Beat bullying

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00:00Since school onwards, there's only been one particular person that I've really feared

00:14all my life, and that is my father, because I've had, basically he's always thought

00:23of my sister as a better person than me, I think, he's his favourite.

00:28If he would throw something at me, or he would hit me, or he would verbally call me names,

00:33he would always try and beat me down.

00:36From being beaten up from my father, I'd go to school and I'd be verbally bullied in school,

00:40picked on because I was a fat kid.

00:42I always get bullied wherever I go, I've changed my person so many times, I've changed my personality,

00:49I've changed the way I looked, I've changed the way my physical appearance is, so many

00:54times, just to try and fit in, and I've got to a point where I've just had enough.

01:03It's like, sometimes I think maybe I should be the bully and bully them back, just so

01:09they know what it feels like to be in my shoes.

01:14Mental bullying, name calling, and in some occasions where they will hit you, push you.

01:22Physically, I have many, many bruises and scratches to prove this, and emotionally it

01:31makes me sad.

01:34They said bad words to me, like stupid, midget, and sometimes the F word.

01:42I used to play jokes, practical jokes, you know, little stuff like, I don't know, chew

01:48a bit of paper up and shoot it through a hollow pen, shoot it at the back of the heads

01:51and stuff.

01:52Run around with a fire extinguisher and squirt the fire extinguisher all over them in school,

01:58used to trip them over and stuff.

02:01Swearing and stuff, and bringing them down, you know, like, embarrassing them in front

02:08of everybody.

02:09Saying, you know, you're so stupid, or things like, things like making them feel bad about

02:17themselves.

02:21There's always a story behind the bullies.

02:24Like, maybe their house is, they just want to take out their anger in front of somebody,

02:29or want to look cool.

02:31Yeah.

02:32I don't know, it's just like, bullying is bad.

02:35How would they feel if somebody bullied them?

02:39It's wrong.

02:40I mean, why would they do that?

02:46I see the people in my class who think that they're superior, even though they're not.

02:52And some of the seniors who like to make fun of the smaller people.

02:59They're big, and they're sometimes from the other building.

03:07Back in the day, I used to get a rush out of here, you know, I used to go out clubbing

03:11just to get into fights, just to beat people up.

03:14In grade six, when I was getting bullied by a rusher, he will come, and he will hit you,

03:27and he will think it's a joke.

03:31It's funny that you're getting hit.

03:37He thinks you like it.

03:38Problem.

03:40In our bus, there used to be a girl, she was bullied a lot.

03:45They used to like, get pencils and play like, drums on her head, and then, you know, push

03:50around.

03:52Sometimes people are making fun of me and my friends just because we're different nationality.

04:00It's not a good feeling, it's like, what type of human will do this?

04:04They will come and make fun of my size.

04:07I'm too small for my age.

04:09I'm fat.

04:10It hurts, but over the time of the two terms, I got used to it.

04:18Words don't affect me anymore.

04:22I was just upset that they kept on calling me midget.

04:29My mother and my girlfriends have been there through the thick of it.

04:33They've been there when I've been on top of the world.

04:36They've been there when I've hit rock bottom.

04:42So I wanted to make, I wanted to be the best person that I could be for the period of time

04:50with my mother, whether it's tomorrow, whether it's 15 years, whether it's 50 years down

04:55the line.

04:56I wanted to be the best.

04:58I wanted my mother to be proud of me.

05:00Many of my friends supported me in this.

05:03It was one of the ways that I got through the bullying.

05:06Sometimes when I was not able to, they would call a teacher and then the bullies would

05:12just run away.

05:14I asked the teacher to tell them not to say those bad words.

05:22Thank you for supporting and helping me.

05:26If you don't learn to stand up and stick your head up high, you're going to be bullied

05:37all the time.

05:38You need to stand up and say, you know something, this is who I am, you don't like it, tough.

05:46If you're that low of a person, go away.

05:49I do not want to speak to you.

05:52I do not want to talk to you.

05:54Just get out of my life.

05:56Just a little bit of guts to stand up and say, I am who I am.

06:00The only reason why they bully you is because they've been bullied and they are scared of

06:05you.

06:07That's the major one.

06:08They bully you because they're scared and they envy and they're jealous of you.

06:13Stay strong because there's a lot of people who might experience the same thing and maybe

06:19they're staying strong too.

06:21And you know, a lot of people who love you.

06:25They should just fight, keep fighting.

06:40I could say that they should stop bullying people just because they're younger than them.

06:50Because if they don't, maybe they'll get expelled or something like that.

06:56What you dish out will come back to you ten times more, whether it's tomorrow, twenty

07:04years, it'll come back to you and it'll be twice as nasty as you dished out.

07:09I've learned that the hard way.

07:11It's really not worth that little enjoyment to see someone cry in a corner or not wanting

07:20to go to school or putting makeup on, trying to make themselves prettier because you call

07:26them ugly all the time.

07:29You can't play with someone's emotions like that.

07:32It's not right.

07:33You know, they should be ashamed of themselves or something.

07:38Yeah.

07:39And that, you know, they shouldn't be like, proud of themselves or like, not punished.

07:49Because what they did was like, bad.

07:57They should teach them that it's wrong and that they should stop because maybe they'll

08:02just keep doing it all the time to others.

08:06Bullying must stop once and for all.

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