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Elijah Vetma's emotional letter against bullying 		   
Summary Statement:

Tourettes is a disorder that makes me do uncontrollable tics some being noises and some being movements.

At school nearly every day I'm teased and laughed at when I make faces which is one of my tics which I cannot help doing.

Sometimes I get really exhausted having tics, and if I try and stop them they become worse.

Other kids have bullied me since I was in grade three.

For over four years I have had to put up with being bullied and teased and hated by everyone in the school.

I've been called all sorts of names like germ boy, gay and retard just to name a few.

And kids don't let me join their groups when we had to do team activities.

During school mornings I walk around all alone. This used to happen all breaks during school but now that I'm in high school we have a games room during lunch time where I can go and play some board games so that I'm not alone.

I try really hard to make friends but the people that make fun of me turn them against me. I dont know why they do this maybe to be popular.

People think I'm not the same as them but I'm exactly the same just a little different as every one else.

Just because I have a disability I still have the same feelings of wanting to belong, to have friends, and be liked.

I have feelings of sadness, anger, and confusion inside being alone and hated. I put hated in as that is how I see others see me.

People have even stolen from me and harassed me so much that I get really stressed and anxious.

I've sort of got used to being bullied and teased and each morning before I go to school I think of what's going to happen today. Nothing I have tried to do has stopped it.

My mum and dad always stick up for me by going to the school and talking about how they can help.

I think the people who tease me are the ones with the problems. As my mum says if they were happy with their own lives they wouldn't have to pick on others to make themselves feel better.

I hope this letter will help people understand how I and other people with disabilities feel about being bullied and what its like to be just a little different.

Elijah

http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2008/06/10/14873_news.html
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bullying
Submission Date:

06/10/2008by: shannonj
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