Has anything like this ever happened to you in high school?

um...yeah. but is this even a question? things like that happen to everyone in high school.

~But that's just me~

the whole story reminds me of my roommate in college, who was date raped in high school. she basically became very shy, suicidal, and zipped her lips (at least about the actual rape and source of all her sadness) for about four years. thank god she eventually got some help and seemed to improve.

This happened to me for four years. All throughout middle school and my freshman year in high school I was picked on and beaten up. I would come home with bruises almost every day. I am glad that I transferred schools or else I would still be an emotional wreck.

I think that not everybody but at least 75% of people have been bullied during school days. I was bullied by peers since I was 5 at kindergarden. It's really terrible to be the target. That marks you for life. And I don't understand why some people do that. To mock or demonstrate power over others is just part of the human condition. That's the only answer I found. Some people even hate you just because you exist. The more shy or weak you are the more you are bullied, and it becomes a circle. Sadly, the target suffers so much and as I said this marks you forever. Most of the time the bullies do not realise how cruel they are and how bad they hurt other people. I finished high school and I am adult already but I will never forget the pain I went through my childhood and teenage years that are supposed to be the best part of your life.

I knew Someone who was ostracized back in Middle School. It was pretty sad since he always got the *beep* end of the stick.

Some people count sheep. Doesn't work with AlwaysCool, just gets him excited.

Yes, something fairly similar to this has happened to me. In 9th grade I was physically harassed and afraid to speak out until my best friend told me that if I didn't, he would. The guy that harassed me had done it twice, after I'd told him no, in the same time frame, so this was apparently something serious. So I told a teacher close to me. You have to understand, my class was very tight-knit - a magnet program class - so everyone knew everything that went on. He was promptly questioned and files were filled out on him, as well as police reports, and he was expelled from school for level four infraction.

Everyone ostracized me after this, even though I felt like I'd done the right thing. The only people that supported me were my family, my best friend, and several of my upperclassmen friends. All of the people in my class completely began to hate me. I got hate mail daily, I was shoved by in the hallway, I got mean myspace messages, threatening phone calls, the works. People verbally said things to my face or would sit right near me and talk about me 'behind my back'. The guy that had harassed me had been the "ladies man", so almost all of these people were girls, who can absolutely be the worst. It was the most painful experience I've ever been through in my life. I would come home after school every day crying, and though I had a few friends to reassure me that I'd done the right thing, I often questioned myself. I now realize I should never have questioned myself - if you're violated against your will, you have the right and the obligation to speak up for yourself.

Things have ended patching themselves up, now, some time later, and now I realize who my true friends are. That was the one benefit of this, besides learning to defend myself - I weeded out the fakes, backstabbers, and liars. Now my friends are so unbelievably loyal that things couldn't be better.

I've also come to realize that the RIGHT THING TO DO IS MOST OFTEN THE HARD THING TO DO! Never forget that. It's helped me tremendously all this time. :)

That's my story, though it's not as bad as SPEAK, I guess.

I would go weeks without talking at school between 7 and 10th grade. My junior and senior year were a tad easier, but not by much. Kids were awful.

i was an army brat, very introverted because of it so i transferred to my hometown as a freshman and lived with my grandparents so i could actually go to the same school for more than one yr. all went well till the end of my sophomore yr. i came to school one day and all my friends had turned their backs on me. apparently a girl who had hated me since we were in kindergarten told the other girls i had done something to her at a party. it didnt matter that we were out of town at the time and i wasnt even at the party, it made for good drama so literally for the next 3 years, none of the girls in my class would talk to me. 10 yrs after graduation, i stopped into town to see my grandma,and i ran into one of the nasty bitches, and she hugged me and asked if i was going to come out to her house that night for a get-together shed planned as a preparty for the alumni dance. i smiled and said, 'gee i dont know. i mean if you guys didnt like me back then you sure as hell arent going to like me now.' life is good lol

RAY!! ya take that diaper off yer head and ya put it back onto yer sister!