stay strong, kid.

A Westport Junior High student named Alye Pollack, who says she’s been bullied every day since the sixth grade, has taken to YouTube to express her misery by remaining poignantly silent.

That video made me cry.

All of the stories I've heard in the past year or so about kids getting bullied and the horrible consequences of it... I don't even know how to begin to process it. The bullying that I went through seems so pathetic in comparison. It just makes me hate the kids who do this to other kids and even though everything that happened to me was years ago, it makes me never want to forgive the people who made me feel like I was less than. I still boggle over the fact that one of the girls who routinely made fun of me in late elementary school/much of middle school friended me on Facebook, and the thing is that on one level I feel like I should be over it, you know? We were eleven, twelve, thirteen when that shit happened. But does anyone who's ever been bullied ever really forget what happened to them?

Either way, I sent Alye an e-mail and hope that she reads it.