I gettting called bad names and people on the internet keep naging me that I do not know. That makes me sad.

Hey my name is Allison Linebaugh i'm 14 years old and i'm the shy girl that doesn't do anything bad and does good in school and does what her mom says to do and people like to make fun of that and not only that i'm not the most skinniest girl in the world and my friends like to pick on me for that and i don't really STAND UP FOR MYSELF when they do because i don't want to hurt them even though they hurt me and i have tried telling them that it hurts when they call me names like your fat and this and that but they just kinda laugh at me so i just say forget it i'm done trying what's the point i mean how can it be called bullying when it's true about what there saying i mean the bad thing is is, that i already feel the way they feel about me like when they call me fat or ugly it's not like it isn't true but i guess it's true what they say the worse bully is yourself but it just hurts 10 times more when they say because then that's when you think it's true but that's why i'm here to MAKE A CHANGE and to STOP BULLYING but i just hope one day i can STAND UP FOR MYSELF(:

I grow up in a little city called Inverness. Everyone knew each other and they all liked each other... then there was me. I was picked on often. Things got worse when 5th grade rolled around. I was friends with everyone thought everyone liked me.. i guess i was wrong. i had a friends who i called my BEST FRIEND. I told her everything. We hung out and everything. Then the summer came we stopped talking. Now its 6th grade. I'm about a month into my first year of middle school, my mom just let me get a myspace. i was going through peoples profiles then i see my picture. I click it and then big letters at the top is said "I AM A LESBIAN" i was crushed. i never had a boyfriend because i was only in 6th grade... i never worried about one. I was on the phone with my best friend Skye and i told her to go look at it. It said we did things with each other. It was horrible. I then called my mom in tears and told her and we went right up to the school board... all they said was " we will work to fix this" Months go buy of bullying. My mom and dad separated and she met my step dad. We move to Michigan to think things would get better. I was wrong. i got picked on for talking different, being a southern, just everything they could find. I came into full depression didnt do anything for months cried my self to sleep everyday after school. Then one day i woke up and said "Im changing everything." I became friends with everyone. I had the greatest middle school years i could have ever had. Then freshman year came, i met the love of my life. We dated for about a year then he met another girl, he left me for her because she was "easy." I was crushed. I never realized how much i loved him until i love him. i created a ask.fm. people could ask you questions anonymously. So people did. I got questions calling a me a slut, asking me if i ever did things with him.. when i never did. the rest of that year i felt like when i walked down the hallways and everyone talked about me behind my back. I lost everything because of him. But now sophomore year is here and im going to make it the greatest. Im not going to let there words bother me. I'm going to be friends with the Nerd, jocks, preps, gays, EVERYONE. im here to take a stance to end bullying in my high school. Its time to make a change!

I have an 11 year old sister who has special needs. She has an undiagnosed developmental delay meaning she processes the world much slower than traditional kids her age. It took her many extra years to learn how to do basic skills like speak, walk, run and more. She is different, but that does not make her any less important than anyone else. Many people do not understand her and they automatically judge her just because she is not exactly the same as everyone else. No she has never come home from school with a bloody nose or a black eye from bullying but she has told me how the other kids act around her. Because she processes things slower she does not understand that when kids around her stare at her and whisper things while laughing and looking at her they are not being nice. People have asked me what is wrong with your sister, and is she a retard, and other awful questions. When I hear these things I just get so angry because to me, my sister is better than a traditional sister because she has taught me to stand up and be more aware of bullying towards other kids with special needs or towards some kids who are just different than most people. Although my sister has not realized she is slightly being bullied, I have realized just how much minor bullying goes on everywhere I go just because someone is a little different. I am ready to stand up to bullies, please join me and many others.

     Something happened with in our community recently. A young man took his own life because, he was bullied. I'd like to take the opportunity to share with some of you something that happened to me long ago. I'd like to do this because I am so passionate about bullying. 
     When I was in the 7th grade I was beaten by a junior in high school. Her and her friends said it was a case of mistaken identity but, to this day I will never know that for sure. I was a tiny girl then. Just out of elementary school. Excited to meet new friends from different schools when I entered middle school. I was a happy and carefree girl. I liked to ride my bike, hang out with friends and do every normal thing a kid wants to do.
       I was walking with two of my friends on that night. A car full of teenagers pulled up and all of the sudden they were chasing me. My two friends looked on with fear. afraid, I'm sure to intervene, and I don't blame them one bit. One of the girls held my head, another held my feet and another straddled me, kicked me, and pounce on top of me with her knees. She beat my face until it was black and blue. By the time this was happening there were other teens pulled up to "the scene" and they enjoyed the show. It seemed like nobody would help me until finally a boy grabbed her off of me. 
       I went home that night. Beaten, battered and bruised. My parents weren't home. We had personal care homes for the elderly when this happened and they were away taking care of one them. My Mother's dear friend helped me that night. I went to bed, horrified and afraid to sleep. The next day I awoke with pain in my abdominal areas. Being a kid and in shock, I didn't know what on earth to think of the pain I was in. I thought it would pass. The next day I went to school. Still in excruciating pain the principle of the school called my Mom and Dad to come and get me. He felt I should be seen by the Dr. My parents had been home and knew of everything by then. They took me to the emergency room where the Dr.'s examined be and performed tests. Cat scans and x-rays. They found that I had been so badly beaten that my internal organs were swollen and bruised. The slightest little bump and my spleen may rupture and I could bleed to death. 
          My parents, sister and brother were so saddened. To have a family member hurt and not to be able to do much about it was devastating. The girls that were involved were held accountable for there actions. I'd prefer not to get into too much detail about that. My childhood and teen years were never quite the same. It changed me. It hardened me a bit. I had a hard time trusting in people for the longest time. I have to admit I still do. It wasn't until I found my husband, that I actually was able to soften. He's been my rock.  
        I'm not sure how people will take this but, I've really never been able to share this. It's still hard for me to talk about. I've shared this story with my children. I wanted them to know the hurt and pain that people can inflict on someone. It makes me so sad to see what bullying can do to someones soul. If I was able to say one thing it would be STAY STRONG. There is so much living and so much more to life than just your teenage years. I've been blessed with three beautiful children and a family that loves me unconditionally. Let's do something about this mess! Let's stop the bullying! Thanks guys for listening !

Hey my name is Aliyah. I'm 13 years old. People tease me and push me around and call me names just because i'm gay.Nothing is wrong with being gay.

People always pick on me and push me down just because i'm tiny and don't weigh much well that doesn't mean take advantage of people like get a life you go to school to learn not to pick on people.

Now i am home schooled because i cant deal with it anymore because if i would have stayed i would have gotten in a fight and i am too good for that.

I remember being beaten, tripped, teased, excluded, and otherwise made to feel small and worthless.  If you met me now, you'd never know it.  I'm smart, articulate, confident, reasonably good looking, and have friends.

It wasn’t always that way.  Those are learned skills.  I will always be the fat kid.  I will always feel uncool.  I will always be the band geek.  The kid whose homework got copied. The one who was pushed into the lockers. The kid no one wanted to go with to prom.

I remember wanting to die.  Just so it would stop.  Just so they would feel what I felt - if only for a moment.

I wish I could say you forget.  But you don't. 

All I can say is it gets better. 

For those in the mix right now.  For those on the edge.  Hear me.  I beg you.  School ends.  You keep rising.  They stay behind.  Sooner or later their voices shrink into the background. 

It doesn't feel like it right now I'm sure.  I remember.  You'll be amazed at how little middle school or high school will matter in a few short years. Pretty soon it will all be a distant memory.

So gut it out.  You can take it.

You never know who you'll meet tomorrow.  You never know what adventure awaits.  I promise there's love and laughter out there. It's coming.

Just hang on.

Michael Fitzpatrick

Hey Im Greg and my challenge of bullying was when I first moved down here and everyone used too judge me because of how I talked and acted they used too call me Gaygory because I was gay and my full name is Gregory but it took for me too stand up once and not back down for it too end . I feel like if you show bullies that you have a strong mindset and they dont intimidate you then they'll back off and leave you alone

Hello my name is Raquel Santiago and I am 22 years old.

When it comes to BULLYING my experience was nationwide on TV with over 1 million viewers. It was a horrible experience but my motto in life is to never let someone take my smile away because i had it taken from me before. so what i chose to do was to stand up, to stand up for myself and what i believe in. I got food and alcohol dumped on me while other girls just sat there and watched, while the camera men are staring at me with their cameras glued to their fingers, while security sat there watching with no expression while production could only think of how much bigger their paychecks are gonna be.. they didn't care, they didn't care about how it can damage someone its perfect for TV more ratings more $$. if that was their daughter they would of stopped it but they didn't. it was torture!!!!!! 5 minutes of that, im surprised i had so much self control, cuz i wanted to get up and knock her out but thats what she wanted me to do, she wanted me to fight. but I handled it good, i didn't let her break me, i kept my cool even though the alcohol was blinding me to a point i couldn't see anything, she is pulling my hair but i don't fight back i just push her away and tell her to stop, she throws my mattress in the pool so now i have nowhere to lay my head at night, and i said "thanks".. she comes back and pulls at my bathing suit so that my breasts would show mind you there were many people around and don't forget with the world watching, but i said "well at least my titties are nice" then the girl just gave up (for that night) pretty much because she couldn't do anything to break me. she would do anything in her power to take my smile from me but i refused to give her or anyone that power. after that i would get attacked physically and verbally until the day it was all over. When it comes to defeating bullies i kill them with kindness!!!! point being, i stand up for myself i fight back and i am here to be a voice for the ones who don't have one. i want to make a change.

XOXO Raquel