....now take a moment to imagine, seriously, ...and try to place yourself in these 2 boys lives. Place yourself being back at 11 years old, ...but now imaging living day to day being bullied and harrassed at school. You can't do anything about it. You're scared to death half if not most of the day being at school. You don't have confidence in yourself to fight back because you are being put down verbally and physically by other boys. You try to make up excuses to your parents why you don't want to go to school, that you hate it, or you feel sick. But you have to go to school eventually, and you have to face fear again.Can you not imagine the fear that these two boys must have felt at their age? Desperately feeling agony and confusion.. helplessness and loneliness..they killed themselves.
I can relate to these kids because I experienced it myself. I was never out to anyone at the time, and that made me scared and lonely. But I dealt with it day in and day out. I was about 13.
What sickens me is that this stuff can be prevented by simply controlling school bullying, including LGBT issues in social classes, and teaching kids that gay is not bad. We need better protection laws to include the safety of all kids in all schools. And honestly, this needs to be taught at an early age because kids develop the personalities they will have as adults around the time they are in middle school. When you have kids(because you have every right to, unlike me), please teach your kids about life as it should be. Tell them that gay people mean no harm to anyone and that they are good people. For the people that know me, you should know very well that I have been nothing but a good friend, a brother or a son to you. When you put politics and religion aside, all you have left is humanity, and that's something that we can all relate to and understand.
I hope you understand me now =)
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I read that article, I don't know if you get the full story down there or not, cause that incident happened here in GA, supposedly what they are playing it off as is that the kid was not gay but had an accent and the kids were taunting him because of that, and in the news paper here they got kinda graphic describing how he killed himself, they interviewed his friends and stuff, this was a real tragedy. This stuff is what really is making me want to home school my kids.
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