I am 17, and I am homeschooled for a number of reasons. One huge reason is bullying. I was bullied the whole time I spent in public schools. I was never the most fit. Despite being born premature and only about 5 pounds, I have always been overweight. (I'm not proud of it, but I have developed wats to accept it and feel comfortable in it.) I was always picked on for being "fat" and "ugly" and things along those lines. We also didn't have much money, as my parents divorced when I was in 2nd Grade and my brother and I lived with ourr mom. Mom was a cashier at the local Walgreens, so we didn't have much money. Because of this I was ridiculed for having cheap clothes and didn't have a phone or even an iPad. I was always the target it seemed. It got much worse in Middle School. I moved in with my dad, who lives in a highly populated area while my mom lives in a small town. My grades quickly declined, my depression worsened, and the "city kids" were even worse than my old school's. Throughout my time in middle school, I constantly asked myself "Where did humanity go wrong? Why do we value appearance so much?" I sometimes started to give in to the hateful words of my peers. Yet somehow, I resisted. I didn't want to be like them. I knew if I gave in, I'd try to be more like them to try and "fit in." But that would mean becoming the very thing I hated. So the past two years I've worked hard on not letting words get to me as badly. I know I will be ridiculed ans criticized, but I will not fall into the unrealistic standards society puts into place.
Society favors the pretty. Society favors the wealthy. If you don't have either, you're just dirt. That's what each generation is coming to find. If you don't fit in and are the cookie cutter of perfection, everyone will give you hell for it. You did nothing wrong. Society is broken and twisted. Society wants you to lose your sense of identity. To become part of the beutiful, horrible, uniform crowd. And if you stand out in the least bit, they will beat you into submission, or the victim gives up and takes drastic measures to escape. They then proceed to call you selfish for killing yourself.
Telling people that they are ugly or fat, stupid or retarded, weird or a psycho, is not doing anyone any good. Yet somehow, society applauds hate like this. They encourage it. They will do whatever it takes to abolish the ugly. People have died because of how cruel Society is. The people that fit in with society would all be arrested if saying detrimental things were a criminal offense. Those who say "I wish you weren't born" "You were a mistake" "Just go kill yourself", they'd all be in prison. And it'd likely be that group of popular girls all the teachers approve of. It'd be the jerks on the football team fueled by their coach.
I will not let society win. You shouldn't either.
I am biologically female.
I will never wear makeup.
I will never buy designer clothing.
I will never shave my legs/arms.
I will never play Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
That's all bullshit society feeds us as imperative. Society plans to eradicate Individuality.
We can't let society win.
