11 year old brony attempts suicide following bullying

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Article here.

Wait for the comments about how his parents shouldn't have let him show his interests at school...

Then, leaving aside the posters who are part of the problem, talk about the actual story.

I don't have much to comment on it, really. There's not much to be said besides the standard, "it's tragic".

Is it me, or does bullying seem to be more virulent than it was in the 80s? I was teased a lot, and bullied in Junior HS, but I wasn't physically beaten and screamed at and called gay and all the other stuff that happens today. And when did "gay" become a standard issue insult? It seems that the worst thing you can be in school is gay, at a time when gays can marry and hold hands/kiss in public and generally not have to hide who they are as adults?

It was very foolish of the parents to inculcate their child with the notion that it doesn't matter what other people
think of him. Some degree of superficial conformity is your armour against bullying and compete ostracism. Of course it wasn't right that he was bullied, but you don't throw a child into a den of wolves wearing a sheep costume. You should either teach him how to protect himself, or you ought not throw him in the wolf den to begin with. >parents.

read this when it happened,as someone had uploaded it to imgurl.
is he still in a coma,have they found out if he is definitely brain injured or not yet?
hope the kids who bullied the lad recieve a lot of consequences for this, more so their parents for not teaching them the kind and correct way to behave towards others.

<BLEEP>ing terrible. It's sad that there are still people who judge people for what they like.

My heart goes out to this kid...

I have been made fun of multiple times in high school just because of what I liked... Why can't they just be accepting of others?

Some kids are more sensitive to bullies and never learn to fight back,they just have no idea how to be mean .I got bullied for the same reasons everyone does,acting weird,choice of clothes,what I said etc..........
there are defensive driving classes that show you how to deal with dangerous drivers,are there any classes that teach kids how to deal with bullies?
There was a pretty cheerleader type girl that always made remarks about my clothes.Usually in the tricky sarcastic way like she was interested in what I had on only to make me the butt of a joke.One day she asked me "Where did you get your pants,"with this little smirk.(I had on hot pink bell bottoms with cuffs,and they were flooding." if you grew up in the '70, you'll know what I mean.I looked her right in the eye this time,and I was angry,and said"Same place yo momma shops."She looked stunned that I even said anything back and she left me alone after that.
You could never count on a teacher to help.Two girls in English class used to punch me in the arm when the teacher looked away,I told the teacher and all she did was tell them to behave.
I never hit them back,I should have.I just learned that you never show them it hurts or cry,they got bored when they got no reaction and picked on someone else.
It's terrible that kids are still being tormented.

That's pretty horrible....but I can certainly relate to that kind of thing I experianced bullying and ostracism all through elementary, middle and highschool, and my family moved a lot so this happened at every school and sometimes I had teachers who singled me out and seemed to encourage their behavior. I was able to make a couple friends here and there or at least had aquantinces who didn't hate me. And attempted suicide at the age of 15 because I felt like such crap.

I don't see what exactly people get out of tormenting someone for being 'weird' or because they have an obscure interest or any of those non-harmful things. Yay they can contribute to things like suicide, depression and anxiety

I think we all know what it's like to be sh*t on as kids. It comes with the territory of being an Aspie. I can't tell you how grateful I am that extra effort is taken in my daughter's school to prevent bullying and ridicule of the kids not "normal." Otherwise, I don' think I could bare sending her to school if she faced the same abuse I had.

Bullies f*****g suck. The worst is when they take advantage of you and use you for laughs, and you don't even realize it until later on. I was bullied throughout my school years, and it only hit me as to how bad it really was when I was in high school. I had always hated school for the rules and the social structures and how the teachers seemingly tried to control me, but looking back the way other kids treated me had a pretty big effect as well.

Back on topic, my heart goes out to this kid and his family. While it may seem strange to some people that an 11 year old boy is a fan of "My Little Pony", the fact is that there's nothing wrong with it, and the kids who bullied him to the point of suicide were a**holes for doing so. While it has been argued that taking action against the bullies would go against the show's message, I actually don't believe that it would. Those kids should be thrown in juvie, and learn that what they did was absolutely WRONG and REPREHENSIBLE. I mean, they shouldn't try to hurt these kids, as many kids bully other kids as a way of making themselves feel better about themselves to make up for other issues in their lives, but they should be taught that their actions were completely unacceptable, and they should also look into the issues that caused them to start bullying in the first place.

It's terrible that other children picked on him for such a trivial thing, but it's extreme situations like this that really make me appreciate school uniforms. They restrict some freedom of expression, but I think overall they do more good than harm (even if the pupils wearing them don't often think so).

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