This girl, her name is Amanda Todd.

She posted a video on YouTube a few days ago.

She was bullied so bad it led to suicide...

 

She was in a webcam chat group to meet up with new and old people.

 

 

They started calling her Beautiful, Stunning, cute, Etc.

And then they asked her to flash...

So she did.....

Thinking it was nothing...

A year went by and some guy she did not know, messaged her saying

”Give me a 'show' or I will send your boobs.”

She ignored it.....

Christmas Break came and a knock came on her door at 4 AM.

It was the police...

That person sent the picture to EVERYONE.

Everyone judged her.

Bullied her.

From ONE MISTAKE.

She ended up switching schools.

That person found out her school, friends, address once again and sent them there too.

She had no one.

Everyone hated her.

She ended up switching towns.

Then at this new school....She met this boy who she thought liked her.

He didn't....he had a girlfriend.

One day she got a note saying you better leave school.

She didn't.

A group of boys and girls including that boy, the girlfriend and more came up to her while the school surrounded her.

The girl said “Look around, No one likes you.”

One kid from the group said “JUST PUNCH HER ALREADY!” So she did, and Amanda got beat really bad.

And got left.

Alone.

And her dad ended up finding her in a ditch hours later.

She went home and drank bleach, to try to kill herself.

It didn't work.

The next day all over her Facebook page was written

“Drink some more bleach",

"No one cares",

"I hope she dies, "No one would cry", "Everyone hates you", "Amanda try it again we dare you"…and so much more.

She cried every night. Why did everyone hate her.

One mistake.

One.

She started cutting so much and did drugs,and drank alcohol.

She ended up trying to kill herself again.

She failed.

She couldn't take it anymore.

At the end of the video it said ”I am Amanda Todd. I just need someone.” October 10th she hung herself.

 

 

 

THIS IS JUST THE STORY I HEARD, IDK THE REAL STORY!!!!

Edited October 13, 201213 yr by Roxie

But it is selfish. There are many people that care for you, especially when you are a 15 year old girl. And clearly she is getting a lot more attention now post-mortem.

 

I'm sure there were people who cared about her, but sometimes when you're that depressed, you just don't realize it. I felt very alone and unloved when I was being badly bullied, but I know my best friends and family love me. I was just in too much pain thinking about how miserable I was, rather than remembering how much people cared about me. Yes it was selfish, but if you're in that much pain, it doesn't feel selfish. It's like if someone's stabbing you with a knife. You don't feel selfish trying to get away from that pain.

 

edit: just saw keytodestiny's post

 

that is a terribly cold thing to say. I've gone through a lot more than you could possibly imagine, and I was miserable and on the verge of suicide. Things are more bearable now, but I went through a lot of pain to get to where I am. And let me tell you, bullying is not a "tiny problem", especially not the kind this poor girl was suffering through. I actually find it kind of sick that you're making her out to be some monster when she was just a poor teenage girl in pain. She was trying to get attention because SHE KNEW SHE NEEDED HELP. When you feel that pain, you know there's something you need to do, and you need to express the the pain you're in. It's hard to bottle up all of that depression and frustration.

 

If you were in her position, being tortured like she was, I have no doubt you'd either already have committed suicide, or would be seriously considering it.

 

While it's sad that Amanda had to die, it can be turned into something good. Through this girl's pain, people have to start realizing more and more how wrong bullying is, which will help stop other kids from suffering. I don't know where on earth you're from, but no kid says, "wow, my life sucks, oh that girl killed herself, what a good idea, i'm gonna do that too". That's like saying "oh, I hate America too, I'm gonna go crash a plane into the empire state building." You have to be very mentally screwed up to twist something like that.

 

I just can't believe you're belittling her life like that. No one wants to attention like "oh there's that loser who killed herself". She wanted someone to reach out to her and tell her she was loved and stop her and get her help, because she probably didn't feel capable of doing that on her own. Bullying is anything but a "small problem". I don't think you understand what it's like to be bullied so horribly. From personal experience I can tell you, it makes you want to die. You're in so much pain and you just want it to stop. Because everywhere you go, it won't stop. And it sounds like she had a pretty shitty home life, too.

 

She should never be ignored. This is a girl who suffered. She should be used to enact laws against bullying, and everyone should realize what a beautiful girl was lost because of how sick and cruel people can be. It's sad that it had to come to her death, but she will actually end up probably saving more lives.

 

What she did is sad and wrong, but you are saying she doesn't matter and she is worthless, when you never knew this poor suffering girl. It is cruel and wrong for you to mock someone you never met.

Edited October 14, 201213 yr by Think Pink

But it is selfish. There are many people that care for you, especially when you are a 15 year old girl. And clearly she is getting a lot more attention now post-mortem.

 

I understand what you mean. But when someone is that upset, they're not thinking clearly. To talk shit about them for something they did out of pain, isn't right. She might be getting attention now, but she's not exactly here to ENJOY the attention. I highly doubt that was her reasoning for doing it.

I understand what you mean. But when someone is that upset, they're not thinking clearly. To talk shit about them for something they did out of pain, isn't right. She might be getting attention now, but she's not exactly here to ENJOY the attention. I highly doubt that was her reasoning for doing it.

 

That was beautiful, bro.

That was beautiful, bro.

 

Well I know what it feels like to be in pain and THINK that your life is over. It's not. And I wish she would have realized that. But she still deserves pity and concern.

i have a lot to be depressed about, I've dealt with more than you will probably deal with in half your life, and i am a happy person, and committing suicide is SELFISH, 99.9% of the time people commit suicide they do it because they think their tiny problems are never going to end, so they kill them selves and they don't care how much it hurts their family and friends, and this stupid stupid girl made a video trying to get F'ing attention when she killed herself, it's totally moronic, and pathetic, and everyone who doesn't get the fact that people who commit suicide are taking the easy way out,(because suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem), and they don't think about the people it hurts like their family, and friends, people committing suicide always have the chance to destroy someone close to them, it happens all the time, an only child to a single parent kills themselves and the parent feels so horrible they just let their life fall apart, this happens a lot, suicide is selfish and is a waste of a beautiful thing we call life, and Amanda Todd or whatever the A.W.'s name was, is sending a horrible message to the youth, that if you are having problems and aren't happy, and you kill yourself and do something to get attention, you will get 15 minutes of pity fame after your dead, this girl was a stupid attention whore, with small problems, that she made worse, and never tried to fix, and she wasted a life, and she should not be given pity fame, she should have been ignored, and the video destroyed by youtube, and everything that talked about her should be wipped from the internet, it glorifies suicide, when it is a selfish quitters way out

 

You're completely wrong.

Are you going to say that this GIRL was stupid because she was HURT?

So what?

It doesn't seem the parents were doing anything.

She still feels hurt in many ways.

I've been depressed to and suicidal, and yes it is a dumb move and we all can agree on that, but you don't have to call her stupid.

That's really messed up.

All suicidal people are attention seekers, if you don't get that then that's bad for you.

You're completely wrong.

Are you going to say that this GIRL was stupid because she was HURT?

So what?

It doesn't seem the parents were doing anything.

She still feels hurt in many ways.

I've been depressed to and suicidal, and yes it is a dumb move and we all can agree on that, but you don't have to call her stupid.

That's really messed up.

All suicidal people are attention seekers, if you don't get that then that's bad for you.

 

well she did flash random people on the internet, that can be considered very stupid, ergo she is stupid, but so are all teenagers, every teenagers stupid in some way and has made some stupid mistake, she just made 2 Grade A stupid mistakes, i am not calling her stupid, her actions stupid, and we are talking about her actions not her, lets be honest, nobody here knows her

This whole thread is making me remember last year and I feel like I'm about to cry again ._.

One of my friends had an opinion on this matter

 

why is everyone just focusing on amanda todd. yeah she killed her self, but so did three hundred other people on the same day as her, "oh she got bullied" so does everyone else. It's not fair that we only focus on one person. she will be missed. and no. nobody deserves this. but still. what about the other families that lost their little girls. or their little man. you can't just focus on one pers

on. she shouldn't have done it. i know. but neither should the other kids. nobody should ever think that this is okay to bully someone so much that they want to kill themselves. nobody ever thinks. yeah schools are making an effort to try and stop bullying. but it's happening right in front of their own eyes and they ignore it. why.

 

As a general response to what people have said. This girl was hurt due to something she inflicted upon herself, and when things started getting bad she only made it worse. If people are treating you like crap, and you know what you did to cause them to treat you like crap, then stop firetrucking doing it. First your exposing your body online, next you are sleeping around with other people's boyfriends. The only thing seperating Amanda from all the other attention whores in the world is that she killed herself.

 

She had no right to do that to herself, especially after what she's done. There are people living right now that are in much deeper shit than she is and aren't taking the coward's way out. Hell, my grandparents and my great-grandparents altogether survived the Bolshevik Revolution, the Japanese occupation of the Phillipines, and the Holocaust, all when they were Amanda's age. Some of my friends have gone through stuff that makes Amanda's life look like easy-mode. I've been hurt before, I've dealt with depression. As a matter a fact, all people who ever live at one point go through a period of depression, often several periods.

 

I hate to condemn the actions of some poor girl around my age who took her own life, but so many people are acting like she is some great martyr. That she did nothing wrong, that she died gloriously to send a strong message against bullying. She had everything a teenager should have (though she may have been down a few IQ point) and she threw it all away through her choices. There are people in the world who would do anything they could to get in Amanda's position, even with the harassment and bullying and I'm not even talking about some starving child in Sudan. There are people in this very country barely getting by and dealing with the most horrendous things on top of it, harassment and bullying would be a breath of fresh air for these people. If what Amanda did to herself and others isn't selfish then somebody needs to tell me the correct definition of the term.

 

I really want to remain as respectful about this as possibly, but seeing so many people (not only here) give this girl Saint Status is an insult to the people that have taken their own lives for slightly more legitimate reasons (suicide is never legitimate though).

Edited October 14, 201213 yr by Amon

Okay, seriously. Come on, guys. She may not have led the perfect life. Who has? She may have made some mistakes. Who hasn't? The fact is, a girl took her own life, and I don't know about you, but when someone dies or takes their own life, that's not something that I look back on and say "She was an idiot, and this was her fault people shouldn't be treating her like they are." Someone is dead, that is tragic. Period. You can have your opinions on her, but at least respect the fact that a girl is dead, a family just lost their daughter. Depression is something that can affect anyone, regardless of how they live their life. Just because she was "just" bullied, that doesn't give people the right to go "What do you have to be upset about? Stop being selfish." I don't condone suicide, but when someone does kill themself, for whatever reason, it's tragic.

her fault for flashing and not expecting some consequence dont hate the people who called her out on it

As a general response to what people have said. This girl was hurt due to something she inflicted upon herself,

 

I'm not going to argue with this, as the catalyst of all this was her fault.

 

and when things started getting bad she only made it worse. If people are treating you like crap, and you know what you did to cause them to treat you like crap, then stop firetrucking doing it. First your exposing your body online, next you are sleeping around with other people's boyfriends. The only thing seperating Amanda from all the other attention whores in the world is that she killed herself.

 

Even if sleeping with people who are taken, you're implying sleeping around is a bad thing, which it isn't. Her body, her choice.

 

She had no right to do that to herself, especially after what she's done. There are people living right now that are in much deeper shit than she is and aren't taking the coward's way out. Hell, my grandparents and my great-grandparents altogether survived the Bolshevik Revolution, the Japanese occupation of the Phillipines, and the Holocaust, all when they were Amanda's age. Some of my friends have gone through stuff that makes Amanda's life look like easy-mode.

 

So? Just because your life is easy or my life is easy doesn't mean our pain is lesser to that of others. For God's sake, I'm depressed right now. But I have a family that loves me, gives me food, shelter and clothes. I suffer anyway and even though it's not logical for me to be depressed, thoughts of death and blood keep coming back to me. I suffer and all I want is for the pain to stop. It's actually amazing I haven't killed myself yet but finding the strength and the resistance is not easy. It's firetrucking difficult. Everyone is different, some people are sensitive while others are nonchalant. The desperation for wanting their suffering to stop is all it takes for them to crack. Not even the clothes on their back, the food in their stomachs, the roof over their heads and the reassurances of their loved ones can take that suffering away. Even if they have a healthy lifestyle, it doesn't mean you are impervious to psychological pain. Another thing is that depression can be genetic. Why should they be criticized for something that beyond their control? Everything affects everyone differently, we don't all have resolves of steel. Depression isn't something you can block and fight against with your mind. It's a sickness, something that can't be helped.

 

I've been hurt before, I've dealt with depression. As a matter a fact, all people who ever live at one point go through a period of depression, often several periods.

 

I hate to condemn the actions of some poor girl around my age who took her own life, but so many people are acting like she is some great martyr. That she did nothing wrong, that she died gloriously to send a strong message against bullying. She had everything a teenager should have (though she may have been down a few IQ point) and she threw it all away through her choices.

 

She didn't see any firetrucking choices if all she was doing is suffering. And not just her, but any individual with depression including myself don't see anythig beyond that pain even if they know what they are feeling is impractical.

 

There are people in the world who would do anything they could to get in Amanda's position, even with the harassment and bullying and I'm not even talking about some starving child in Sudan. There are people in this very country barely getting by and dealing with the most horrendous things on top of it, harassment and bullying would be a breath of fresh air for these people. If what Amanda did to herself and others isn't selfish then somebody needs to tell me the correct definition of the term.

 

Let me repeat again. That does make Amanda's or anyone's pain lesser. Nor would or should harrassment and bullying be a 'breath of fresh air' for anybody. That is the wrong mindset and attitude to have.

 

I really want to remain as respectful about this as possibly, but seeing so many people (not only here) give this girl Saint Status is an insult to the people that have taken their own lives for slightly more legitimate reasons (suicide is never legitimate though).

 

her fault for flashing and not expecting some consequence dont hate the people who called her out on it

 

If a guy had flashed their junk, no one would have cared. When a girl flashes any part of her, people get in a tizzy.

 

See how misogynistic you are?

TheApprenticeofKingMickey

 

i am many things but one things. i am weird, flamboyant (yet not gay), extremely mad when you get me in the mood, a towel head, terrorist ( people call me), and much more but i am not misogynistic. i promote people to be the best they can be the best tht they can be. if your gay fine i dont care. if your poor .i dont care. if your a girl i dont care. but if you put yourself in the place where your gonna get critizied and dont think tht you will be then you are stupid each action has a consequence and and if you consciously make the decision to flash your hooters just cause guys say your pretty then tht means tht you were a pretty sad person to begin with. tht one kid in new york tht killed himself because people made fun of him being gay deserved tht attention, but this girl who WILLINGLY flashed her knockers doesnt she doesnt even deserves this attention and if you hink tht she does your not looking at it as a she did 2 stupid things, your looking at it as a "omg she killed herself like and share this page in 3 seconds or else your dog will die and stuff" point of view. your not helping anyone your making yourslef look foolish..... now it is sad she killed herself but she was stupid do to it

all of you suck