Topic: 11 year old attempts suicide after bullying over my little pony :-( (Read 1277 times)

I feel bad for this kid, but I also don't think he should have attempted suicide. He should have went to someone for help instead.


EDIT: necro thread! Newbies, don't bump old topics... Stahp.

That's so sad to know. Parent's should always guide their children.

lol seriously people are crazy

Bullies suck! Good for this kid for sticking up for what he likes, Shows character. I hope he makes a full recovery.

that dosnt make any difference or atleast it shouldn't. if you like a show then you should be allowed to watch the show, hell im 24 and still watch kids shows, do i like watching them yes, if someone bugs me about it i dont care, i enjoy them and im happy to watch them.

as for the lad. no one in this day-an-age  should be bullied over anything they do, i feel sorry for him but i do hope when the bullies get a bit older they get bullied, let them feel what its like

man fuk bullying.. seriously it hurts to see this crap.

My heart goes out to him and his family - I hope he fully recovers..
God Bless!!
AMEN!

Can you stop necro'ing threads? You've gone so far that there's a post about you as a spammer. Hope you get banned.

Poor kid iam feeling too bad for him. Bullying is definitely against the law and anyone does it should be in jail. 

You can always start a new one.

You could explain that maybe? And lol I hope you guys have actually tried reading the self-defence laws out there but if I go into detail with that I'll derail this whole thread.

Be careful, or he might 'block' you. I've been 'blocked' by him at least twice now.

This might be the stupidest thing I've read in a long time

There are clear self-defence laws. Are you saying little kids should be kicking the shit out of each other each time somebody picks on them for liking My Little Pony?

No there doesn't, compulsory education needs to be abolished and clear self-defence laws made >_<

Kids do. There needs to be more education in schools about bullying and its effects. Whilst bullying is a terrible thing, kids wont often realise it or know the damage they're causing, but also some people are just more sensitive than others. What some people might call bullying others might just see it as having a joke. I mean, people are gonna joke about a boy loving My Little Pony. That's just how kids are.

Shouldn't the parents be a bit more aware of what their eleven year old does on the internet?
Quite awful nonetheless
#stopponybullying

As a dad I would encourage the kid to stick up for himself if he seemed kind of timid, or at least trying to laugh it off and make friends of his/her own. Telling them to do this and having it done are different things though, especially when the bully uses his pack of friends to help. Some people are just genetically wired to be more timid and are going to have a harder time of things... that's life. It's not pretty, it's not fair, but it is what it is. You'll always have the quiet kid sitting in the corner by himself, while the pack makes fun and turns him into potentially another movie theater massacre waiting to happen. It takes the parent to notice and dedication on their part to instill self confidence in the child in order to help reverse this.

It's sad, but the sometimes you just gotta roll with it and tell someone about it instead of doing drastic things like this. But he was 11. I don't think I even understood suicide when I was 11.

so...what do we say about the other 11 year old bronies who DIDNT attempt suicide.  Do we nudge them towards the whole, you make choices and they are yours to make wholeheartedly, but you do realize it will come at a price?  The same goes to the pack-kids who sat there and did nothing because they wanted to fit in or the bully kid who has his/her own problems to deal with outside of school or at home who feels pressured to escape by emulating what happens to them but on someone else weaker (I don't condone what happened there...but its sort of a mixed bag of thoughts depending on your POV)  I personally think that the kid must understand that the choices he made had those consequences, just like my choices to eat pizza, cheese and other junk food made me live through the consequences of being bullied about my weight as a kid.  

I think the comment on gawker about how a woman related to this story put a major spin on it to her own benefit really drives home that this whole "bullying" thing benefits therapists, psychologists, writers, television and documentary program directors for new material which can be Sold for...money. Heck...Gawker is benefitting, they are getting advertising revenue from the increase in pageviews for this content.  So is call to awareness really just another cheap ploy that in no way benefits the bullies or bullied?   I don't know about you...but my favorite part of "Chistmas Story"  is Ralphie beating up Scutz Farkus.