This is a recent story about bullying.  Last night my 13 year old daughter was committed to a Psych Unit because some boy thought it would be funny to tell her she was lame and no one wanted her around so she might as well just kill herself!  Unfortunately my daughter to it to heart and is now in the hospital :(   

I remember when I was in the 8th Grade, I remember there was this girl that would make fun of me. She would call me fat and ugly and that my shoes were out of date and my clothes were from the hand-me-down stores. I really didn't understand why she hated me. We all weared uniform so I don't know how my clothes were ugly. But that wasn't the point, she will always humiliate me. She would curse at me. I remember having her for my English class and I never wanted to go to class because I was afraid of her. I told my mom and she came up to the school but the school didn't do anything about it. Not even move me to a different class. One day she was behind me and we were waiting for the teacher. She was tugging on my hair and she was calling me names! I really got tired of it so I stood up for myself. Yes I did curse at her, yes, I told her I was tired of her. Maybe if I were 18 at that time, I would've handled it another way but I was 13 and in the 8th grade. I didn't hit her and she didn't hit me but, she didn't bother me anymore. I've still get made fun of sometimes but I don't let it get to me. I have 2 little sisters that look up to me and they mean the world to me. I can careless about a snobby bully. I am grateful of who I am and what I have and whatever my parents provide for me. 

When I was in high school, I was at the bottom of the ladder. There was no physical bullying but I was invisible, until someone decided to point out my flaws or make fun of me. Compared to a lot of other people, I had it good but it was still hard. I ended up harming myself and still struggle with the issue. When people found out it got worse. For years it continued. I lost so many friends because they didn't want to be seen with me and the bullies used this as ammunition. I left high school two years ago and everything just got better. I disassociated myself with so many people from high school. I learned to love the parts of me that people laughed about. It's not an instant change, it does take a while. But when you get out of high school you discover people who share your quirks and have been through similar things. You stop being an outcast and you start to find where you "belong" in life.

I know how it feels to be bullied.

I was bullied in middle school and all of high school. I would be teased and people would call me such bad names,I would cry a lot and ask god why me. I never got an answer.

I was left out of games and people wouldnt talk to me, and I didnt have any friends. and I would always eat lunch alone.

It hurt a lot and thats why I am a big supporter agenst bullying, I dont want kids to go through what I had to go through.

I hope people understand whats going on in the persons whos getting bullied and speak up and do something if they know someone who is getting bullied before they take there own life.

Every Day i would get on the bus with either a all girls school or the private all boys school and the kids that lived in my area!!!! Coz my stop was the last one before school i would never get a seat i would have stand.. no would move thier bag and i never bother ed asking coz i didnt wanna sit next to mean ppl..

every day i things thrown at me in class ppl called me fuzzy coz my curly hair.. when ever i went to the toilet during break al tghe snobby gilrs would be doing thier make up and say mean things and would throw water over the toilet door

One day when we had to do swimming class in hpe i couldnt swim due to having my peroid back in school i neve rlike tampons so when the giirls found out that i didnt use them once the class fiinish and i was standing near the gate to walk out one of the boys must have been told and pushed me into the pool... and year 10 camp i had them as well and the girls told the whole camp and then tried to capsize my boat...

i was never one skip class i would just ignore them coz at the end of the day once we left school woukd would they be!!!!! just young kids with the wolrd to deal with!!! they had issues of thier own!! prolbems and things thye were not happy with in thier livces so to make them feel better they picked on me!!! go on call me what ever u like becasue i odnt care what u think u are no body to me and i odnt need ppl like u in my life so good luck in ur life becasue i know mine will be better for the fact that u made me strong and made m relaise that ppl are mean!!!

every day it got easier

some days werent good but i relasied i had it better than the ppl with 20 fake freinds i had 2 freidns but never best friends!!!

I have been bullied three years now since middle school. on 7th grade I felt like I didnt belong, every single one of the people on my class had a group of friends they sit together at lunch, they went out on the weekends, meanwhile I sat alone on the lunch area, the only thing I did on the weekends was watch TV and play with my dog (many time I felt like the only one I could count on was him my dog, an animal). On Mondays I constantly tried to make my parents let me stay on the house so I didnt have to see the kids at school. At school I constantly felt the whispering behind my back, the silent chuckles when I enter the room, the very annoying stares, that say I’m just waiting for you to fail so I can humiliate you in front of the whole class. finally at the end of the year I had an emotional breakdown in the middle of my English class because one of the boys pushed me out of the line to check my work and said I’m first, he didnt even look at me when he pushed me he just did. finally the year ended, but not the nightmare, the next  year I thought that for a chance everything was going to be different but it didnt it got worse the only thing the people in my class look for me to was for classwork’s  that  I was good on or if I had something new they liked. that year I became friends with  the my best friend today, because both of us were being rejected and the only way we could feel better was by using our art skills, I met  him on the art room where I spent most of my time in 8th grade but even though I find my best rind there I only saw him 20 to 30 minutes every recess the rest of the time I was with people who ignore me and used me, every time I tried to change to be accepted they asked for something more so I got tierd of changing and stay myself, after a while they started to insult me and make fun of in front of the teacher, they didnt say anything they sometimes even laugh, my parents went to talk to the principal, to the psychologist, my teachers they always said they would do something but they didnt. finally this year I found group of friends that help me stand up for myself and stop this eventhogh it still bothers me that they laugh at my back but I ignore it and I know that the only thing that matters is how I feel about myself and that I no longer going to be affected by this, they only do this because I have many things they don’t have and that bothers them not me.

maria isabel londono

in elementary i was called names because i had become friends with a girl that no liked. she had no friends and neither did i, so we became friends until i moved. we never kept contact.   Then when i had moved to another elementary school, i was sexually harassed by an older kid for a while.

i was bullied every year of high school. i never did any thing wrong i never made fun  of any one i was a nice kid that got great grades. i remember one year i was friends with a group of girls, i sat with them every day at lunch. one day they all turned on me telling me how much they hated me how stupid i was and that i wasn't aloud to sit with them any more. i ate lunch in the art room for the rest of my 3 years of high school. all of my best friends in school were my teachers. when those girls made fun of me i told the principle and in the end i had to so i was sorry to them for something i didn't do, i never heard an apology from them. one year i dated a boy, i didn't want to be with him any more because he was abusive he used to hit me and call me mean names so i broke it off. he had every one of his friends stand in the hall way and while i walked by they would make BOOM sounds and call me fat or a hippo, that lasted 2 years. my high school life was hell and if there's any thing i can do to make some ones better i would and i will. i never want any one to feel the way i felt.

Everything starts with ONE!

My 12 year old son, Alex, is being tortured by bullies at his school. A few weeks ago, a fellow student told him to "go kill yourself and you'll be doing the world a favor!" No child should ever have to hear that!!

We are responding by starting an anti-bullying campaign called STOPP: Standing Together - Organizing & Promoting Peace. Our first goal as an organization is to raise money so that we can bring the powerful and life-changing presentation by Stand for the Silent (SFTS) to our community. 

Alex came up with the STOPP bracelet concept as a "nonverbal message to STOP BULLIES". You can own your very own STOPP bracelet for ONE EASY PAYMENT of $1 each (plus $1 S&H) OR buy 5 STOPP bracelets for $5 and get your sixth one FREE! We can ship up to 12 bracelets for the $1 S&H. 13-24 = $2. 25-49 = $3. Buy 50 or more bracelets and get FREE SHIPPING!

Please consider purchasing a bracelet to show your support for this escalating problem affecting our children. The bracelets were donated by Alex's Grandma Sharon so ALL money we receive will be donated to SFTS to cover their travel expenses to Alex's school.

Stand for the Silent has been featured in the movie "Bully" and the CNN documentary "The Bully Effect". Please visit www.standforthesilent.org for more information on this amazing organization.

If you would like to help us reach our goal, please include the following information with your order:

1. Size (Youth or Adult)
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3. Your shipping address
4. Check or well-disguised cash for total cost (including S&H)
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PO Box 43411
Brooklyn Park, MN 55443

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