Jamey's Story..

Mark Peterson-Estrada

I don't want to make anyone wrong for something that happened when we were kids. I understand the psychology of it all. It has to STOP with someone let's let it stop with us. I want adults to get together and talk about what occurred for them growing up. Go into the schools and save lives. Who wants to join me!

Jamey Rodemyer said I always say how bullied I am, but no one listens. 








Mark Peterson-Estrada says 
My personal experience the way I see this based on my high school Jr year ..it takes far more courage to get up off the floor ~pick up your books and go to class after one of the "Guys" knocks you down for no reason. Takes no courage just fear~anger~self loathing to harm another to feel powerful. Those who looked on in silence allowing it to happen not offering to help. They are the ones who make sure boys and girls like Jamey take there lives at 14yrs old

Jamey Rodemeyer needed help. At 14, he was grappling with adolescent demons that could torment grown men.

And when he was online, he wrote about it.

FAMILY PHOTO, VIA BUFFALO NEWS

Jamey Rodemeyer

“I always say how bullied I am, but no one listens,” he wrote Sept. 9. “What do I have to do so people will listen to me?”

Just over one week later, Jamey was found dead outside his home of an apparent suicide.

In the months prior, he routinely blogged about school bullying and thoughts of suicide in between upbeat posts about his pop star idol Lady Gaga and the ordinary types of teen rants typical for kids his age.

On Sept. 8, he wrote: “No one in my school cares about preventing suicide, while you’re the ones calling me [gay slur] and tearing me down.”

He put up a separate post that day letting everyone know it was National Suicide Prevention Week.

Then he posted the lyrics to a song by Hollywood Undead:

I just wanna say good bye, disappear with no one knowing

I don’t wanna live this lie, smiling to the world unknowing

I dont want you to try, you’ve done enough to keep me going

I’ll be fine, I’ll be fine, I’ll be fine for the very last time

On Saturday night, he posted a lyric from Lady Gaga’s song “The Queen” on his Facebook page: “Don’t forget me when I come crying to heaven’s door.”

Then around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Jamey posted two final messages to his main public Tumblr blog. One said he really wanted to see his great-grandmother, who had recently died, and one offered thanks to Lady Gaga.

That was his last entry.

“He touched so many hearts, so many people,” said his mother, Tracy Rodemeyer, who met with some of his grief-stricken friends at Williamsville North on Monday. “I didn’t realize how many people he touched. He was the sweetest, kindest kid you’d ever know. He would give all his heart to you before he gave any to himself.

  

PLEASE SHARE YOUR STORIES SO WE  CAN ALL CONTINUE DOING THE SAME.. 

I will post your stories or you may post them on a Facebook page as well as on my website.  Hoping to get my now adult classmates to go out to the schools or at least create a video that sheds a little light on the shadows

that still can be found in the halls of countless places around the world. 

Giving deep meaning to the lives of the  boys and girls who were not as lucky to make lemonade.   

They gave there lives so that  bullying,shame and self  hatred would  come to an end..

 I say it stops with me.

Judith S Giannotti 

It has to begin with not only telling stories, but with self-esteem enhancing programs at home and in the school for both the bullied and the bullies. Children must be raised with the understanding of how kindness shows strength (unlike bullying) but unkindness is hurtful, dangerous, and does nothing to enhance the bully, but is rather so unkind and hurtful. I worked on a committe to set up a bullying program when I taught in the schools. They must learn kindness and compassion day by day. This is a great start Mark. Children must learn at an early age "to each his own"...