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Alright. The point of this topic is to ask you guys... Have you ever been teased for something you like? Let's say... an animal, a movie, types of music, etc.?

I get teased constantly at my school (since it's a private school there's no physical bullying, but PLENTY of mental and cyber bullying) for loving wolves. I don't broadcast it to the world though. It's not like I say it every five minutes. "Oh I love wolves, oh did you know wolves..., oh do you like wolves?" NO. I simply used to draw wolves/dogs in school whenever I'd get bored. I would never show it to anyone, just draw it and put it in my folder when I was done. That's it. But soon I guess someone was looking at my drawings and word got out that I liked wolves. (Ever since then, I've had to STOP drawing, something I LOVE TO DEATH, JUST BECAUSE of the teasing. It's gotten so bad I can't even do what I like anymore. It's almost like I'm being forced to stop)

Soon someone in my school found out my youtube account and looked at my videos. Of course, on youtube I make AMVs (Animated Music Videos) using Balto, Spirit, Daybreakers, Lightning Theif, etc. Movies I like. As soon as they saw that, they figured, "Oh let's tease her because she's the quiet one."

In my school I am known as "the quiet one". I don't talk much, except to my best friend. The reason? I don't want to get in trouble in class. That's why. The only person I talk excessively to is/are my best/really close friends. And I'm kinda picky as to who my best friends are. They have to like me for me, not just my "popularity" or "social status" which is pretty low anyway. But I guess since I'm the "quiet one" people decided they wanted to pick on me. As soon as they found out about my youtube videos, that's when the teasing started.

First, some people from my school (and I know it was them because they had videos of themselves) started commenting on my page going "french kisses", "wolves", "I love you", etc. just to annoy me. I ignored them. It started getting worse. They (and all their subs who backed them up even though they had NO IDEA WHO I WAS) started calling me bad words, bad names (which I cannot say on here because they're THAT bad), and everything else you can imagine. Then not long after that, another group of kids (who weren't wimps and didn't cyber bully) started saying in homeroom (really loud; they made it audible to ME) "Wolves, Balto, Spirit, Horses, Hunterthewolf01 (my username on youtube)"

Then about two months later, some of the friends of the main one who cyber bullied me and the main one ended up sitting smack behind me during a school show. They started poking me (so hard/bad I ended up getting bruises). I ignored them at first, but it began to hurt so much I eventually turned around and almost yelled, "WHAT?" They're like "oh he needs to tell you something, he needs to tell you something" pointing to one of their friends. I rolled my eyes and looked foward again but THEY KEPT POKING ME THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE SHOW LONG.

By now, I'm fed up. Why do they do this to me? Why ONLY me? What did I ever do to them to deserve this? Nothing. It makes me sick and tired. I can't tell the teachers because if I do that'll only make me a "snitch" and will make it twice as bad. I can't make it stop. I ignore them and sometimes try to make comebacks and it's still not enough.

I don't know WHAT TO DO. It's made me feel like I have no reason to stay living like this. I've actually become so depressed about it I cried for three hours. I never did anything wrong. Why is it fair that they tease and bully me when I do nothing wrong? Am I that much of a loser that they have to pick on me like they're better than me? Am I that low on the "popularity scale" that they can bother me and make me depressed as much as they feel like? I don't know. It doesn't seem fair.

By now, I have just decided to deal with this pain and hope that by the time I graduate next year (I start 8th grade in August) I'll be rid of them for good and never have to deal with them again. That's really all I can do.

Has this ever happened to you?

I'm so sorry to hear that. That is just god awful that people would do that to somebody. Everybody is teased but that is taking it to an extreme. We've all been teased in life, and we've all been the teaser. But this is just terrible. I feel so bad for you. I too am really quiet haven't been picked on much though. Most people just ignored me and I liked it that way. Lurking in the shadows. I had a couple of friends and that was it. And I had no problem with that. I guess it helps that my best friend who I've know since like the 1st grade has kinda gon askew and hasn't turned out to be the greatest person in the world. It helps to have a friend who will stick up for you and is kinda an intimidation factor.

I hope they stop doing all of that garbage to you. I really do, bullying isn't right. It is just a form of weakness. This might sound a bit cliche but they are just jealous of you and want to belittle you to make themselves feal better. One day you'll be their boss and then who'll be laughing now.

Thanks, Charlie. Hearing that makes me feel a bit better. Yeah, I too used to have an awesome best friend since Prek 4, but they turned out to be a bad friend. On the other hand though, I also met another friend in third grade and we're still best friends. We don't care what people think of us, we care about personalities. I guess that's why I'm so picky making best friends. I asked my 'rents one time if they thought I trusted people too much or if I didn't trust people very much.

They replied, "Well you're kinda special. You tend to trust everyone has a heart, that everyone is nice. You tend to trust in people too much that they'll always be nice. But when it comes to your friends, it takes a lot for someone to become that, to gain your trust.

I can relate. I spent my whole school life being bullied. (One of the reasons I dropped out. EDIT Now home-schooled.) I've been called at least every name in the book. I too have been made fun of for drawing dogs in class. (Helped me cope.) I was known as: Balto freak and dog freak. But that was only minor. I had two other things to deal with.




I'm your boss. Listen to me or else.
My own peers of my own age were pushing me around. I was hated to the point where everyone took advantage of me and started telling me what to do. Say I was trying to get involved into a conversation they would swear at me. (Was asked to remove my spoiler tag.) Or they would tell me to get away from them. Say I'm sitting somewhere and someone else comes up. They say, "I don't want you near me, move." I would hesitate and stand my ground, but like always I ended up being the loser and moved. But then they would say," Move further away, I don't want you near me." I would just move. Standing my ground always led to verbal fights. You think the teachers are ever around to see or hear any of this? No. If you do tell a teacher they say,"I can't do anything because I didn't see it." Then I'm always called a snitch by my peers for telling on someone. Teachers these days are hopeless...I believe it's their responsibility to make sure that stuff like this doesn't happen. And this is a fact. I've heard it from more than ONE teacher. "We're not baby sitters." It might not be their job, but they're taking that statement waaaaay too far...Like I said, they're not even watching 90% of the time. When they do catch something they don't take care of it in an appropriate way. They just tell them to stop or send them to the office. (Rarely often does the office part happen where I went to school.) This can also apply to the bus. I was not allowed to talk to anyone. Even the younger grades said that to me. Even if someone asked me something I would be told to shut up by some other random person. I was also not allowed to look anywhere but out the window. It's safe for me to say I was the omega (As I always considered myself in a school setting.) of the school. I was always quickly put back into my rank by those high and mighty alphas. I just feel like categorizing by wolf speak here. lol

Fake friends
I was always that person who sat alone or as far away from my peers as possible to avoid conflict. School was torture to me. I hatted going, I hatted being there. It was every pain staking second I was bullied for the most innocent of things. In all of this I never had any friends to help me. In fact when I did have a friend they turned on me with a blink of an eye. Like in the 8th grade. I thought I had a good friend. We always ate lunch together, did our work together. But during the last part of the year I learned she was fake. One of my many enemies was using her to keep me away from her. She then stopped hanging around with me and with the one who used her. It hurt me badly. I thought I had someone who cared about me, and someone who would stand up for me like she did at times... When in fact she hated me. With the others they just faded away. They too started telling me what do do. I often wonder what I ever did to deserve any of this...

Minor things
Of course there was always that minor case of having things thrown at me like: Spit wads, paper, erasers, SHARPENED pencils. Yes, sharpened. Glad they always missed. I was slapped once, and one time I ended up being attacked by desks in biology class. They were being shoved at me n' stuff. Oh man did that hurt. Oh yeah, I also always had my books shoved on the ground only making me more vulnerable for an attack down there on the floor. Always did I move quickly.




Thanks to them I ended up with depression. I was for awhile seeing a councilor, but sadly she moved.( this was in the 5th grade.) I was transferred to another councilor in the building, but she got sick of hearing of my problems with school. She said to me I was impossible to work with. My Mom then removed me from that program. She didn't want to risk having that happening again.

But now that I'm free from all of that, I can now start to make a full recovery.But never will any of this pain truly ever go away.

Oh my gods, I feel so bad for you! You're situation sounds ten times worse than mine.... Why are people so cruel? It seems that the innocent ones are always the ones who get beat up in the end. I too became very depressed and got sent to a phycologist. I'm still seeing him every now and then... But for your couciler to tell you she didn't want to hear your problems anymore? Isn't that her JOB?? :/

That councilor was just full of it.

I feal so bad for the both of you. It is one thing to be teased, we've all been teased and we've all teased somebody. My parents call me Charlie every now and then but that's about it.

It is one thing to be teased, there is nothing wrong with teasing when it's all for fun. It's another to be bullied, that is plain wrong. I don't care who you are. Nobody should ever suffer through bullying of any kind physical or mentally. It is just wrong. And those bullies should be ashamed of themselves. Just the fact that the get entertainment at the expence of others is just plain wrong.

To all of those despicable bullie out there: You are the real coward. Trying to look better than somebody by bullying them. It is one thing if you're smarter, more athletic, better looking, etc... But to make yourself better by trying to make somebody feal like crap. If you think you are stronger because you are the one doing the bullying, you couldn't be any more wrong. All you are doing is having somebody suffer and nobody deserves that. You are the weaker one for not being the one you are.

God bless you both for what you love. If you need anything I'm here for you guys.

awww mighty, you could be my sister D:
I got often bully when I was in the elementary school, so, when I was up from 7-10 years old, I don't know why some of my classmates didn't like me, I've never done something to make them hate me, really, I still wonder why...well, there was this boy, he lived near me and he was my worst enemy, he always picked on me, with the excuse that my dogs are ugly and that they drool a lot, in that occasion I've punched him on his face and broke his nose and when he went to the teacher to cry, the people around me helped me because he wasn't like that only with me. Later on my mother taught me to attack with words than with the violence and so I did, everytime he tried to make fun of me because of my dogs or for other reason, I was always ready to answer him "in rhyme" like it's said and so, he soon lost interest on me and picked on other guys, he was brave only with his friends around but when we were alone, he wanted to appear like a friend but meh, I learnt my lessons.

About fake friends? hmm, that's the thing that ruined me and the reason of why I don't really like people, exept if I see that they have my same interests and that, after some time, they aren't acting a friendhip. It all started, (again) in elementary school, me and this girl loved dogs and loved a lot of things we had in common, we were close to wear the same clothes xD I slept a lot in her house and she in mine, every Saturday we met of at my home or at hers to play or to watch some cartoons. But then, the last year of elementary school she made a birthday party and didn't call me. I wanted to know why but she didn't answer me and ignored me all the time...I phoned to a friend, I knew her since we were baby and I asked her what happened at that party. She told me that the girl didn't want me because I've done her a very bad thing but she didn't what to tell to the party mates what was that bad thing. I decided to face that girl and she told me that she didn't want to be my friend anymore because I started to play with another girl than her (the other girl is the one that told me about the party) and I was really shocked, I didn't though she could be so possesive, she told me that I had to be only friend with her, if not goodbye. This was just an exaple but I coul stay her to tell many and many similar events with people I thought friends...

First of all, I can already tell by the first two sentences of your post that you didn't even read the first paragraph of my story. I said in the FOURTH sentence of my story that I didn't go around saying, "I love wolves, I love wolves, etc." If you don't even READ all of the post, how in the hell do you expect to get a NICE response from others???

So a few lessons for you here:

1) Actually READ peoples' posts
2) THINK before you post advice
3) Never say someone did something without making SURE they actually did it
4) Never go against someone or give them advice without knowing the full story

That's all I have to say.

yeah, i get teased. but not about Balto or wolves because nobody knows that i like them, but i am teased about my youtube account and sometimes they will poke me HARD on my arm. Or they will call my name over and over. I am also teased about the fact that i do not like Abracrombie (sc?) i USED to get teased about my nose. if you have seen my picture on the topic called "do you have pictures of yourself?" i have a small dot on my nose. that has been there since birth but they would tease be by saying "you have a mole on your face!" when in fact it is not too noticeable and looks more like a dark brown freckle. i also used to be teased on my weight but i've lost weight since then so they can not make fun of me for that anymore. Sometimes, they would not talk to me or even look at me and not tell me why. Iv'e had rumors spread saying that i like boys when i really don't ( it doesn't sound bad, but when one of them is your friend and then he avoids you it hurts)

i just don't understand why kids have to be so mean. And it's not like IM mean, i'm actually very funny and nice. But for some reason they don't like me. i personally think it's because they asked me to be their friend but only if i left my best friend ever and i turned them down because i LOVES my best friend. I used to have 2 best friends but now i have one. My only one left is Hunter ( the wolf) but the other one left us because she wanted to be popular. i just want to understand why it is that they can't like us for, us.

Does anyone else feel the same way?

God, how much I love this topic xD Even if it's sad to hear your stories...


I've been teased/bullied. And I still am. And I don't even know for what. Sometimes I think that it's for weight, sometimes I think that it's for my talkativeness, personality (I'm really talkative with my best friends. Sometimes we even go laughing really loudly xD) ...Other than that, I don't know...

My "main bullies" are 8th graders ( I'm a 6th grader) . Girls are okay, even if I still see some of them pointing at me or looking at me and whispering something to eachother...But that isn't a big problem. The main problem are boys. They always tend to tease me, and call my name. If I sit somewhere in...well, for example, in a some show in school, and they're sitting behind me, I can almost always hear some bad words about my looks. I can't even see what's so wrong about me...
One of the boys lives close to me, and when he needs to go to a bus stop or whatever, he always need to walk past my house. I'm afraid to be outside at that moment, cause I would always get teased.

But the good thing is... They never actually touch me. You know, like, poke or something like that. They only "attack with words"...

I have been bullied by the 10th graders at the first part of school year. You know...I actually thought " Wow...But they're basically adults...Mature persons...How can they tease the younger ones? Even care enough about them? They should have much more interesting things to do..."
They kept on calling my name, sometimes poking me... But, thank God, now it ended. They just...Stopped doing that. Yeah, they did it so suddenly...Maybe they got more mature... Actually, now I even LIKE them. xDD

Actually, I don't take those too seriously, as long as they DON'T TOUCH ME. If the bullies are older teens, I just walk past them and ignore. If they're my classmates, I send them a sarcastic answer back. For example: Few boys and few girls always tend to pair me with one boy. The boys are friends with him, and quite a good friends with him, so I always tend to say that they're gays or something like that. So, with classmates it's as easy as that.


But, I'm happy. I have known one 12th grader girl for quite a 3 years. She became my close friend, and I dearly love her. Everyone in school respects her. When I'm with her, nobody bullies me or says anything to me. I know, you'll say that it isn't good to " hide under someones shadow", but I just love her. She's been the most loyal friend of mine, even if we don't talk much. I don't know if I ever talked with her normally xDD But she's just always kind, friendly to me, and I don't know if I'll ever have a better friend xDD

Well, for my sadness, she has finished school now. So, I'm really depressed now xDD






My classmates and other people never tease me for my love to draw wolves and lions. No, they LIKE my drawings, and, whenever there's an art project, no matter if it's with animals or not, they always basically BEG me to help them ( yeah, I'm good at Art xDD) . I love art projects, but I think that I'll soon become tired of them because of classmates xDDD

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So, that's basically it. When someones teasing you, learn to ignore. I know, it hurts, and you might even be afraid to go past those bullies...But, try to avoid them, don't go near them. Just never go like a tiny little kiddo. Go with your head held up, proudly, bravely. Show them that it isn't so easy to destroy you....I'm even used to laugh from some comments those bullies send xDD
Well, when it comes to physical bullying, I can't help you much, except for suggesting you to tell your teacher, parents or even police.... But if it's just words...Learn to ignore, and be strong: they'll see that you aren't the one that can be destroyed easily, and they'll leave you alone.

Thanks for the advice GOTW, but I've been ignoring them for a year now. They just don't stop... And I was also bullied by the 8th graders! But luckily they're gone now and we're becoming the new 8th graders/. But anyways, I've decided that if they bother me next year I'm gonna snap at them. I've had enough of their "antics" and games. I've ignored them as long as I can and it isn't working. Next time, I won't go easy on them. I'm going to show them I can't be teased so easily.

You're welcome. Just tried to help . I didn't say that it's going to end the very same minute you start ignoring them. It takes time... But they will mature! I hope...
You're going to...Tell someone or " attack" them yourself? Whatever you may do, I hope it'll work... I'm absolutely with you here Do what feels best to you, and I hope to hear better news soon xDD