When Did It Happen?
September 2009
Where Did It Happen?
Salisbury, shopping with a group of mates
Who Were You With?
My best friends.
How Did it Go Down?
We all went shopping, and they had a different fashion style than me. They then all started talking about how they hate the new fashions and that they make people look stupid when, at the time, I was wearing some of the new fashion out. They started saying they think everyone should dress like them. We went into new look and every time I picked something up and said I liked it, they all just laughed and went, yeah, for an old lady.
How Did You Handle It?
I didn't handle it very well. In the end I gave in and started wearing the clothes they wanted me to and started dressing like them. I changed my whole appearance. It also changed who I was as a person, I started changing my style of music, my hair, everything about me changed because I didn't want to feel "left out" by the group. My other friends who I hung around with outside school sometimes stopped hanging out with me because I looked a mess. People started bullying me and take the mic out of me, my life practically wen down the drain just because I wanted to "fit" in with this group. In the end I realised the clothes I was wearing weren't me, so I changed back to my original style. I got a new group of friends and everything started looking up again and the bullying stopped.
Lessons Learned
- I realised that if they were really my true friends they wouldn't have made me change how I was, they should have liked me for me, not someone was trying to be.