The Bully Project

Anonymous

These are REAL stories from YOU guys.

"So it started in 5th grade when my friend started acting weird around me. I asked her what was the matter and she said nothing. So a couple of weeks later both of my friends started acting really weird around me and would talk behind my back. So I got R (I will call one friend that and the other girl D) alone on the bus and made her tell me what was up. I immediately regretted it. R and D had made up a disease about me. They called it fuzzfaria (my nickname being fuzz) They said it was a disease where you started to act like a bitch, hog things, and start to turn ugly and gross.

D apologized and I forgave her, but R was a different story. She never did stop and still hasn't for 2 years.She would call me an attention whore and would spit on me on the bus. She called me a faggot and an ugly slut, and would punch me. I got sick of it so I told a teacher, but that didn't help any. The teacher said I was tough enough to get over it. She said that R was just having issues or something or maybe she was mad at something. I let it go, but it never stopped.

That summer at the end of fifth grade I started thinking about suicide. R wouldn't stop sending me messages that were rude and hurtful. I told her to go away and quit picking on people because it would never get her anywhere but she just called me a coward. I got help at the end of that summer from my new/old friend, and was doing really good until the middle of the year. It was volleyball season my FAVORITE time of the year. I had some girls on my team tell me I was a stupid retard that wasn't good enough for them. One even told me I wasn't living up to my life's expectations. That I was a failure. A mistake. I wasn't wanted. I told the coach, she did almost nothing. So I made it through most of the school year laying low. That was until a boy I had a crush on asked me out. So being the idiot I am I said yes. Turns out he became my next bully. Calling me a bitch, whore, slut, retard, idiot, selfish gay wad, and many more things. I have completely lost respect for all boys because of him. I made it through that, but didn't last long. Everything I had been told flooded my memory. I was depressed for weeks, month, and still am.

I started cutting and my best friend found out. She made me stop, and I'm thankful for her because she did. I still hate myself. The way I look, the scars on my legs, my weight, my height, my hair, my eyes. I just hated/hate myself. People tell me I'm gorgeous, but I don't see it. My opinion on bullying is that it is stupid and pointless. The only thing that bullying will accomplish is killing people, slowly inside and out."

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