Amanda Todd

[Star Puffs]

Not in a million years Troll away.

Which proves my original point, that you are exactly the sort of person who perpetuates hate on the Internet, who is too immature and cowardly to walk back a pointless misogynistic comment.

 

[The Josh]

Proof Wofford knows what it's like to be a 15-year-old, prepubescent/hormonal girl.

It's really not even that or him. There have been studies that show kids can rationalize like adults. Unless you work with kids everyday in the settings where this happens I don't think some people will get it. Kids today because of how society is with the dog eat dog mentality. That has made kids meaner and then you factor the Internet which only makes it so much worse. Kids break each other down and they're ruthless about it. Should kids be tougher? Sure but some aren't and it breaks my heart that any child feels that's the way out.

 

[thenammagazine]

It's really not even that or him. There have been studies that show kids can rationalize like adults. Unless you work with kids everyday in the settings where this happens I don't think some people will get it. Kids today because of how society is with the dog eat dog mentality. That has made kids meaner and then you factor the Internet which only makes it so much worse. Kids break each other down and they're ruthless about it. Should kids be tougher? Sure but some aren't and it breaks my heart that any child feels that's the way out.

A child with the equivalent of the world's greatest pharmacy producing any number of hormones threw her brain at any given moment as it tries to figure out the balance, is completely incapable of making a decision to live or die, let alone get behind the wheel of a car.

 

[The Josh]

A child with the equivalent of the world's greatest pharmacy producing any number of hormones threw her brain at any given moment as it tries to figure out the balance, is completely incapable of making a decision to live or die, let alone get behind the wheel of a car.

I agree with you that's a factor but all that other stuff comes in and when it mixes for certain kids its deadly.

 

[The Ween]

Are you for real? Change your ****ing rag already.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

I understand how this girl felt, that she didn't want to live the life she had.

Although not the same situation i lived the majority of my young life with the thoughts of not being able to cope with life.

(But this isn't about me so i'll spare ya'll the deets )

I think that this poor girl couldn't imagine anymore a life where people didn't harass her and bully her, and it was that thought that made her situation feel so hopeless.

I feel sorry for this girl, and i feel anger for those who could be so hateful, it's their fault she's not here anymore, not hers. She may have made the ultimate decision but without them she wouldn't have a reason to.

So people shouldn't say she was weak for doing what she did that it was her decision and her fault and she could've just sucked it up. It's the bulliers that should be the subject of discussion

It's really not even that or him. There have been studies that show kids can rationalize like adults. Unless you work with kids everyday in the settings where this happens I don't think some people will get it. Kids today because of how society is with the dog eat dog mentality. That has made kids meaner and then you factor the Internet which only makes it so much worse. Kids break each other down and they're ruthless about it. Should kids be tougher? Sure but some aren't and it breaks my heart that any child feels that's the way out.

You work with kids so probably have a better understanding than the rest of us, but imo i think we as Adults view kids and more mature these days because of what they wear and how they act and so on and forget that their minds are still young, impressionable and not as developed as ours.

 

[The Josh]

I think adults do view kids as small adults but that's not the case. Like I said kids IMO are more ruthless now than ever before especially with the Internet being a tool. Some kids cannot take the constant wearing down by their peers which can be nasty as well as constant. Sadly they choose to take their lives which should make everyone feel sad for them IMO.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

I think adults do view kids as small adults but that's not the case. Like I said kids IMO are more ruthless now than ever before especially with the Internet being a tool. Some kids cannot take the constant wearing down by their peers which can be nasty as well as constant. Sadly they choose to take their lives which should make everyone feel sad for them IMO.

agreed

 

[SixMillionDollarMan Guy]

I think adults do view kids as small adults but that's not the case. Like I said kids IMO are more ruthless now than ever before especially with the Internet being a tool. Some kids cannot take the constant wearing down by their peers which can be nasty as well as constant. Sadly they choose to take their lives which should make everyone feel sad for them IMO.

 

[Boba Ben]

My mom got called a j a p ***** by other kids, spat on, mistreated by racist teachers, locker glued shut, etc when she was that age for something that she had no control over.

The bullies were wrong. No justification for what they did to this girl and I'm sorry she died. I can't put myself in her position and her mindset, so I don't think it's fair to judge her one way or the other.

I will say this, though. If I were to kill myself, a lot of people would be pretty pissed off at me and I wouldn't blame them. I have a responsibility to my friends and my family. I've been pretty down in my life at times, especially when I was that age, but I'd never consider suicide to be an answer for my problems. It's a cliche, but suicide is a permanent answer to a temporary problem.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

I will say this, though. If I were to kill myself, a lot of people would be pretty pissed off at me and I wouldn't blame them. I have a responsibility to my friends and my family. I've been pretty down in my life at times, especially when I was that age, but I'd never consider suicide to be an answer for my problems. It's a cliche, but suicide is a permanent answer to a temporary problem.

I agree to an extent, but would say that people are different and some can't see that light at the end lf the tunnel where life improve to be tolerable again.

I made the choice to keep living for the sake of not wanting to hurt my family when i had my Transplant, i didn't want to go on the list and would've preferred at that time to let my life end.

I can look back now and know i made the right decision as my quality of life is better now, but back then i couldn't imagine a better uality of life being possible.

 

[ExMem-LarjaThwei]

When you're going through that much it's near impossible to just tell yourself that things will eventually get better and actually believe it. Sometimes it's so overwhelming and it seems like there is literally no way to escape other than death. And at that point you can't think rationally, you just want to get the hell out of there. i.e.

Not saying it's like that for everyone, but I'm sure that's what she felt.

She didn't have any friends, did she? I'm sure not having anyone to talk to or comfort her only made it 100x more painful. All of the depression, stress, emotion manifesting in her mind with seemingly no way to vent.

 

[crows]

I still don't understand why she didn't have any friends at all she says she sat alone in the library at lunch and didn't speak to anyone but I don't understand why.

what is the big deal about a girl showing her boobs? why would her friends care? it makes me wonder if she did that to herself by alienating everyone or if they were A-holes and they pushed her away.
I still don't understand. so the pedophile sent the naked pic to the people at her new school but so what? who would have cared that much not to talk to her?

It really sounds to me like they wouldn't really care much about it but this Amanda girl made such a big deal about it that she made herself be alone.

 

[dino76m]

I agree to an extent, but would say that people are different and some can't see that light at the end lf the tunnel where life improve to be tolerable again.

I made the choice to keep living for the sake of not wanting to hurt my family when i had my Transplant, i didn't want to go on the list and would've preferred at that time to let my life end.

I can look back now and know i made the right decision as my quality of life is better now, but back then i couldn't imagine a better uality of life being possible.

wat transplant are we talking about here? renal?

 

[ExMem-LarjaThwei]

I still don't understand why she didn't have any friends at all she says she sat alone in the library at lunch and didn't speak to anyone but I don't understand why.

what is the big deal about a girl showing her boobs? why would her friends care? it makes me wonder if she did that to herself by alienating everyone or if they were A-holes and they pushed her away.
I still don't understand. so the pedophile sent the naked pic to the people at her new school but so what? who would have cared that much not to talk to her?

It really sounds to me like they wouldn't really care much about it but this Amanda girl made such a big deal about it that she made herself be alone.

Perhaps knowing that EVERYONE in your school has a photo of your breasts on their phone might have caused just a slight bit of insecurity?
Then there's the taunting. And the creepy pedophile stalking her.

 

[crows]

Perhaps knowing that EVERYONE in your school has a photo of your breasts on their phone might have caused just a slight bit of insecurity?
Then there's the taunting. And the creepy pedophile stalking her.

no I know there was bullying and taunting but for her not to have any friends? I can't understand that. if someone showed me a naked pic of a friend in high school I Wouldn't think much about it. probably nothing at all. I wonder if her friends would make such a big deal about it or like you said everyone having a naked pic of her made Amanda freak out and reject everyone that knew her

 

[ironwez20]

Please if I was fifteen and somebody showed me a naked pick of the hottest girl in school I would ask that person to send it to my phone so I can use it for...... Stuff. But like I said this girl just had poor guidance. She takes to grown men and had sex at thirteen it was just bad parenting and morals. We shouldn't give this girl attention anymore. Why? Becuase there a hell of alot of people going through worse right now and we can prevent something like this from happening. We need to pay attention to the living instead.

 

[crows]

Please if I was fifteen and somebody showed me a naked pick of the hottest girl in school I would ask that person to send it to my phone so I can use it for...... Stuff.

but would you stop talking to her? would you bully her? push her aside?
I can't see me or my friends doing that, if anything I bet guys would try to hit on her,

the fact that she had sex with an older boy even though he had a girlfriend only shows how she wanted any kind of affection and wanted a friend. I find it hard to believe that everyone around her would be horrible to get because of a pic. Like you said, I wonder if boys tried to get close to her, but she says she sat all alone and no one to talk to. the fact that she got together with the other guy that took advantage of her loneliness makes this weirder, since she says he only wanted the sex but she didn't mind.

I still don't get it. some stuff don't add up

 

[JD18_92]

Ok if you were harassed at your first school for the pic you showed, then moved to a new school,with all new ppl, and the pic was already going around shortly after being there, Im sure it would be a little hard to make some friends. Hard to get some respect with a pic of your boobs on everyone's phone, on Facebook, im sure twitter...the girls wont respect you,probs thinking shes a "slut", and all the boys see that do what boys that age do with name calling and teasing among other things. "Hey nice tits". With all that, it would be pretty hard to make new friends no doubt. Dont really get whats so hard to understand about it.

 

[CelticPredator]

This thread totally reminds me why the I stayed the hell out of people's **** in High School.

And yes I had friends Nam.