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

Well you bring back memories from my school days, and I mean all the way from elementary school to perhaps the year before last in high school (things improved quite a bit in the least year)

I am talking a full 11 years here, from 6 to 17!

I spent the biggest part of those years on my own (when the bullies found someone else to have their "fun" with, I guess)

But, over time I believe I have managed to become less introverted and made up with many of the people who gave me a hard time in school - primarily with those who just tagged along with the bullies just to be more popular, I guess (thankfully, there was barely any physical abuse involved, it was mostly mental bullying) - but I also did find that certain people don't really change from their school ways.

Who knows, maybe me getting better off in the end has to do with making steady friends from college onwards and also with counselling - but what I would say to any kid going through a hard time in school is: don't worry about what they say or do to you (provided it is not physical attacks), most kids will always look for someone "different" or "weak" to pick on, just to boost their own self-confidence - but don't thinkyou are the only one it happens to. All you have to do is show them you are not bothered and they will get bored eventually. Don't run crying to a teacher, and don't show the bullies you are affected, as that will only make things worse. Showing them you are a strong individual and not giving up is the best way to get through the hard times, from my own personal experience.

-Goodnight, mother of six!
-Goodnight, father of two!

Well that happened to me when I was in my 8th grade (now I'm in 11th grade). Basically I'm a loner but it's really tough for me to be without friends at all so that was hard.
The story is pretty simple. Me and my 3 friends argued in the beginning of that year and after that quarrel me and them stopped talking to each other at all. Before this argument I associated with my classmates rather OK but after this thing happened most people in my class stopped dealing with me normally. Basically I was left out. It was tough, challenging even, but it was a time when I finally started to understand who's who to me. In the end of the 8th grade we made peace with each other so everything was pretty much back to normal. But I'm still 'guarded' when it comes to real trust between friends.


The moon is a stone and the sky full of deadly hardware, but, oh god, how beautiful anyway.

Yes. From middle school to high school I was constantly depressed and treated like garbage from peers. I identify so much with this character because, like her, I wasn't able to speak. I let teachers and students ostracize me because I had no self esteem whatsoever and hated myself so much.

I thought after high school these problems would magically go away, but they didn't. I've been going to therapy and getting lots of help. Melinda represents exactly how I felt when I was younger, which is why I have never forgotten this book and her character.

After elementary school. I never had any completely real friends to depend on. Always feellt like a complete outsider. Never fit into any of the clicks in High School, just kind of floated around. During break I hung out with a group but spent most of the time daydreaming. Depression of teenagers is something that really needs to be looked at more. This movie certainly covers it. Same goes for rape.

Speak is perhaps the best made for TV movie. I missed the start but I can totally relate to the character.

Marty: Romeo and Juliet, the dyslexic version.

This movie, in a way, has changed my life. It taught me alot about independance in High School. Before i watched this movie, if i was bullied, i would hate myself. Now when someone bullies me, i just think, you know what? fck off. I don't give a (rap what you think.

Kristen.
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I can relate a lot to Melinda. I wasn't raped physically, but there are instances where somebody does something so horrible to you that it literally rapes your soul. After it happened, I couldn't relate to anything but this story and one other. It's taken several months, but I'm coming to terms with it, accepting it happened, and trying to let go of it so that I can be healthy again.

Besides that, I never really fit in in school. I was the studious type, the goody two-shoes teachers pet, they said. So I got teased, bullied, and even persecuted against for being a Christian.

i had a similiar situation when i kinda just STOPPED talking to everyone...
i was suffering from an eating disorder...anorexia...and so i just kinda shut myself off from EVERYONE....
god, i didn't talk, i stopped reading, i stopped writing, i wouldn't let people touch me, hug me...
this movie..and thirteen REALLY REALLY REALLY helped through that last year...both movies just really helped me finally just get better and talk about things.

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