Alienated at school, have your say

I have a friend on another site that I have strong feelings for. She was born and brought up in Germany but moved to the US when she was in her early teens with her mother and new step father. She formed a friendship at school. Her so called friend told everyone including her parents about her being gay. Her parents initially did not speak to her for about a year and a half. She was shunned at school and basically from that point on was alone. She has such low self esteem and struggled education wise due to depression. My friend is now a shadow of the person she should have been.

Teenagers have such an ability to be cruel and have no sense of responsibility for the damage they do. In the end they need to learn that they are responsible for many teenage suicides and mental disorders. I doubt this is even discussed at schools.

This reinforces my decision to hide my sexuality, but this is not a gay issue. There are so many differences between adolescence at schools. These differences should not be used as weapons. If you have had to put up with abuse describe what happened and tell others how it affected you. Maybe it might make someone think twice before acting so harshly.

Teens are often cruel for the sake of being cruel, as they get older they settle down quite a lot. schools often can be the best and also the worst times of peoples lives.

Okay well this doesn't happen at my school because its a rele small school and there are lots of gay/bi/lesbians there and no one hates them, we all get along really well. but my friend christian was born into a really relgious home and community and he is gay, and a couple of years ago a student came out and admitted he was gay and some boys from the football team harrassed him for years and he shot himself in front of the school. so my friend christian has to pretend to be a super jock, he dates girls, and basically sleeps with them so he can cover it up (although he was masculine to begin with). but its terrible what kids can do, the words that come out of our mouthes are even worse than the actions that adults take...

Yes i felt alienated at school
and im my own group too
sometimes people can be cruel
I dont know I am just glad schools over
doesnt mean its stopped thou..
SIGH
xx

People are very much like that at my school too! I mean I am not saying that I am gay but I feel sorry for the people that have to go through that because no one deserves to be treated like that! No one!!

Kids will be kids. its part of human nature to put others down or make other people look bad because it makes ourselves feel better & look better. i think some people cant help but be complete arseholes, maybe they will one day grow out of it. when i was in my first couple years of high school i used to get called a man and a manbeast etc cos i had a deep voice and was a bit of a tomboy. however it stopped when the lads grew up n their balls dropped n their voices became deeper etc. also this one guy abruptly stopped it when i punched him in his face although he did hit me back. he got taken the piss out of for hitting a girl and having a buise on his face from a girl. lol.
there was never any gay people at my school really. you know the camp extroverted ones where everyone knew they were gay from a young age. i left high school nearly 4 years ago i i still cant think of any gay people so that was neveer an issue. i didnt come out as bisexual till i was at uni and no one ever had an issue. i never knew at high school really n even if so i wouldnt have come out cos it would have been difficult & i know i would have got stick for it cos as i said my school was full of straight chavs and rude boys.

Some people just harrass other ppl because they don't a life and they are jelous of the gay ppl who are in a good and helatlty relationship