ending your life because you are being bullied… No one to turn [...]

In elementary school, I was bullied by the older kids. I don’t remember all of it but I do remember being called ‘bitch’ and walking home one day and these boys picking on me and ended up shoving me into the road. I was bleeding and crying as I walked the rest of the way [...]

I had completely forgotten all about it until I happened upon the Bully special last night, 10/9/12. When I was 7 my friend David and I used to pick on another kid in our neighborhood. We would taunt him, call him names and many times physically beat him up. I remember at least one time I gave [...]

I choose to be an up stander because I have seen too much violence. Mean people are cowards and the ones who have been bullied but keep going on are the real courageous hero’s. Anyone can be a bully. It takes real compassion and courage to be an up stander. It takes even more courage to [...]

I have been bullied for nine years now. I’m 13 years old. I’ve seen bullying taken to the extreme and it breaks my heart. I hate to hear that a beautiful person took their life due to bullying. I’ve thought about it. I’ve also Self Mutilated for 2 years now. I’ve done things and said [...]

I’m seventeen years old. I’m overweight, but I have a pretty face. I’m not athletic, but I’m extremely intelligent. I’m shy, but I’ll be nice to anyone. I’m a senior in high school. I should be out at the Friday-night football games with all my peers. I should be excited for homecoming, prom, and going [...]

It only takes one act of kindness to change the direction a young life is moving in. Bullied all throughout my days in public and charter schooling, I was always the sore thumb, singled out by teachers, students, neighborhood children, even other adults. It’s not a cry of being a victim, it’s just the hand [...]

ill keep this short and to the point. ever since i can remember ive been picked on and called names, ive been laughed at for being different, for being gay, ive been made fun of for having a mother who is disabled. People have told me i will never amount to anything that i am [...]

I have always struggled with my weight. I was never a popular girl. I never had a lot of friends. I started getting bullied in the 6th grade by people who I thought were my friends. They would tell me all the time how fat I was and how worthless I was. In the 6th [...]

My name is Autumn Thomas and this is my story on how I was bullied. I was in 2nd grade and i was ten pounds under weight. Everybody knew my weight issues but they still teased me about it. I was on my way to lunch when i heard someone say ” why is she [...]

Ever since I was born, all I can remember is chaos. My mom and my dad married because my mom got pregnant with me. My dad never took care of me, cheated on my mom, etc. They argued all the time, and I remember screaming, crying, begging for them to stop. They split when I [...]

My story takes place 18 years ago, on my first day at Preschool. I had not grown up knowing any of the other kids, I was an outcast that first day. Play time was always spent on my own… and that’s how it remained up until I entered middle school. My short stature, somewhat awkward [...]

I have never personally been bullied, but I have heard many, many horror stories from people who have. It drove me crazy, the helpless feeling that I experienced when I couldn’t stop bullies from torturing my friends. Since I couldn’t stop the bully, I decided that I would help my friends feel better in anyway [...]

When I was little, I used to always think everyone was my friend, I never worried about bullying or anything like that. I just figured it was all just happy faces, rainbows, and unicorns. Then I entered sixth grade. I didn’t understand it when I was in grade school, but then I did, it didn’t [...]

In grade school I was always a victim of bullying for one reason or another. At first I was way too skinny. Then my hair was too short and then came the acne. I was teased nearly every day. I started to gain interest because I was from out of state and knew better cheers [...]

Hi I know I have a big head I don’t like when people tease me about it they call me mega mind and they dont truly know the type of effect it has on me when they call me that i laugh it off like its not that serious but deep inside it really hurts. [...]

It went from doing a good deed to protect my best friend, to having someone I barely knew, touch me inappropriately, to attempting to protect her with all that I had, to having the whole situation, make me regret my existence. A true story, believed by everyone to be a lie, put me in a [...]

I was bullied by the kids in my neighborhood for a long time. That was when I was thirteen, and now I am seventeen. During that time, I felt the usual: alone, worthless, like there was something wrong with me. I retreated into a world of writing. I wrote an entire novel. In the end, [...]

When I was going to school in the 60′s there was no anti-bullying campaigns. I was bullied; verbally harassed, because of my weight. Laughed at. It had gotten to the point I refused to go to school; thereby a tuorant officer actually had gotten involved in the matter. He was strict and mean, poked me and I received [...]

The first time I was bullied, I was in second grade, maybe 7 or 8 years old. In that moment, I didn’t even know I was being  bullied. Kids on the bus – behind me, in front of me, to the side of me, started heckling me. “Hey, look at that ching chong, sitting by [...]

My story. I think it’s time I wrote all of it down. It’ time to let the pain go. After all the stories of those who only found darkness and had no light to guide them through it all. I do not doubt that the scars within me are never going to ever fade completely [...]

I just wanted to post this, because I never saw it on the what do you choose page. It read: “I chose kindness because there are some many people who underestimate the power of one small act of it. They don’t see how a smile, a compliment, or even a thumbs up can turn someone’s [...]

My name is Jay and I live in New York. For me bullying started at a young age. It all started in elementary school at age 11. I have had a weight issue my whole life but, I didn’t think I was any different from anyone else. I thought I was just bigger than the [...]

I was always a shy kid, like to the point where I could barely talk to anyone but a handful of family members. I knew for a while that I was a misfit, that I was too different for everyone else’s liking. But the bullying didn’t start until I was in the 6th grade. I loved [...]

Name: Sarah Age:14(almost 15) Victim of verbal bullying. Fat. Ugly. Useless. Nobody. Worthless. Names that have been haunting my life for the past year and a half. “You will always be alone.” “Nobody will ever want you.” Things ive heard for the past year and a half. What people don’t know, is that everytime they said [...]

For the 14 years of my life everyone has told me to be myself. At a young Age this worked. No one judged you. Everyone was the same. Just wanting to have fun and play tag. As you get older it changes. Everyone is figuring out who they are. Those kids who are good looking, [...]

Well I’m in high school right now but I have been bullied all my life. Things like name calling, being left out, rumors, fake friends, sometimes even death threats. My mom, my brother and grandparents are all I have to stand up for me. My mom has been the one to help me though all [...]

I remember the first time i met her. Ill not name her but she was, in my words, the devil. I remember being too scared to walk to my next lesson at school because i always felt her presence around me. Even when she wasnt there. Her face taunted me every day when i got [...]

I am a 13 year old girl who lives in Michigan… I have been bullied for my weight for almost my whole school life. It got to the point where I would not eat, I became anorexic. I would get home from school and lock my self in my room and I would not talk [...]

I grew up in the 1970′s and the 1980s, and I have been bullied in school up until college. I felt stressed and hurt. As a child, I also took my frustrations out on other people and animals, because I was abused at home myself. I advise kids that if you are being bullied or abused at home, [...]

I grew up in a loving, giving family. Surrounded by loving parents and a set of grandparents. I was a bigger kid growing up and always knew I didn’t fit into the clothes I wanted too. Back in elementary school all the kids used to poke my fat rolls with rulers and call me fat-so [...]

being a girl and being over weight is hard, very hard, i always looked down on my self for the way i looked , for not looking like the other girls. so when i finally had enough of other people causing me pain i inflicted it on my self , but cutting my wrists and [...]

This story is about my son. I always told him to be his own person, don’t be a follower, be yourself and if friends don’t like it, they are truly not your friends in the first place..He was bullied in middle school. I addressed it with the powers that be and thought that was the [...]

The reason I picked respect has many different meanings. I was bullied throughout secondary school or high school in the States. The first time it happened I didn’t no what to do, I became depressed. What hurt me most at the time was the fact that it was people I used to be friends with [...]

As an avid member of pageants, I work with many wonderful girls who support a multitude of worthwhile causes. I chose Anti-Bullying as my own personal platform because it hits close to home, and I honestly believe everyone goes through some form of this throughout their lives. Growing up with the pressure of social media, [...]

When I started 6th grade, I was this cool, popular girl. New at the school though, I was easily accepted along the boys. This girl thought that even though her chest was bigger than, waist like 13 times smaller, thought she was the queen of the world. She called my fat, and said I stuffed. [...]

It all started the day I was born. No one can remember the day they were born, because they are only one second old, then two, then three and so on. Being born into a family with an older brother and two loving parents seems good. But what I didn’t mention was that, that brother [...]

I walked into the doors of my highschool one morning, and i noticed everyone wispering, staring and laughing. All at me. Well I have no idea why everyone was being bitchy to me, until my school “most popular girl” also known as the school bully, came up to me and said good one. I was [...]

Ever since I was in elementary school I felt like an outcast. I did not have many friends. I always seemed to keep to myself, which made me an easy target to my classmates. I was constantly teased on a daily basis. Every day I would come home and lock myself up in my room [...]

At the age of 3, I was diagnosed with with a language disorder. When I was just learning to talk, my parents noticed there was a huge problem. They could not understand me and when spoken to I would answer them back with something completely off the wall and make up my own words. They [...]

Hey everyone! I would like to share my story. If you were to meet me today you would probably happy-go-lucky. I haven’t always been like this. I was bullied my entire school life, it pretty much stopped now that I’m in college, but sometimes its still prevelent. At school and at home I was endlessly [...]

Hello everyone – I have been bullied all of my life mostly when I was little but it still finds its way to me today.When I was first born and throughout my life untill ten I went to this church and there was this girl that every time I went there she was an absolute [...]

So far I had been pretty popular until one day., here’s how it happened… It was a quiet day in class I had got on with everyone I was such a happy person when I had an argument with a girl called Olivia… We were arguing that day and then another girl called Brooklyn Stepped [...]

My name is Amy and I’m almost 14. When I was younger I was always the quiet, innocent type, I didn’t socialize much and I was shy. That all changed as I got older, when I was 10 my mum passed away and I moved 20 miles away from my hometown to live with my [...]

Hey guys! I’m Jessica! I’ve always been a small city girl, I grew up in Brantford, ON. Since I was little I always got made fun of. I was called beaver, loser, not good enough. I was young, had a lot of “friends”… they were all fake. Grade six came along. I was bullied so [...]

Im 14 year old female living in Australia, I was bullied for around 7 years and no one knows. I was told I was ugly, fat, tub of lard, King Kong, Fail Whale. It got to the point where I was thinking of committing suicide. I still am on some days. It has affected me [...]

I started to get bullied in 3rd grade. I’m always the “new girl” in schools. Well I get into fights because people pick on me. In 7th grade I began to cut myself and started to get in a lot of trouble. When people found out I cut myself they began to call me Emo, [...]

My story is..it started in 3rd grade i started to get picked on i didn’t relize i was getting bullied. Untill i told my mom about it she told me that i was getting bullied. This girl started to spread rumors all around school it was horriable. Fourth and fifth grade was the same with [...]

I have a story like everyone else. I have a story that may inspire. I have a story that may offend others. I have a story and it’s mine. I’ve never been really the “cool” girl or ever even popular. I never really knew who I was. I had a somewhat miserable time at home. [...]

My story probably isn’t as bad as others, but a bully is a bully and she needs to be stopped. In our school the first nine weeks of it is called the “first quarter” and there was a girl who I wasn’t really friends with and she was being really nice to me. So I [...]

The bully which I would like to feature is called Thomas Abraham , a Indonesian student in my school. His Chinese name is 张卫能, for your knowledge. 1. Little things I knew about about my first encouter with him, but I had sure that in that encounter, he knew that I am feared of brooms. [...]

I am 52 years old. I was raised in a small town up north where they did not understand mental illness. Only later in life was I diagnosed with personality disorder and bipolar and because of it I never got the right help or meds I needed. I was picked on and beaten up mercilessly [...]

This story isn’t about me but a friend of mine. He was being bullied and recently attempted suicide. He is alive. But barely. He attempted to hang himself. He is currently in critical condition and may not make it. He was being bullied because he is openly gay. Why do people do this? They aren’t [...]

My name is Holly, my story doesn’t involve anyone killing themselves or cutting myself I found better ways of dealing with my problem than that. I don’t remember when it started exactly, but I know I was too young to know what they were doing and why (to be honest i still don’t know why). [...]

Is your joke still funny When im drowning in my tears? Do you feel better now When i wish i wasnt here? Does it make you smile When i bleed alone at night? Is your joke still funny When im turning out the lights? Is your joke still funny When i hide from everyone? Do [...]

I stand here, thinking about my life. Nobody to love. Nobody to care for. I hold this knife, over my heart, ready to finish it. I will carve the part of me that nobody has ever known; the incomplete half-heart of my soul. Without love, there is no reason for me to fight the pain. [...]

I was bullied a lot in school. Perhaps not as bad as some, but it was definitely worse than schoolyard teasing. I count myself lucky that the internet wasn’t as prevalent in the 90′s as it is in the 2000′s and beyond. Myspace and Facebook didn’t exist yet. The insults, torment and hate I dealt [...]

I’m Rayna. I’ve always been one of the different girls. People have always judged me and made me feel unimportant. Here’s my story. At school, I dont talk to people. I stay away from everyone and try to avoid associating with anyone. People come up to me and tell me how worthless I am. There’s [...]

Well, I guess I’ll share my story.. I’m Allie Hoebeke, just a girl trying to live my life.. Well everything was fine till middle school.. In 6th grade people started calling me a bird because my nose.. It hurt me so bad. I would cry all the time because I just didn’t know how else [...]

Hi, I was bullied from childhood up until my adulthood. What I did in my situation was that I remained my individual natural self, regardless of what people thought of me. I think the solution to bullying is to encourage adults and children that it is okay to be themselves and to find themselves. In [...]

I was bullied several times. It all started in Elementary School. I would come home crying every night because I was being bullied. I would get called “four eyes”, “fat”.”ugly”, you name it. I was called a lot of names. I really don’t know why I was hated so much. I guess where I live [...]

Hi everybody I am going to share my story with you. So, it all started in Kindergarten. I was always the one being left out, the one with geeky glasses. I was always called “short stuff” and one day when i couldn’t get to the bathroom quick enough I “went” on myself and everybody laughed [...]

When I was little, in my heart, I always interpreted the world to be a beautiful, loving and innocent place. Throughout my youth, I tried my best to put my kindness towards my peers through sharing, compassion and friendship. Though I have been always been known as the unique and different child, I never gave [...]

I have always been and outgoing, loud, crazy person. Last year in 6 th grade, all the boys would pick on me as I was the shortest girl. They would trip me over and call me names. I eventually got sick of it and decided to fight back. I would push them and make men [...]

Hi My name is Hannah and I’m 18 years old and I have been bullied since prep to year 12. I have been told to go die in a hole, been called fat, ugly, annoying, stupid, dumb, I will get no where in life and called a mistake. Since I have been going through this [...]

In our day and age, bullying has become somewhat of a ‘joke’ to many people. And up until this moment, I never really felt what bullying meant. Today, I felt like my heart was being scarred with sharp knives. Called names, underestimated, physically hit, and emotionally handled. This story is different. I am not afraid [...]

My childhood was hard, it was an everyday thing of going to school and thinking to myself “Here we go again”. I was bullied in elementary and junior high school. I’m 26 now, but I feel if I tell this story that it will help others who are being bullied. Here it goes…. In elementary [...]

I have always craved a perfect high school experience with cliques, boys, and crazy weekends. From the outside it seemed the only thing I wanted to be happy. I wanted to be known and strong and loved by everyone. I had to change who I was almost every 5 minutes to please every person I [...]

Forgive, forget, and let go the most common phrase everyone told me…but no one ever heard me sob into my pillow late at night. It finally hit my family that I was truly hurting when my dad found the knife next to my bed. I had been hiding it trying to find the right time [...]

I died in the sixth grade. Perhaps not death in its purest form; a stopped-heart, doctor-call-it, ER kind of death, but it was a very distinct death, nonetheless. I vaguely remember the person I was before it happened. Out-going, compassionate, smart, and sometimes overbearing. Positive that the sun rose and set with the knowledge of [...]

My son (13) is bullied daily. The worst part is it happens DURING CLASS! He has been picked up and punched. Terrorized with name calling and the threat of being beaten up. Yesterday a student held him down during class and sprayed hand sanitizer on the crotch of his jeans. Guess what was done? NOTHING!!!!! [...]

I have been severely bullied for years. Ever since I got to my new school, it was non stop tormenting. From gossiping to cyberbullying, my school experience was a non stop cycle of getting hurt. The big breaking point was a couple of weeks ago. I was offered a seat to sit in at lunch [...]

You know,I really hate the saying “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” Because it was bullshit. it started in 5th grade.I was only 10 years old. I was always the goofy,happy kid who always wanted friends.I still remember it.I was making me a pi a picture for my [...]

I was bullied in 6th grade to the point where i wanted to change schools. i was one on the lucky ones who fought back. I was lucky enough to have older brothers and hit a growth spurt that year, so my bully got some well deserved justice and i did not get bullied again. [...]

Ever since I was younger…People would also Call me names and pick on me all the normal stuff every kid has to go through. But when I got into the 8th grade. Things became physical. Everyday I was shoved into lockers, head dunked in toilets, coming home with bloodied noses and broken bones…all because they [...]

I was bullied for about 8 or 9 years when I was in school. Primary school was bad, but Secondary School was a lot worse. I suffered through severe bullying in my first school,so I moved to another school, where I also got bullied. There was just no escaping it. Social Networking Sites were a [...]

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been called, “weird”, “strange” or “freak” by anyone and everyone, including my family. I can say there is a indecisiveness with me and I am also impulsive. I would get it at school almost everyday and I would just kind of brush it off. But then I [...]

“I’m not the only kid who grew up this way, surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme about sticks and stones as if broken bones hurt more than the names we got called and I got called them all . I grew up believing I could never be loved. So broken heart strings [...]

My brother is the victim for 2 years the same group of boys ,verbally abuse and now having a gun out to victimize him for money and that they would kill him if he does not hand over money! He is 16 years old,currently attending grade 9 sa Pretoria in eersterust secondary school,where these boys [...]

i have been bullied all my life. i was called names, pushed, spat on, excluded and just generally hated. at the end of primary school i was excited for high school, a fresh start. i thought it would get better and it didn’t… it got worse i sat by myself in the corner at lunch [...]

Last year, a 13 years old boy who lived in Otsu city threw himself from the building where he and his family lived. Later, the boy’s father heard that his son was “bullied” in school. So the boy’s father requested investigation three times but all three requests was turned down. And even there was witnesses [...]

It’s not easy getting out of the ‘victim-zone’. It’s not even close to easy… to be honest; it could very well be the hardest thing that you would ever attempt to overcome. I say ‘attempt’ because I know that whenever a rough patch comes up (and in one of these endeavors, there are many rough [...]

I was bullied pretty much from my preschool until the end of my 7th grade year. In preschool, I was probably more teased than anything else, but as the years progressed and we became older; the bullying became worse. The threats, worse. By 5th grade I was getting bullied on almost a daily basis.just because [...]

I don’t remember doing anything wrong. sure i was a bit different to other people in my class but does that give them the right to treat me the way they did? It all started on the first day of my second year in high school. i was fairly average in the class. not the [...]

I don’t get it. Why don’t people like me? I try so hard to fit in, not get in trouble, make new friends. But it seems the harder I try, the more people hate me. I haven’t done anything, anything at all! I have about 5 friends, I’m in middle school, which is rough. Yes, [...]

hi, im Siana, im 12, and im in 6th grade .3 boys are very mean to me.one of them calls me names, and the other 2 make fun of me in my face. the first one , is named chris and he is a short white blond boy, he always calls me names, and i [...]

Why be nice to the new kid?. When she gets to sit in the back of the classroom and draw with markers and crayons and play with colors, while everyone else had to do math and reading. Of course the kids would be jealous! She looked different, dressed different and talked different. She ate lunch [...]

Hi everyone I’m Jasmine. I am fifteen years old. I am a victim of bullying. When I’m in school i am pick on by most everyone in my school I am called ugly,fat, chief keef. And the names got so out of hand i had to drop out of my school and transfer to another [...]

I was bullied by the same girl for over 7 years of my life. I thought it was normal for the first part, but then it really started to affect me. I lost all my patience with people and got mad really easily. In 9th grade, we had EVERY class together…just my luck. For the [...]

Hi my name is Lucy and im 15 years old. The bullying started when i came into my second year at high school. Girls used to laugh at me because of nose. It’s not as big as they say but i used to get called ‘jew’ ‘beaky’ and people used to shout ‘HITLERS COMING’. This [...]

When I was in kindergarten, i loved school. My teacher was amazing and accepted me as who i am. but in first grade, my teacher hated that i was different. she didnt like that i sang to myself or that i was overly friendly. she called me a liar when i was picked on, a [...]

In year 7 I was so happy I had heaps of friends and was soooooo popular. Then all of a sudden they left to go to a different high school. I went to a college, i was the new kid. Everyone thought oh yeah i’ll just reject the new girl and bully her and trash [...]

I was lost as it started at ten, the insults, the remarks, and the chasing on the playground. It became a favorite game of who could grab me first and pull my hair. I remember a hard brick wall in elementary school, leaning against it, and trying to avoid eye contact. during recess. I remember [...]

Once upon a time, i was happy. I was ready to take on the world but that all changed when bullies came into the picture and who i really was was replaced with nothing but a hollow shell. It started when i was about 7 or 8, kids would call me names like freak and [...]

Until I was 12 I had spent my whole life in a small town in Washington state. The kids that I went to preschool with were my classmates until 6th grade. I had a great life, a best friend since 1st grade and a loving family. I world fell apart when my mom told me [...]

Hi, I’ve been bullied since I was in 3rd or 4th grade. I hung around a lot of people that were older than me, and I thought that they would stand up for me while I was getting bullied. Turns out that one of the older girls that I hung around turned her back on [...]

I was a happy child, not afraid to be myself. When i went to school I didn’t really get friends, only this one girl who was also shy. I had a best friend too, a year younger than me, but she would mostly use me to make sure she had someone to be with. The [...]

If you are reading this then you might want to have a box of tissues next to you. My story starts in the 6th grade ,since when does it not start in middle school?, when I first started middle school I was excited and I couldn’t wait, but then the popular girl started making fun [...]

It all began when I was a little girl around the age of 5, people tormented me, called me names, laughed at me, pulled at my clothes. Back then I was stronger, now in eight grade, it STILL continues. Younger kids on the bus are saying stuff about my hair, that I like somebody younger [...]

Hey guys, My name is Nicole I am 13 yrs old. You know alot people have been bullied right? Well.. I been bullied alot every year, even start when i was 8 yrs old, to now. People always bully me everyday. I was really hurt.. Even I don’t know what to do?.. so since when [...]

Well, unlike some of other stories that are on this website, my story isn’t quite finished. What’s happening to me is happening right now, and honestly it hurts like heck. You see it all started back in August. I had just moved to a new school, from my old school that I had been at [...]

In seventh grade, my “friend” was only my “friend” when we were at my house or his. At school, on the bus and the classes we shared together, he tried to control my every move. He called me names like fag and pussy. He would hit me. He threw a dictionary at the back of [...]

I was bullied for years as a child because of my weight and I was left with terrible self-esteem because of it for most of my adult years. I joined the military and later got my degrees in psychology and counseling and became a licensed psychotherapist. Through the years, I’ve worked with people with disabilities, [...]

Once i hit middle school i was rejected in pretty much every “clique” there was. I did not fit in for some reason. All my friends were in some kind of group, but not me. i didn’t wear designer clothes or do sports, which was ‘the thing’. i got picked on for having bad glasses that made [...]

Really, where does it stop……. Bullying, I was one of many Rio Hondo parents sitting on the football bleachers enjoying the football games this past junior high season and the coaches allowed the kids from the famous “A” team that also happens to be pre-selected from Day One of Practice to come and help out [...]

I agree and I had my child bullied by other football players on the privileged “A” team. I also don’t agree with how these coaches permitted it, I am a parent and educator at Rio Hondo and I know my son was very uncomfortable with the BULLYING he experienced; however, being a small town, its hard to trust and [...]

Haii guys , I may look like a happy , life loving girl . If you think that , your dead wrong . I’ve been bullied , ever since I started school in Kinder garden . So buckle up , and get ready for my never ending bullied life . I was bullied all of [...]

I am not a bully nor a victim i am just a senior in high school who one day went into English class thinking i was going to watch just a regular boring old video. I was completely wrong, the video our class was shown was a bullying documentary about young kids who were bullied at school. Some of [...]

I was bullied from 2nd grade all the way until the end of my 11th grade. I was always made fun of because I was over weight. People told me to go eat more fatty foods and the boys would call me a mouse because I had big ears. They would crumble paper and throw [...]

I was bullied from 3rd grade and am still bullied today. A girl always told me I was fat (when I was the average weight), ugly, not worth the live I was given and almost homeless. (which was ironic because she lives in my neighborhood) I cried every night. I still do sometimes. Finally, I [...]

I was bullied ever since I was a little girl. My dad is Mexican and Lebanese, and my mother is Italian  What does that leave me with? Yup, you guessed it: a big nose. I was tormented for it ever since I was little. People used to call me ugly all the time, even close family friends comment [...]

I was born in a New York amish, military town. I moved around then to Utah when I was three. I attended a privet pre-school then went to elementry. By the end of pre-K my dad had left for Iraq. I started going down hill from there. I was 7 and very mature. other than [...]

Well I have always been bullied. It started in middle school when I started playing sports because I love to play them. I had to wear shorts well for most people that isn’t a problem but for me it was. See I have red hair and blue eyes which means I have very white skin [...]

Hi, My name is Megan. I was bullied for years. I was called “fat ass”, “thunder thighs”, “flappy arms”. I felt fat when I was in elementary school. I was told I talked too much, and then I was told I was too shy. I was told I didn’t wear enough make-up, then I was [...]

Sweet Ambrosia Bakeshoppe is a family owned, small local business. Ashlee and I began Kim and Ashlee’s Cakes & Cookies as a hobby in 2003. We loved any and everything cake and cookies. We talked, breathed, and dreamt cake. In 2009, we were finally able to turn our dream into a reality. Never having any [...]

Discomfort and agony, She walks the corridors, Wondering what new things she’ll learn about herself today, She’s hurting so why does it have to be this way? Will she go home sobbing just as the day before? It’s not much longer she can endure this, That’s for sure. She sits in the bathroom stall, Gawking [...]

In middle school groups of 15-20 people would crowd around me in the gym after lunch and threaten to beat me up. After a couple of months of this I didn’t want to go to lunch because I was afraid of what might happen afterwards. They would call me names too. When I was working [...]

Before you read this I want you to know that this story is real. I do not do not approve of violence with the exception that it is only used as a means of self-defence and as a last resort. With this in mind, my story begins like this. I was bullied for 12 years; [...]

Hello! My name is Jamison! Well, my story begins back in 4th grade. Up till then I was never bullied. I needed braces, cause I had crooked teeth. So people in my class started calling me “Crooked teeth”. It was about 3 people doing it. But I just ignored them. Soon this guy, I won’t [...]

We smiled. We were becoming big kids now. We played around and tease each other. Nothing bothered us. We were young, playful, and ignorant. Full of happiness an excitement. We drank up those feelings. Now we know we’re the cool kids. Some of us still hang out together. I still get teased. I was content. I [...]

Hi my name is Helen Mary Bradley I am 19 years of age from Dromina, Co. Cork and I attend at Training course I would like to share my story to you and im hoping the bullies will read it too. When I was young I attended a National School in my local area and [...]

When I was in primary school, I was bullied. I had my best friend turn on me and the day she did, the girls in my class called me names. That night I went home crying. When I reached high school, the bullying wasn’t so bad but I did have a couple of rumors spread about me. [...]

When I was 11 years old and in the fifth grade, I just didn’t fit it. I was the tallest in my class, had curly hair and worst of all, I had repeated second grade that made me one of the oldest kids in my class. The other kids knew I had repeated a year, [...]

This is my story. About 4 years ago, I was a honest, funny, good-hearted guy, had great friends, and girls liked me too. Then, one day at school this guy came, and started tormenting me calling me names, I was not the type of kid that would be afraid of bullies, but things got even [...]

I remember in the 2nd grade, the other boys used to call me ugly and give me animal names. I remember in 3rd grade I’d sit by the monkey bars, cover my head with my hoodie and cry until recess was over because other would laugh at how my mother had done my hair, and, [...]

Although hate is bad sometimes the hate can mean you get more love. When someone posted something hateful on my tumblr. anonymously I was overthrown with amazing messages and stories telling me to be strong. Not that I was that fussed over the hate message. Having people, friends and family telling me to believe in [...]

I was friends with this girl… i wont put her name but lets call her Jane. Jane and I were best friends, until one day she turned on me. I was scared to talk to my mom about my self-injury problems, so i went to Jane for help. She laughed at me and called me [...]

I always thought that bullying happened when little and on the playground. Though this holds true it happened to me but in a professional college. There were two girls one was the age of 27 and the other the age of 43. I caused no harm to these women but continued to be verbally battered. [...]

This is my story but it could be yours too… it started when i was 5 years old, I always remember. I loved to learn, I was nice and quiet – vulnerable. I was an easy target for some of the older bullies in my school at that time. there was one girl and her [...]

Dude so, I like need someone to talk to so, I am just messaging you so I can like say something because I know out of all my friends you would mind the least. SO, I have noticed that there are like “different” people at this school that may not fit in with the “cool” [...]

Bullying doesn’t sound like much, but it actually is. It’s horrible, cruel and just makes you feel so worthless. I know my experience isn’t as bad as other people’s but what the bullies did to me; I’ll never forget it. They called me names, acted like my friends, ran away from me and even manipulated [...]

I’ve been constantly bullied for 2 years during my primary education. I was bullied in years 5-6 for being ‘girly’, ‘skinny’, ‘shy’, ‘scared of boys’ and apparently, for being ‘smart’. I hated it and I despised it so so much. I was new at the school and I thought it would be a fresh start [...]

Statistics show that over 80% of boys and men do not come forward about abuse out of fear and shame. Patrick Dati was one of those statistics, but after years of depression and attempts with suicide, he has decided to tell his story. Patrick is honored to have been working in conjunction with the SAMHSA/ [...]

Everyone in the world has a story, but this is mine. My name is Hope Lloyd and I am 15 years of age. I’ve only just finished high school and what can I say about high school, it was a circus of wild animals and clowns juggling names into your face. I was about 6 [...]

It started in 7th grade when I started to talk to this guy and eventually started liking him. I thought he liked me back but one day he called me ugly in front of my face and said mean things about me to others. He and his friends made a a joke of it; every [...]

I’ve been seeing so many things lately on bullying and finally seeing that a lot are starting to share stories about it. I’ve been starting to feel like maybe its time to share mine and come out about it. When I was 10 years old my parents moved my brother (13) and I to Florida [...]

I’ve been seeing a lot of people start to share their stories about their bullying experience’s and I feel like its time I share mine to. I’ve been bullied since I was around the years of 9-11. I struggle with anorexia and bulimia nervosa disorder and cutting. I’ve been pushed to the point of trying [...]