In elementary school I wasn't a very popular child. I was what most consider a nerd, geek and pretty awkward, but i've always had a good heart. I was called names, taunted and brought to tears from elementary all the way to my freshman year of high school. I was overweight, had acne and had little to no social skills. The turning point was my sophmore year. I was finsihed with tears and feeling that I would never be "accepted" and tranferred that energy in being the best me I could be.

I am the mother of a middle school girl who gets bullyed by kids at mandarin middle as well as a girl who pretends to be her friend and only wants to associate with my daughter when no one else is around! all this irregardless of  the fact my daughter tells teachers and the principal all of which do not do anything about nor do they make these bullys see the consequences of their actions how many more kids need to be depressed, always in fear of when they are going to have rubber bands flung at them spit balls flung at them their locker slammed on their back and shoulder? have their stuff tossed around rediculed teased to the point of feeling worthless and even worse committing suicide does anyone grasp how deep the scares do go and can go? should it start going to lawsuite and hitting the parents or so called parents of these bullys wallet? Why should it take this when these kids cry out for help when they are being bullyed? I would really like to see the parents of the bullys stand and be parents teach your kids not to be be bullys! and the kds who are being bullyed UNJUSTLY! get some justice and sanity back in to their lives!

I've been bullied all my life because of my disability. But since I'm in high school I'm not bullied as much. But there is still kids that look at me funny or whisper and walk away. To me bullying isn't right. No kid should be bullied just because there's something wrong with them. To me everyone should be treated equal. After all this I learned to do stuff by myself. I'm hardly around people, I'm usually quiet. For all them kids who are getting bullied or have been bullied in their life time I Just Want YOU TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE NOT ALONE!! THERE IS SOMEONE OUT THERE THAT WILL HELP YOU GET THROUGH THINGS, DONT STAND THEIR AND LET THE SILENCE GET THE BEST OF YOU, STAND OUT AND SPEAK UP, WHETHER IT TAKES A FEW PEOPLE TO NOTICE.

Being a bullying victim is hard, especially when you go from being a face in the crowd to the national spotlight. Such is the case with Love Jones Girlz, the hot teen group everyone is buzzing about from New York City. Currently on the cusp of becoming household names, the three dynamos who comprise the group—Claire Jones, age 16; Noni Storm Chinn, age 16; and Taylor Nirvana Jones; age 15—know well the trials and tribulations of being a teen in today’s social media-driven world. From the usual challenges of peer pressure to the dangerous arena of online bullying, Love Jones Girlz decided it was time to turn a negative into a positive.

Just in time for National Anti-Bullying Awareness Month, the trio is releasing their music video “RUMORS,” the first from their debut EP “Addicted to Lipgloss.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NItt6BISC4

Having all been victims of bullying themselves, the girls called on their personal experiences to create the song. “After we started becoming popular,” says group member Taylor Jones, “we were getting so many negative comments on YouTube, and people started saying they hate us for no reason. It wasn’t fair and it wasn’t right.” Adds Noni Storm Chinn: “The problem is, social media has empowered people to hide behind their computers, be faceless and say some of the nastiest things. And that’s cowardly.”

“So we decided this would be the best way to take control of the situation and push back,” explains Claire Jones—“not only at some of the comments, but to take a stand against bullying itself. We are hoping that by putting this video out, it will empower other teens.”

I always imagined my life to be something spectacular, i imagined that i'd be one of those people in this world that would make a change, and be someone of significance. When my parents divorced and i was 3 years old, i began to feel less important. In prep at age 5, i was bullied because i was different. I was never included in anything, and i was left out of it all. It was in prep at primary (elementary) school, that i was taught the term "bullying"... it was described to us that bullying was when violence was used either mentally, physically or verbally on a reoccurring basis. I automatically assumed that this "bully" had to be someone around the same age as myself. It was when i was abused by my father that i also realised that a bully could actually take form in someone who was close to us. Although being physically, mentally and verbally abused hurt me, i saw my escape to be the schoolgrounds, it was not until grade 5 that i was not only bullied at home, but bullied at school, by not only my fellow peers, but also my teachers and principal. This bullying then shaped my life, i was now totally numb to being bullied and started to accept the fact that this would just be my life, and that i would have to get over it. In year 7, i was again bullied, by some buys in the year above me, these boys would stalk and follow me around the school, throw things at me, call out names and push me into my locker when they would walk past. I had such a hard time with these boys that i pretended i was sick so that i wouldn't have to go to school and face them. Eventually it got to be too much and i told the teachers, the teachers stopped these boys from calling out things, and i moved states. When i moved states i was yet again, you guessed it, bullied. People made facebook pages about me, and talked about me all the time due to the simple fact that i wore makeup. I attempted suicide 5 times before i realised that these bullies weren't worth it. These people that had caused me so much pain, shouldnt be given the satisfaction of seeing me leave this world while they were still a part of it. I came to realise that i was worth more than they ever saw me to be. Since then i have worked so hard to take myself out of situations where i can be bullied. I have worked hard in school, I have left my dad, and i am finally Safe.

After watching the movie, "bully" i realised that so many other people are going through what i was. I realised that although i felt alone at the time, i was actually not alone, because so many others were facing the same problems and situations as me. I had no one to talk to, but in the end i pulled through and took a stand. If you ever get bullied, tell someone, let them know what is happening and be the person that you are, be the amazing person that you may not be able to see right now, but that everyone else sees in you. Speak Up, and dont be afraid to get help.

High school was horrible for me. People called me fat and told me I looked like a boy and teased that my younger brother and I were twins. He's 13 months younger than me. A boy once got me to sleep with him. I was 16 and I later found out he was only 14!! He then got his friends together and taunt me at school. Call me a whore or slut almost everyday during lunch. Because I didn't want to deal with it, I ended up dropped out my Senior year. Even after high school I was bullied by people online but there I felt like I could stand up to them better. I don't do well with telling people off in person.

I'm 31 and the emotional scars are still with me and it is a daily struggle to tell myself that I'm worth something. Thankfully, I have a very loving husband who is always there when I really need him. My heart goes out to the families that are having a hard time understanding their children and why they start acting out. Please take the time to talk with them without coming off mad. I had that issue with my mother and it only made things worse so I stopped telling her things. Put a huge strain on our relationship. So please! Please talk to your children. Let them know you will always be there when they need that support they are so desperately looking for.

Through out my school years I was the shortest one in my class up to the end of middle school then high school it was for my disabliltys and how I always needed help even today They people sill bully me for the stuff I need help on

It all started in grade 6, I no longer seemed to fit in with the other kids at school.  I didn't understand why they started being so mean, they would call me names all day, they would poke and stare at me like I was a lab specimen, and it had just continued to get worse as the days went on.  Then it got so bad that they would push me off the top of the play structure or push into it and laughing every time I yelled in pain.  As I got older things seemed to have settled down when I started at a new school in grade 8.  I thought "Hey new school, new people, new start."  I was never more wrong in my life.  the poking and staring turned into open mockery and tripping, they started to take my things and throw them down the halls.  Come grade 10 I was getting tripped and hit and called very mean things,  I had become a very angry person, my anger started to control my life and I never knew why I was so angry all of the time or at who or what.  Finally grade 12 everything started off great until people started to return to their old habits, people even started ditching me at lunch.  On a good day I would get ditched once, on a normal day I would get ditched two to four times, and on a bad day five to six times in a period of only one hour.  It had gotten so bad that I had wanted revenge.  But before that in grade 11 and some in grade 12 I had made 3 attempts at suicide and even gone into depression so bad that I was tired all of the time.  Anyway,  finally things are starting to turn around, some of my long time tormenters are even being nice to me.  One day a group of them walked by and started using my lunch as a soccer ball, but one of the guys told them to stop and picked it up and gave it back to me.  For all those being Bullied I say hang in there because there is a turning point and things will get better!  

Today was the first time in 2 months that someone did not physically bully me, it fells good not to be pushed or slapped upside the head. Because of this recent bullying, my parents have decided to place me in a traditional school. There are only 14 kids in my grade. This friday at 3:00pm I leave the bullies behind. But I also leave my best friend Teri behind. I also have been a mentor for some 6th graders. I informed them today that after Friday they will rarely see me. I find it sad how people will bully others to the point where they don't want to go to school anymore. To the point of self harm or to the point of suicide. I don't get why people do this to others. Because the people how have gotten to the point of taking their own life, they have people now that are hurting badly also , their family, their friends. And bullies cause this to happen. We sit there and watch another person get beat up, and all we do is sit there and watch, we don't get up, or say anything, we sit there and let it happen. The pain needs to stop, we need to stand up for one another. So the next time you see someone getting bullied stand up for them, tell an adult, do anything to help.

But I would be lying

I lie all the time

I wish I didn’t have to-or at least saw the other path to take

People wouldn’t accept me if they didn’t think I was better than I am

I have to outrun myself

And others

I have never been able to simply take a step back and be happy with what I see

To me, life is never being able to see what I am

Do I look like that to other people?

Do they see through my mask?

I have yet to find one person I have not lied to

Sadly, even my parents are in a group with the others

I must make my life a pity-story

And for what?

Fake sympathy, attempted empathy

I am so much better than this

This habit

This habit is killing me

I am hidden behind this wall I keep building

The only way to break it down is to admit what I have done

But I cannot do that

So instead, no one will know the real me

And I worry that even my husband and kids will be put behind this wall

I can’t be happy with the person I am

And you think life is hard for you

I don’t mean to compare

But think again