Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-10581381-20181104041616/@comment-28396600-20190730032431

I've had a pretty rough day today:An 11-year-old girl in my town killed herself earlier and I've been totally shaken ever since I heard the news. I didn't know her personally but the fact that she took her own life at such a young age just breaks my heart. I couldn't even begin to imagine what her family is going through right now. Things got even worse when I discovered the reason why she killed herself:Getting bullied at school. Kids made fun of her for everything little thing. She was a little on the heavy side so they'd call her fat, she was Autistic so she frequently got called the R-word, and even something as simple as her coming to school wearing SpongeBob t-shirt would lead to people calling her a "baby" and saying other horrible things at her expense. I can't stand bullying and this is one of many prime examples of how much getting bullied can destroy a person's life, in this case literally.