It didn't get better for this young man
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His name was Jamey and he took his own life on Monday after years of bullying.
His mother said after he started questioning his sexuality the bullying and harrsment started. He started seeing a therapist.
While his parents thought he was fine, he was pouring out is pain on verious blogs online:
"No one in my school cares about preventing suicide, while you’re the ones calling me [gay slur] and tearing me down,” he wrote on Sept. 8. He said the next day: “I always say how bullied I am, but no one listens. ... What do I have to do so people will listen to me?”
My heart breaks just reading this sentence. I was bullied at school also... not for being gay... i just didn't look like the others,... I was short with lots of freckles and wore glasses. It went on until i finally snapped and punched someone. Not a recourse I recommend to everyone but it did stop. But not everyone is capable of doing that and instead internalize the pain and harm themselves.
The above It Gets Better video was made in May, after he came out to his friends as bi-sexual. He recieved a LOT of online support.
But as usual, there are always assholes out there waiting to pick on the vulnerable:
“JAMIE IS STUPID, GAY, FAT ANND UGLY. HE MUST DIE!” an anonymous commenter said on Formspring. “I wouldn't care if you died. No one would. So just do it :) It would make everyone WAY more happier!” said another.
How that could not fail to impact a growing teenager who is already suffering from emotional distress ...... those cowards did their bullying from behind a computer screen with no name.
People, and especially other young kids, either don't realize how their words can hurt or they don't care. Many of them don't see that their behavior impacts their victim. Some just don't care at all.
Another beautiful young life lost to cruel and cowardly bullying. Jamey was just 14.
Wherever you are Jamey, I hope that you are getting the peace that you didn't get here.