Team.Stand.Up

To all those who have suffered depression. Or ever thought about giving up. For those who want to escape. For those whose days are filled with sadness. Please know that Hope is whispering in your ear to carry on, that you are not alone! Write “love” on your arms.

We stand with you. <3

flanjer:

it’s taking place friday, November 12, 2010.

to take part, simply write, “Love” on your arm.

To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. TWLOHA…

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This is Brandon Bitner. The face of yet another life lost.

We have got to support each other in the face of this epidemic.

This sweet soul did NOT deserve to be the victim of senseless harrassment.

Bullying is wrong in any form. This has got to stop!

Stand Up To Bullying.

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joxa:

(Published by CNN.NDTV)

This message is for every girl who goes to work, school, or home alone.

If you find a child crying on the road showing his/her address & asking you to take him/her to that address, immediately take that child to the police station and ABSOLUTELY NOT to the to the address.

This is a new way to gang rape girls.

Please reblog this message in order to help make girls aware of this sick & twisted method of tricking girls into getting raped.

Dont be shy to reblog this message, as this 1 message can save the lives of many girls!

….damn.
i’m not going to lie. that’s a clever way to rape someone.

o__o
can’t even trust children

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This is important, ladies! We have to be aware of this.

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tiffanybeliebsx:

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glamedupmars:

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Oh my god, I’m completely in love with this photo. I love the girl with the frizzy hair.

“My fortune is that I have been taught to have enough emotions to have dear friends, not all autistic people have that privilege.”

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Let me introduce you to Christopher C. Gagliardi-Monahan. He was born December 18th, 1980 in Westwood, New Jersey. As well as being a youth advocate, he is also a motivational speaker. He currently works as a special needs outreach coordinator for the physically and mentally challenged in the 37th legislative district for Assemblywoman Valerie V. Huttle.

1.) What would you say is the biggest misconception about autism?

The biggest misconception about autism is that we grow out of it. Once you are autistic; there is no getting around it, that it is why people have grown to understand and gave us a spectrum of autism. It takes us a great deal to be understood and to understand ourselves! That is the most important part of autism is for us to understand that we are, we have, and we’ll always be autistic. There is nothing wrong about being autistic, that only means we are very unique and special individuals.

2.) You started a petition towards making bullying illegal in public schools. What was your motivation behind starting it?

Actually, that is only part of why I am sincerely trying to do. Not only in public schools but all schools in every walk of life!! I chose to make this a priority awareness because of how I was totally tormented by bullies. Not only did I start it (the bullying awareness) for the people in schools, I also started for every individual that has been bullied or dominated by others.

I watched my mother be bullied also while she was raising me alone. People judged her very terribly, so there must be many more people in the same position when they believe in something so strongly, and it is NOT part of going along with the crowd.

When the tragic and saddening stories of youth taking their own lives due to the horrendous abuse and mistreatment that bullies had caused in their lives, it made me more determined than ever to do something about this. Which I am pleased to say, this will be one of my deepest and greatest legacies to leave behind for future generations to come.

3.) What advice would you give to others who find themselves being bullied?

My advice comes from my heart to those who suffer in silence. I will say this as loud as I can: we cannot stand by and allow anyone to take away from us what we have inside! No one on this earth is better than we are, and we are no better than others!

So when someone is bullying you, you must realize even at that moment that that person themselves are in excruciating pain. They are not happy, so they have nothing better to do than to try with all their might to destroy another human being that they see as weaker than them. 

No one - and I say this loudly - no one that is being bullied should be afraid to have the courage to speak up until they get the help that they truly need to stop that person(s) from ultimately destroying themselves! We who are bullied are actually victors in life, not losers! We are unique, special, and in a wonderful position to create a positive human revolution. So if you can remember that if you are being bullied, it is your mission to NOT let them change you, but your mission is to change THEM!

4.) Any other projects or work we can look forward to in the future?

This is phase one of my mission. Phase two will be to bring the petition to Washington D.C. so we can tell our president, congress, senate, and the people who have the power to create laws this message: “Stop the internet or anywhere from being places for bullies to hurt people.”

If the government can have a program that picks up on the words on the internet that apply to things against the government, then we can have a program that will pick out the people who are doing this injustice to others. That is a goal. The other projects, I hope you all are thinking about yourselves. We all can make an ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE!

5.) Is there anything else you would like to add?

First of all, my Mom did help me with these questions. (Thank you Mom very much).

Finally, I leave you with two quotes that inspired me always every time. The first one is from a philosopher named Daisaku Ikeda: “A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of an entire nation and further will help achieve a change in the destiny of the entire human race.”

And the second one is by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Who I have long admired) said this: “What lies before us and what lies beneath us are small matters compares to what lies within us.”

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Change starts with us. One at a time.

To sign Chris’ petition, click the link: http://chn.ge/akZtyO

And here’s the link to his Twitter page: www.twitter.com/ichrisg2009

Anonymous asked: I've noticed that you don't mention anything about the legal aspects of bullying and cyberbullying. Do you know anything about those?

Yes, I am aware of them. 47 states have laws in place and they all vary. I’ll be posting something on the ‘Combat Bullying’ page soon with a mini-overview of the legal ramifications that can happen due to bullying, cyber-bulling and harassment as well as a link so my followers can check those laws within their respective states. Thank you for asking. :)

beneaththemonster-deactivated20 asked: i support !

Thank you, sweetie! :)

…. the virtual community were invited to wear purple to spread awareness of the 5 gay teens who committed suicide over the course of the past two months. Many have asked the seemingly unanswerable question : why. 

why did this happen.
why so many boys.
why kill yourself.
why.

many have offered their insight to this, here is mine.

these young men were all victims of severe bullying. not the kind when snide, whispered comments are made in the spur of the moment. these boys were ridiculed, and humiliated publicly.

Tyler Clementi 18 was denied the right to privacy.

13-year-old Seth Walsh, was outed and teased for being openly gay.

Asher Brown, 13, shot himself in the head, because his schoolmates made fun of him. for being small. For being buddhist. For the way he dressed. And for being gay.

15-year-old Billy Lucas, hung himself, because his schoolmates decided that it was “okay” to publicly ridicule him for being gay.

these children are dead because someone, somewhere one day decided that being different. being “gay” wasn’t okay. that being different wasn’t right. that those children, those innocents, didn’t deserve normal lives. 

but, i ask you this question, as food for thought. are we not all human? do we not all breathe the same air, or do the same things, or feel the same emotions, do we not all have a heart pumping every minute of every day? are we not all human? gay, straight, white, black, asian, rich, poor?

my heart is heavy, when I think about the number of deaths in the short span of a few months.

the idea that man are so advanced in their sciences and their mathematics, and technology, but we can’t get over the fact that we are different. that we are all special. that it is okay to be different.

these innocent young boys, were openly gay. they had faith, and they had hope that their societies would embrace them, and offer them love and hope as any other human. They put their faith in their peers. Only to be led to believe that they’re lives weren’t important. that their stories didn’t matter. but their stories do matter. as does yours. and your family’s. and mine. and my family’s. and so on.

5 innocent lives lost because nobody was there to deliver love and hope when they needed it the most. 5 innocent lives lost because nobody would join them, and remind them that they were not alone in questioning the big things. 

tonight we will all be reminded that we all question those things. we will be reminded that if we had tried to fight for them, and meet them halfway in their questions.

we could have saved them. but we will also be reminded that love is louder, and stronger, and bigger than hate. and friendship is one of the worlds greatest gifts.
but we all need reasons to believe in that.

Tyler Clementi, Seth Walsh, Asher Brown, and Billy Lucas, did not have the chance to discover these reasons for themselves.

food for thought.

x

( This story was submitted by http://dowelaughorcry.tumblr.com/ )

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I love the fact that you wrote something so eloquent, honest and heartfelt.

I can’t even lie, I got teary eyed reading it.

Thank you for writing this and sharing it with us! :)

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mirandalynnvega:

I am a Christian.

You might cringe at those words, because unfortunately, we’ve gotten a bad rap.

We’re the “God hates fags” guys. We’re the ones yelling at the women leaving abortion clinics. We’re the bad guys.

But myself? I like to think of myself and the people I know as different people.

I serve a God whose Son hung out with the ‘bad guys’. The whores, the drunkards, the liars, the cheats. I serve a God who has redeemed me. I’m not perfect. None of us are. And we’re all His children, and He loves us all the same whether we return that love or not.

I just wanted to say two things: I am so very sorry for those people. I am so very sorry for anyone who has hurt you, who has judged you instead of loving you because of their ‘personal beliefs’. I love you and I believe this, love is louder than anything. Hate is what nailed Him to the Cross and it sickens me to see my ‘fellow Christians’ practicing that same hate against others.

I love you. Regardless of age, sexual orientation, weight, height, physical beauty, attitude, social status, race. I love you for you. Because He loves me for me.

Completely stole my thoughts right out of my mind.

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You must live inside my head because it’s totally how I feel.

Thank you for writing this. <3