A thirteen year old girl
from
Ireland
committed suicide a few months
ago.
She
was bullied on ask.fm. In English today we were talking about
media. The topic of social network sites came up. Someone
mentioned ask.fm and we all remembered the 13 year old girl.
While the teacher was getting some slide show ready, me and 2
other people talked about the girl. This is how our conversation
went...
Girl: She
could have just deleted the messages she got. She didn't need
to kill herself over it.
Boy: It was too late by then.
It was probably stuck in her head.
Girl: Yeah,
but it was kind of a stupid thing to do.
Boy: But she
was only thirteen. She might have panicked or
something.
Girl: Exactly. She was
thirteen. She can't be suicidal at thirteen.
Boy: Well,
she was.
Girl: Like, how bad could the things that people were
saying be? That couldn't be bad enough that you'd want to
kill
yourself?
To which, I replied with....
"It's weird
that you should think that. When I was ten you
started bullying me. When I was twelve you spread it all over
facebook. When I was thirteen, it got so bad that
I tried committing suicide many times. It
didn't work, and the bullying died down for a bit. The
bullying restarted again this year. This time it's
all over facebook and ask.fm. Less than a week ago I attempted
suicide again because of you. And now you're sitting
here, telling me that a thirteen year old girl cannot be suicidal
at such a young age, when you were the reason I was suicidal at
eleven.How can you sit there talking about this when you
are the cause of so much pain?"
The boy in the conversation was the girls boyfriend and hedumped
her - he had no idea she did this to me.
That boy told me I was beautiful and that his girlfriend - ex
girlfriend - was jealous.
Today, I was braver than ever before. I overcame a big fear of
mine - I stood up to my bully.
I guess the bullying won't stop, but I'm not going to
take it anymore.
That was very brave off and I went through sorta the same thing, So that was big of you us wittyers are proud off you :3 <3