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Bullying... a Problem, or an Over exaggeration?

Bullying...a Problem, or an Over exaggeration?



Bullying is a heavy subject for a lot of people. It seems to be a subject that is widely spoken about in today's schools, and has thought to become much worse since the age of social media, where people can send those attacks with you. The common complaint from a lot of people, that I have personally heard, even parents, and kids my own age who grew up without Iphones and overwhelming social media's, is "Why can't they just NOT go online?" "why can't they just NOT read what people are posting about them?"


Both my older sister and I were bullied. For no apparent reason. When I was in elementary school, there was no social media, or connection allowed to the internet, but my house was right around the corner from my school; and my bullies knew that, and made my place of living a target for attacks. Elementary school, for me, was a time that was unfair, and unjust. I remember running for school president, and my sister making me cool presidential ad posters that had Arnold Schwarzenegger's face from the Terminator movies that said: Vote for me if you want to live! (lol) At the final voting, my entire class, (after ripping all my presidential ads down and spitting on them) purposely voted for the girl that was running against me, and then at lunch, threw my presidential ad's at my face, and laughed at me while calling me a loser.


I held back every tear, until I found my way to the principals office, and began to sob. The administrators tried to ask me what's wrong; in between sobs I told them what happened...and how it had been going on for a while. They laughed in my face, and kicked me out of the office for being ridiculous. They told me to not cry in front of them, and they will soon stop. I returned to class, and acted as if nothing had happened.


My bullying hadn't become 'serious' until a couple of boys threatened to rape me and throw my body in the desert. It was traumatizing to hear, only because at the time, I was being sexually abused by a family friend and feared the worst. I told on the boys, and then the principal had to intervene because it was a 'validated threat.' One of the boys who said it, had apologized; I am friends with to this day...the others had disappeared since elementary school ended.


I wasn't the only one who got bullied. My sister was bullied physically. By the people whom she called her peers. She was disliked because she had light skin, green and was hispanic. My sister is absolutely gorgeous...so I didn't understand why? Her bullying didn't cease until 8th grade when a girl who's boyfriend had broken up with her, to make a pass at my sister, became jealous. So jealous in fact, that she told one of the biggest girls in school that my sister had called her mom a whore. The girl tried to attack my sister. Thankfully my sister had activated her hidden fighting ability, and won the fight.


The day after the fight, at my school, everyone's younger siblings of the people in middle school were informed of my sisters strength. She became feared. And everyone wanted to see if I had the same strength as well. I didn't believe in violence...until a girl sitting next to me told me my mom was a prostitute. I punched her in the stomach and warned her to never talk about my mother again. She feared me after that day.


In high school, me and my sister were feared, for no valid reason. People had hung onto the facts of elementary school and middle school, and most likely obscured them a bit. After my sister graduated high school, she got signed with a modeling company, and started doing shoots and small commercials. She never looked better! I was proud of her. Until even out of her adolesence, pictures, and long dissertations about my sister being a whore, and a liar, and a bitch popped up on a site called THE DIRTY. If anyone knows of that site, you know how horrible it can get. We knew it wasn't true. But people kept posting, and spamming THE DIRTY with post after post about my sister. It was elementary school on crack!


It became worse when our house and cars started getting egged and my sister and I recieved disturbing voice messages from blocked numbers at 4 o'clock in the morning. We both decided to disappear from all forms of social media, and change our numbers.


Currently, I can say that my sister and I are NOT victims of bullying. And I look down on bullying. It is a horrible thing to do to someone. People say that to simply avoid being bullied on social media, you just have to step away from your computer. But unfortunately, you can't step out of life. Technology can be avoided, but then what? what if you want to go out to the mall, and an attacker sees you...are you suppose to just not go out. No. Absolutely not. I grew up in a time that went from no social media to heavy social media. I had a hand in each world. And no matter the form of bullying, it still impacts you just as much. If you see someone being bullied, stand up, and speak the fuck out. No one deserves to be treated like that. And the people who are bullying, need major psychological help.




Bullying... a Problem, or an Over exaggeration?
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