So, so, so incredible sad. These stories really get to me. I was bullied as a kid for being Asian (small eyes, ching chong ching, Bruce Lee’s daughter, Chung Li, people shoving or hitting me and yelling that I was about to practice my karate on them, etcerera) for looking like a boy (my mother had all my hair cut off right before I started junior high because she thought it looked sophisticated, but I was underdeveloped and teachers, students and even the janitor could not tell. I was even called sir at one point), for my skin ( I had rosacea which turned even redder when I was embarrassed, and people loved to tease me just to see my face react, I was jumped, punched repeatedly, strangled and had staples shot at me from a stapler, all from different people at different times, for no reason at all. Only one person came o my rescue when I got jumped in art class. He pulled the guy off of me. Believe me, I did not ask for any of this. I was the shyest kid in school. It made it easy for people to pick on me. It’s bad. Really bad. Because you’re so young and your whole world is so small and it’s very hard to see the future. You really feel as though this is what the rest of your life will be like. I used to cry every night and never told anyone. After two years of torment from one of my bullies, I told a counselor and she brought me face to face with him, and his teasing stopped. EVerything else didn’t. Look at these boys. Look at their faces. Imagine, just imagine, what’ it’s like to feel as though death is the only answer instead of asking for help. I’m going through a VERY rough time right now, so these stories hit me particularly hard, but I have friends and family and a psychiatrist to help pull me through. It still feels like it’s not enough, but we’re all trying to work out what the problem is. The George Washington Bridge is a few blocks from me, where the Rutgers student jumped. So sad. So very sad.
this makes me want to cry. :’( Some people in this world are so cruel, i just don’t understand it.
An eighth grader in the Houston area, Asher Brown, has committed suicide after being relentlessly bullied at school for being gay.
A US college student committed suicide the day after authorities say two fellow students surreptitiously recorded him having sex with a man in his dorm room and broadcast it over the internet. Tyler Clementi of New Jersey jumped off the George Washington Bridge, a lawyer for his family said. His body hasn’t been recovered.
Seth, a student at Jacobsen Middle School in Tehachapi, Calif., was found unconscious and not breathing on Sept. 19 after he apparently tried to hang himself from a tree in his backyard, according to a police report obtained by The Bakersfield Californian. Friends said that Seth had been picked on for years because he was gay. He later passed away.
This has to stop.
High school sucks, imagine adding to the hell that is adolescence and trying to fit in with the fact that you happen to be attracted to people of the same sex.
In the case of the Rutgers student, it doesn’t even end after high school.
Anyone going through this needs a support system, they need someone they can turn to before they internalize it and wind up doing the unthinkable.
People like Dan Savage are doing great things to help these kids, but it’s only a start and they need all the help they can get.
(Source: magikspell)
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