Well I've also been different among others here who have typed their own story. It all started in Carver, mn when i moved to a new neighborhood, this was our 2nd or 3rd time moving. I was around 6 or 7, and i became friends with people across the street, who later teased me. For being ugly, weird, they pretended to like me, they lied to me all the time. I don't remember being bullied at school, because i was only there for 3 years, but this one girl always stalked me. So, I moved. St cloud, mn. I was entering 4th grade, and it seemed okay for a while but it took a turn. Suddenly, i was the out cast. No one seemed to come around me, or pick me for sports. Everytime we played a game and this was around my house, if i was it they didn't want to play anymore. They looked at me like i was a freak, or there was something wrong with me. It got to the point where i didn't care what i looked like anymore. I didn't brush my hair, or teeth. I isolated myself. Sometimes, if my 3 friends werent there, i was all alone. crying, helpless in the lunch room and the play ground. Then, i was about to go into 5th, it was probably the last couple months of 4th grade, i sent a love letter to one of my friends who lived near me. Everyone found out about it. I was teased for about a week. Sometimes i faked being sick, just to not go. I'm surprised i got into junior high. This was out of school but, i was at my friends house, and her brother started to call me names like 'cry baby' or 'pussy' and hit me. I wasn't doing anything to him, all i remember is me racing home and crying. Go forward until the age of 11 or 12. My family meets this other family that are breeders, and we become friends. one of there sons who was a year younger than myself, started to hit me as well. It's not like i did anything, i was following him and boom. got teased and hit. He still does it even though im 16 and hes 15. He tells his parents things that arent true, and lies about me. his 2 sisters are my friends, and the rest of his family is fine, but they have a nurse. For their youngest daughter who is disabled. She thought she saw something about me having an affair and i didnt. they believed her. the same guy, the 15 year old, said lies beyond belief about me after that. That i purged, lying about i left this or that on, or i broke that and mentally teasing me about everything.  

It's worse that his parents believe every single word the boy is saying.

I have been sexually abused, mentally and physically abused. None of this was done by my parents, and they didn't like it that i go through this. I'm just a 16 year old girl, i even got an eating disorder now. I pray for this bullying to stop for me and everyone else.

I've always been what you might call "different." My difference has a name: Asperger's Syndrome, also known as autism. Many, many autistic kids get bullied, and I was one of them. From elementary school through junior high, I had kids lie in wait for me on the way home from school (in elementary) or on the school bus (junior high.) The school ignored my parents' pleas to do something about the situation. "We're not responsible for things that take place off school grounds." When an older boy sexually assaulted me, the vice-principal of the school shrugged it off with, "Boys will be boys." I wish now that I'd reported it to the police when the school did nothing.

Today I'm an autistic advocate and I want to help other autistic people who are being bullied, whether they're kids or adults. I'm working with other autistic people who have survived bullying. I don't know yet what form this will take, but I won't stand buy and let other kids go through what I went through.

Ever since 3rd grade I was always bullied for my weight, how I looked, and the way I dressed. I was never the popular kid. As years went on it  got worse. I never told anyone cause I figured no one would care. Once I hit 7th grade I noticing that I liked girls and guys. It worried me because I thought if someone were to find out I'd never be able to live it down. The bullying continued through middle school and that was when I started to cut. My mom caught me cutting and threatened to ground me and talk stuff away from me so instead of cutting I just stopped eating and that's when I began to lose weight. When I reached my first year of high school I finally decided to tell some friends that I was "Bisexual". One of my friends that I told would always kind of pick on me about it and tell other people and it really made me think down about myself. I am now a Senior in high school and to this day I still get bullied about my looks, my current weight, how i look and dress and for the fact that i like girls. I don't normally tell anyone because really not a lot of people actually take charge to help. They just say "everything will get better" or "just ignore it". Yes, I do have  depression from everything and yes, sometimes I do still cut. When I see someone else get bullied I get mad. What's the point in bullying anyways? My advice is to stay strong and talk to someone. Get the word out that these things are happening and try to make a change. Yes, change doesn't come instantly, but work for it.  We need to make this change so we don't lose any others. Bullying needs to stop. We are all human!

From the time I was a child, through high school, and even up until the last ten years, I have dealt with a Narcissistic father. So my experiences with being bullied about things began from infancy. My self esteem was ruined by the time I entered grade school, and I believe that's what the kids latched on to. There were several kids in grade school (then Jr. High, then High School) who made it a point to taunt anyone who was different. I was different. I was also very sensitive, which made me a point on the radar. I developed PTSD by the time I was seven. I didn't remember (and still don't to this day) most of my childhood, and I was so traumatized I began to run away at the age of nine. This lead to years of being on the street, put into worse situations, starting drugs as a teenager to escape and try to find somewhere to "fit in" and "be loved". I never finished high school, though I did get a GED. I wasn't able to complete college, or work, or do anything "normal" due to the PTSD, severe anxiety, and lack of self-worth. I was in and out of hospitals for attempted suicide. I wasn't even able to pull myself together until after I was I was 40, after 40 years of being bullied and pushed around by others, and after 15 years of therapy. I'm still not all together, but I'm doing a hell of a lot better, now. Bullying has a lifetime effect on people.

When I was in the 4th grade, I went through puberity. It was very hard for me because I was the only girl in my school that was going through that stage already. Soon all the kids on the playground made fun of me, and eventually the older girls would tease me in the bathroom. One day, I went to the restroom right before the older girls got their restroom break, and when they came in they stood on the toilet in the stall next to me and tried to peek at me. I don't know why, and I never cared to, but it was very horrific! My mom went to the school and the principal wouldnt do anything. Eventually the girls got caught by a teacher. It stopped for about a week, nothing happened at all. Then, one day in the hall six girls came up to me and said they would hurt me. They pushed me against the wall and pulled my hair and made fun of how i dressed. Lucky for me, the principal wittnessed the confrontation and the girls got in trouble. Not long after that, a boy that was my friend beat me up on the playground, I didnt even tell a teacher what happened because the next day, I beat him up. I know it wasnt the right thing to do, I knew it even then. But I was taught to take care of myself no matter what, and to help any one that needed help. So in highschool, every time I was someone being bullied, I usually ended up in trouble, because I would do whatever it took to help that person. It breaks my heart to know bullying is still a big problem. And even though I am 24 now, I will still stand for those who need me, no matter how old or young they are.

   Well i am going to start off by saying i was born in Santa Anna, CA and i was born on June 28, 1992 and i really dont remeber california and that can be a good thing an can also be a bad thing.. than we ended up moving to pocatello and i think its changed our life and how are family is...  I have made a lot of new friends  and i also had made friends that i thought were my friends but they really were not.. but i guess its life and we move on.. School has not been very good for me i have struggled all through high school and tenth grade year was the worse but we dont need to talk about it... but i have also learned that i need to pick my friends better and pick  the friends that will be there for you  when you  need them.. i just wanted to say i think i have good firends right now and you know who you are and i really apprecaite it.. i think that people need to take the chance to get to know someone before they judge them cause they can hear everything about them but they really wont know until they actually meetthat person  and thats what happens to me all the time and it makes me mad cuase i am a really good person and i can end up being one of your best friends cause i would always be there for you when u need someone to talk to or needed help.. hey people need to be happy for there parents casue people  say all the time oh i hate my parents and they call them swear words and all this but they might not show it but it really hurts them and you dont know it until they are gone and that they are not there for you anymore... so spend all the time you can with your parents and dont miss the chance cause they care about us... life motto dont let anyone stop you from what your doing in life cause its your life and  you can do whatever you put your mind to.. anything else just let me know... i have been through a lot and i have helped my friends and have been through a lot with them ccause everyone needs someone to have by there side... I would like to say i am so greatful for my family and friend support i dont know what i would do with out them and they are the ones that keep me going and i have gotten accepted to college and hoping i can do my dream job and be a cop and i am really protective or my friends and family and i dont like when they are upset so dont mess with them.. I have been through a lot but its life and there are bumps in the road but i will always have friends that will be by my side when i need them.. please let me know what you think.. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to tell me.    Well i was n't accepted into college but no worries i can still become a police officer..I have been enjoying life so far stillbut there was a couple times where i was upset and did not care about life anymore.. But than i think of my friends and family and i think well if i did something stupid than my friends and family would be really upset.. I have made some really cool new friends and i have been helping my friends out. Idk if i have already said this but i had surgey casue i had two hernias and i am still paying off the medical debt than its hard to get a job..but thats all for now.. My life wasnt as bad as many people. but i was also the one that everyone picked on at school that would be in a bad mood, i would always skip class and come home balling and my parents would worry about me a lot. the school thought i made it up and they wouldnt trust me. They let everything fly and they dont want to do anything about it. I still get teased and life is really hard for me. i still dont have many friends i am usually always at home most of the time.I am still afraid to go into public alone. it caused me anixety, depression and mental and physical damage. i never knew anyone cared and it took me 20 years to finally believe it. 

I'm 21 years old and I'm just starting to become comfortable with who I am. When I was in middle school, I was bullied - people would trip me, spit gum in my hair, grab me, and make fun of my appearance. They would call me "Elvis" because I had more hair than usual. I was even picked on by kids that I considered my best friends. They would leave notes in my locker teasing me, making me believe they were from someone else and laugh at me when I would talk to them about it. My closest friend started following a more popular girl and they both started a hurtful school-wide rumor about me and a guy. When I broke down in front of one of the deans, they suspended my friend and the other girl from school. It hurt because I felt like I couldn't trust my best friend because of what she did. But I didn't have many friends, so I forgave her when she told me that she made a mistake and apologized. Even though I haven't forgotten what she did, it's been 10 years and we're still friends to this day.

I was really shy and insecure until my senior year in high school, when a teacher helped me start to open up and be myself. Since graduating, he's become one of my closest friends. I've come back as part of his staff and now I see bullying happen right in front of me from an adult's point of view. It's terrible seeing the students that I work with go through some of the same things I went through when I was younger. But in some ways it helps me connect with them and help them through it.

Reading the stories on this site and seeing Bully really moved me. It's overwhelming how many people have been bullied at some point in their life. And it's crazy how some people can still say that bullying isn't a problem or believe that there's nothing we can do. It IS a problem. And it's got to change.

 i was bullied because of the colour of my skin. and it was a horrible because nobody wanted to help me or stand by me and i was all alone. this lead to self harm and depression. I remember running home, crying not being able to tell anyone what happened because i was  ashamed of myself. my friends would laugh whenever the bullies bullied me and i just didnt know what to do. And now that i have grown older, things have change. Its much much better now. I would really like to help the other kids out there who are getting bullied and are suffering alone because i know how much it hurts

I was bullied majority of the time in Middle School I was pushed down and made fun of a few times the one time I lashed back out I was suspended from my school for the last week of school and didn't get my yearbook signed which i still own as a reminder.  Through out middle school I was verbally bullied because of my looks and what I wear and even my religious beliefs. 

I found a group of friend that helped me and in High School I stood up and said something about it and it stopped. Today I do not put up with bullying and going to teach my 2 kids when they go to school what to watch out and more importantly to communicate to people if they are being bullied. 

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