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http://www.thebostonchannel.com/cnn-news/19141470/detail.html

BOSTON -- Sirdeaner Walker, 44, has been surrounded by family after discovering her son, Carl Walker-Hoover, 11, hanging by an extension cord in the third-floor landing of the family's Northampton Avenue home in Springfield.

Walker said her boy, upset yet again over another bullying episode at school, had committed suicide.

"They were always saying, 'you're gay, you must be gay, you act like a girl,'" said Walker.

Comments

[systris.livejournal.com]

This article reminds me of too many things and people and places I regret not doing damage to. Bullying hurts now,then and always...along with 'just ignore them' and 'words don't hurt' that 'time heals all wounds' crap is bullshit too

just ignor them

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

Oh I hated that.
One example...
Yea, and how easy is it to ignore being cornered by someone 6 inches taller, a star athlete, and quite a bit heavier carrying a piece of classroom equipment that amounts to a cane, who puts death threat letters in my locker? Ignore that? In what sane world?
Although the bit which still turns my head sideways was having one of the popular kids who was an ally later ask me why I didn't clearly and verbally say the word 'no'. Like she didn't have permission to step in until that happened? WTF people!

...

That poor child. That poor mother.

[hyrkanian.livejournal.com]

School counselors always handed me the "Just ignore them and they'll get bored and leave you alone. They're just looking for attention." Didn't work, just convinced other bullies that I was an easy target. My waist length hair had chunks cut out of it various times, handfuls of hair yanked from my scalp. Pinched, poked, slapped, pushed, taunted and teased. For years.

Time doesn't heal all wounds and words do hurt.

[kireishojo.livejournal.com]

sticks and stones may break my bones
but words leave scars forever.