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Bullied

"I was experiencing the high school equivalent of a crucifixion everyday."

Listen to this Commentary!

By Quincy Mosby

When I was 15 years old, suicide was the last thing I thought about before I went to sleep and murder the first thing I thought about when I awoke.

I’m Quincy Mosby with a commentary from Youth Radio.

I wasn’t fighting at school or fighting my parents. I was fighting my own weakness, what was not being able to stand up to people who were bullying me.

I was experiencing the high school equivalent of a crucifixion everyday. I was either being spit on or punched or pushed or talked about…because I had different views than my peers.

I couldn’t tell my teachers or anybody about what was going on. In high school telling is being weak. Kids are like sharks, they smell that weakness like blood in water.

I reverted to making subtle threats within the daily reflections we wrote in English class. But even then, it didn’t keep people away from me.

Things are better than they were before. I keep my opinions to myself at school and listen to 50 Cent records. It’s not me, but it’s a less tortured me.

For Youth Radio, I’m Quincy Mosby.