Throughout my life I have always been the odd one out. Even in my family. But it really didn't effect me until I was in high school. I remember it happening in elementary and middle school. Because of the way I was always left out of things going on, I became an introvert. 

When I began my junior year in high school I had hit rock bottom in my life. I had began to isolate myself so others didn't have to. But when the social bullying really began was towards the end of my junior year. Everyone that I was sitting with at lunch started leaving me out of conversations and eventually they just stopped talking with me completely. 

Summer came and summer went. Then my senior year came along. I had been looking forward to an amazing senior year. Then bam the social bullying started again. But this time it was with rumors about my personal decisions. Once again I isolated myself from others so they wouldn't have to isolate me.

Then I reunited with my best friend that I made in the 9th grade. And her life long best friend wasn't happy at all. She started isolating me in classroom conversations, activities, and made it so I was so uncomfortable sitting in the sit I was sitting in. 

I began crying myself to sleep most nights. I had been yelled at by her for being a best friend to HER best friend. And that by far isn't a crime at all. I had enough of the bullying from her. I told my teacher and he allowed me to switch seats so I wouldn't have to sit by her any more. He actually stood up for me when I emailed him about the situation. 

But then it didn't stop. It continued to go on after school and during the summer when all three of us would hang out. She purposely isolated me from conversations and would direct things to focus on her and her problems. 

And now as I'm in college it is finally stopping. I started to ignore her completely. And she has backed off completely. But ignoring the bully isn't always the solution. You SHOULD tell an adult immediately! And remember YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!!

-Kaleigh

Hi im lexi a middle school student in 8th grade.

I would have to say either march 14, or 15 it was. im in middle school. i was on the bus home to my dads and there were two kids talking about a boy that was up front of the bus. they were saying things like ," oh that fat, retarded kid is so annoying ", and " i want to punch him but i would probably get sued for $100,000 because hes retarded. And i work with disabled kids and kids with autism and such so i turned around and said," first of all he has autism and second he isn't fat. he is just a normal kid. the next Monday i went to the principle and told her about the boys and what they said.

                                                               - Lexi DeGumbia

I'm Kallie in Middle school. It started happening in fourth grade, I was bullied for my weight. Back then I didn't think weight mattered. But I over come that eventually. Then I got to middle school. I didn't want to make friends, so I isolated myself. I didn't talk much. People started spreding rumors that I was mentaly unstable. They teased me and called me crazy. All I could ask was "why? Why me?" I felt even more alone than before. I hated it. They made fun of me for being stronger than all the girls and some of the guys. I was really tall too. I felt no one was like me. I felt alone. I thought  if I talked more it would go away. So I talked and made some friends but most people thought I was annoying or in the way. Now I am still there trying to make the best of things and reaching out to others that need it. I have my important friends that don't hurt me. And I spread the word to others. 

My name is Sarah I am 15 and in high school. I first started getting bullied when I stated middle school I had friend from k-6 but then when I got in to middle we all stop talking and i had no one to talk to. I first time i really started to get bullied bad was in 7th grade i would miss a lot school because i got sick and then when I did show up girl would always say look who wanted to come to school today. I know it might not sound like it would hurt but deep down inside me it really hurt that people were saying that. Well after all of that stuff happening and school ended and summer began i thought next year is going to be a great year and different well I was very wrong. When 8th grade started up everything was fine at first until the middle of the school year. When one girl started calling me fat and she was apparently was my best friend I knew here since elementary school and when she came to my school as the new girl nobody like her and I was here only friend and let her eat lunch with me and friend even they didn't like her. So i was really confused when she started calling me fat. I hated lunch the most because I sat with her and she called me fat in front of everyone and no one did anything to stop her. After lunch she had the same class as me and she would follow me to it. She would push me and step on my shoes and she would take my stuff from me and keep it. When I got tried of all this happening i tried to tell her to stop but me being the nice person i could i am very shy. By the end of the year one night i was in my bed and started crying about it and i told my mom ever thing that was happening to me. For some reason i felt like it was my fault that i was be bullied or that she wasn't really bullying me. I didn't go to school the next day and ended up getting home school because i could take it anymore. Now I do online schooling. The really wired thing is the girl that was bullying me post on my Facebook saying that she miss me. I don't even think she know that what she was saying was killing me inside. So I'm taking a stand for bullying to stop because this has gone to far. We should want to go to school and not be scared to walk down the hallways and to get hurt.

My name is Megan I'm 16 almost turning 17 years old, I have been bullied since freshmen year of high school is when it really started to happen. I was getting called names on social networks and harassed to the point where I gave up trying to do anything because every time I told my school they wouldn't do anything about it but they are supposed to protected kids from being bullied. I started my 10th grade really well until this girl came into my first hour trying to fight me and assault me and the teacher saw it an didnt write her up all so the principal didnt know anything until my 8th hour came around and the same girl came into my class room where she didnt belong and came up behind me and punched me and knocked me down to the point where I blacked out! I'm still getting bullied and even stayed home 3 days to avoid it and the school expects me to tell them like they were going to do anything like they have been since I was a freshmen when they know dang well they don't crap about students being bullied which leaves students physically and emotional and mental unstable about theirselves...

My daughter is being bullied, because she has Tourrettes.  The school just keeps telling me that" we are doing our best to help her and she should accept this because she has Tourrettes".  My daughter got angry about this comment and so am I.  My belief is don't look at the outside of a person look at the inside of the person.  Some people believe that you should automatically get respect....you have to earn it and being a bully isn't going to get you the respect.

I know it is long but it speaks the truth so please read.

Journal- 3/27/13
There are so many people that don't care for people's life's or how they treat someone because they think that they might have a worse life than the person who is getting bullied but when you start getting bullied its hard to live with your life because it shows that no one cares for you or your life. Whenever someone is starting to be bullied they can ignore and hide it but after it happens more and more and more it gets worse and worse to hide and is even harder to talk about what is happening, when things like this happen people start thinking of suicidal thoughts and how to kill them selfs when it gets to hard. Studies show that when someone is bullied most of the time they might kill other people with them because they want other people to have pain as much as they had before they killed them selfs also because bullying is a serious matter and should not be joked with since most people think they are just joking around with you, even though you think they are trying to hurt you by using words like that around you. I see this happen in everyday live and I have actually had it happen to me also but I had family and friends that I knew I could go to so I could tell them that it was happening I also had journals and writings of things like this happening to me and even sometimes I feel like I hurt other people when I truly don't want to hurt them at all. Some of the time you should just keep quiet and not say anything or something worse could happen to the person that already had bullying problems or had been bullied before but got away from it because they also had someone to talk to. It was either tell someone the problem and get help with it or keep it inside but I have learned from personal experiences not to keep it inside or you could become worse than you already are sometimes when people become worse than they already are they either kill them selfs or become more depressed about them selfs that they don't know what to do because some people might feel that they don't exist or no one recognizes them for something they have done that is good for the environment or the school. Maybe they became friends with someone that never had a friend before when bullied people become friends with someone they just met or knew for along time but never told them anything. Luckily there are some good people out in the world that care for you even if they don't know you or your background, ethnicity, religion, etc. but none of that should matter to who your friends with or if they have the nicest house or the nicest car maybe even have a ton of money and go on nice vacations. When you are a friend with someone you should actually care for the person on the inside and not what you see on the outside you know the material things because one day all those material things will be gone and when they are what will happen to your friendship? Would you just kick them to the curb and find the next person who has all those material items because every person that you become friends with that has material things could just be gone in a second. You can like people for material things but you shouldn't choose your friends that way though. Friends should actually care for what you say and how your life is going things like that not when are you getting a new phone or new shoes just so I can have the old one because when ever that person gets what they want there gone out of your life forever and you ask yourself why did I ever become your friend in the first place? Not that does anything with bullying but it shows how many people actually care for you because they just want something that you have. So just think should I actually be friends with you guys? What if that person your friends with or that your dating is just friends with you because of what you have and where you go and live. When people like this start becoming my friends I just start to not care because I figure out that it wasn't me who they wanted it was the things that I have or that they wanted so when ever someone like that becomes your friend don't ignore them but go ask them straight forward and ask why are you my friend in the first place? When you never was my friend before because I want true friends not just some random person that wants to be my friend because of something that I have and might not ever give up unless it had to happen. There are so many people in life that just want you for what you have not for what you want them to care for you. There also so many people that are good at pushing people away that you truly care for and keep the ones that you don't care for close to you because you will soon learn that it is not good to push people away that you need in your life. Like for me I need to have my parents and stepparents also and so many of my friends because with out my friends I would crazy. I for sure need tianna because I care for her so much and truly love her not just because she is my girlfriend but she is also a good friend even if she wasn't mine. There is so much that I could talk about in this journal it's not even funny. Because there is a lot about bullying and life that needs to be told and when it is not told then what is going to happen? No one will care for there life's because of bullying and won't care for people in their life that they need there to fill in the of there life because it can be a hard situation to go through and you and I will have so many problems in life that you can never truly fix everything in life because no one is perfect and someone always has a flaw that they do not like, in my case it's anger issues and in others people's issues maybe its cuss words or something that they don't want to share because it is too embarrassing to say. I have had so many problems in my life and there is more to come because I am only 15 and there will be so much more. There is always problems and drama neither of them can you ever get away from, even bullying you can get away from it your self but it will never stop in the world until everyone is killed off the earth and no one is living then bullying will officially stop. There is so much stuff that you can start and join and be apart of it. Sure it will help the problem and get the word out that it is something no one should joke with, for most kids in this day and age it's more cyber bullying then physical face to face bullying. There are three groups in bullying which group one is the bully, group two is the one being bullied, group three is the standby group that just stand there and go along with it so they don't get hurt next but group four is what everyone should be which is because this group doesn't just stand there and watch it happen the person will go get an adult like a principle, teacher, someone with authority at where ever you are and will actually do something about it because even when you get someone to do something they never do anything about it because what they do is suspend them or ISS them but that does not stop them. We must have different punishments that will stop them from bullying forever not just come back to school and get suspended because it doesn't bother most people because their parents don't care what happens either with their kids when they act up in school. Bullying is a serious matter that does not need to be taken lightly in any matter because some of the time the person who is being bullied their life is endanger of ending because of one word someone could say before they got to school or something that happened at school because many people being bullied become depressed which makes it even harder to help them through it because of things like depression medicines and other things that happen with people that have depression. So I hope no one takes this as a joke because it is not a joking matter some people's lives are endanger because of being bullied or abused somewhere or somehow 

Hello I want to start by saying this Thank you for this site I wish I knew about it before. Just two weeks ago on March 15, 2013 our son just 14 years of age took his life. He never would talk to anyone about what was going on. Last year during the school year I saw some changes, so by doing some digging I found out he was being bullied. I went to the school principal, teachers and my pastor for help to try to figure out as a Mom what can I do. Because our son would not talk to anyone, he would not talk to me or his dad or older sister or older brothers. But I had teacher friends that watched out for him and let me know. This year 9th grade and I know that sometimes teens goes through some changes. Nothing was said again but I found some of my son's journals. By reading them I see he was bullied. Our son was different he did not hang out with teens of his age. He spent with older teens, he had a different out look on life. He never did any drugs. He was a good kid and very wise for 14. He loved the outdoors and the rain, sometimes he was made fun of that. But nobody knew him the true him. It's my goal, my campaign as a Mom, as a teacher aide and as someone with mind to stop the bullying. We do not want any more parents to feel this nothingness. If I can be our son's voice then I will be his voice that will speak loud. In hopes as my son put it in his journal "Change your mind change people then you change the world.""Love each other"

i was never the outcast.  I was never the typical 'victim'. I was atually the smartest, nicest, and one of the prettiest in class, and when I decided to run for Vice Mayor, everyone knew me. I also sang for a number of events in my school. At one camping event where I sang the National Anthem, on the second day, two girls were behind me. I didn't know who they were but they knew me. They started calling my name and at first I tried not to look back, but then the third time they said 'Amber, Amber, f**k you.' And at that point I broke down and I really didn't want to be noticed again. And being a 'good girl', I didn't mingle with boys from other sections in my school but some guys took advantage of it and started stalking me. At some points I would be gossiped about by some of my 'haters', saying I was 'maarte' (tagalog word for prissy) and that I was a b****, and that I only hung out with my best friends, who are smaller, less popular girls, just so I could be the best looking out of our barkada (social circle). I wasn't doing anything to them. They just enjoyed saying things about me. Sometimes boys I didn't know would look out from windows and call out my name really loud, or block me in the canteen to ask my name, and it makes me very uncomfortable. I'm starting high school soon and I seriously hope that I could start new. And that's my story.

My story began when I was little.. I was very shy so i didn't have very many friends. When I got into high school I decided to become a cheerleader which helped with my shyness but also put me in situations i wasn't comfortable with. For example all the drama I did my best to stay away from it. My junior year of high school my Poppop (Grandpa) past away.. The day he past away i was getting constantly bullied my a fellow cheerleader, she called me the devil, a brat and a b****. I did my best to keep the other cheerleaders away from my personal life with family and such. So they had no clue what i was going through. My grandpa was my best friend and always will be. Anyways i never confronted this girl and eventually it passed but it still hurt my feelings. Everyone at my school right off the bat wont like me because they think I'm mean and I'm not. No one like's to take the time to get to know another person. So then rumors start about things that definetly aren't true. And even if you think you're close to someone they will stab you in the back and talk badly about you and wont even care on how you feel. This past year has been the hardest year of my life... I have been bullied so much this year an people say things about me that aren't true. I have major anxiety so i really never want to do anything. I have a jaw problem caused by stress. And a lot of people that i thought i was close to turned on me and did me wrong. And i know haven't deserved anything bad that has happened. Im just trying to stay positive. ( This isnt my whole story and I'm sorry if it doesn't make complete sense.)