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#BEKindCampaign plus tribute to Caroline Flack #CarolineFlack #ITVThisMorning #Bullying

Mar 08, 2024
across the country today there are children spending the day afraid to go to school too scared to defend themselves too scared to tell anyone across the country today children are being bullied as part of this morning be a kind campaign we want As you watch this video with your children you will hear about two months whose children took their own lives as a result of

bullying

who experienced

bullying

that occurred in person and online Felix Alexander, 17, used to be a normal, happy child one day he left From home. and stood in front of a train endured cruel torment from bullies for years in February this year Megan Evans, 14, committed suicide after being inundated with bullying messages on Snapchat her parents had no idea she was being attacked his interviews are difficult to listen to but they are important his stories are a warning to parents to children who are being bullied and to those who participate in bullying on April 27, 2016 our beautiful 17 year old son took his own life He decided to do this because he couldn't see a way to be happy.
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People who had never even met Felix were abusing him on social media and he found that he couldn't make or keep friends because it was hard to become friends with the most hated boy in school. I write this letter not out of sympathy. but because there are many more children like Felix who are struggling and we need to wake up to the cruel world we live in, I appeal to children to always be kind and never stand by and not let bullying go unreported. Be that prepared person. To face cruelty, you will never regret being a good friend.
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Our lives have been irrevocably damaged by the loss of our wonderful son. Please don't let this happen to any other family. Malusi is here now and is an extremely powerful card. It was in 2009, when I was 10 years old, that this torment began. What was the first incident you became aware of? They were just little incidences of cruelty, little comments about, so you know, why didn't he have this or that? being invited to a party was more exclusion than anything else, how did it progressively get worse? Someone called him something every day, probably not the same person, probably quite often, the first time that person might have said something, but it might have been the fifth. the time she heard it that day she was alone at lunchtime she was alone on the weekends her social life with him was you know our family and if she made a friend outside it wouldn't be long before they got a text. message or a Facebook message saying that I want to be friends with him because he is the most hated kid at school on social media and when it became his life it wasn't even like he could leave it at the school door, this was now . in your house, in your room, in your pocket, yes, well, we tried to keep this from being in the home as much, but that just excludes and isolates even more because your generation doesn't have as many older children, but I think your group of year in particular, that's the The only way they communicate they're not very good at communicating face to face and I want to dwell too much on the day he took his life and that morning and he left, he was meant to take the bus to the school and he and he didn't go and we went to catch the train and he didn't come to school and the school called me and told me that someone had seen him getting off a bus in a local town and I knew that he knew someone. people in that town, so I thought he might have been too upset.
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I thought maybe he had gone to talk to his friends that he had there, so we went to look for him, but he was still fine, we know what happened. the rest of that day I have no idea about that day, but that's what he would do, I mean, if anyone and I'm going to have to say it for anyone who missed it, but he threw himself in front of the train, but there was no no hint of anything that he said that any day was going to be sadder than the last no and we talked before, you know, in a general sense, about suicide and he told me that he would never do that because I'm not brave. enough, it's still incredibly raw, yes, for you and your family, yes, that's why you wrote the letter, yes, it's been running around in my head, so you know, every time I take the dog for a walk, the words were in my head, I just despaired of it.
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I need to raise awareness. I desperately need people to talk about this to talk to their kids. In your letter there was a word that is repeated until the end and that you talk about a lot is kindness, yes it's very simple just be kind what kind of a girl was Megan Megan was bright, she was lively, she was happy , she was very popular, she was sporty, she was just a normal, happy, carefree teenager and you describe it is almost as if she lived a double life because for you and the rest of the family, as you just described this girl very different from this another side of his life that he was going through because you didn't really see any signs of anything.
I didn't see anything out of the ordinary with her, apart from the type she had in moments when she was in a bad mood, but then you know what teenager she is reserved, she was reserved, if I took her phone away for any reason, then she would disconnect from everything Arap , You know? she would delete messages she wouldn't leave a phone lying around she would have it with her the entire time you were out of the house with the younger children and she was gone for a short period Yes, Megan liked to bathe and she would take a long bath so that no one thought anything different at that moment until they got here; in fact they would go to the hot tub and they wanted to see if she wanted to go in with them yeah what did you find out after that you didn't know before some of her friends contacted me and told me she was being bullied relentlessly through social media ?
I think sometimes physical harassment would be a little easier to spot, but this was relentless during the day, at night, in the middle of the night, when she took his phone to identify him, we found out that he was receiving messages all night and they were only cruel and evil words, there was one. The final message wasn't there, yes, the final message was: Why don't you hang yourself? Yes, and she answered me. Okay, yeah. Lu I see that this is a similar situation to yours and your adorable Félix. It's catching us all. It's like dying from a thousand cuts.
It's not like that. Children are very cruel to each other and they don't see that their words have an impact if they are done remotely. They distance themselves from the effect and need to understand the cause and effect and what happens to that person. and how it can destroy you inside, but there are so many lives destroyed by this because for you and your family it is implicit that the impact of this is that you have to get up and move on for the person who wrote that message. I know they're probably far from her mind right now, but they don't realize the impact she has to live with for the rest of her life of what she's done.
I mean these little messages, these little ones. things that people throw out there, they don't realize the danger, is that one person in a group chat says: wait, that's not right, you can't say that it changes the direction of the conversation. The tragedy is also that Megan was that person. I was about to say Megan, yes, she was that person that she was which makes it so difficult for us and for everyone who knew her to understand why she did what she did. She was always helping other people. I had a little boy who posted a note. through my door a small handwritten note and he said he was so sorry for Megan, she helped him when he was being bullied and he wasn't there for her and also my youngest daughter, her only friends, if something happened in the school, they were going through a difficult situation.
At that time everyone would go to do and Megan was the one who went to build, sort things, what advice could you give to families who are watching this? No one knows what happens in another person's ear and be careful because words cannot be taken back. and words can kill all those interviews are very difficult to listen to, it is very difficult for us to do them ourselves, but the stories are incredibly important. Hit the pledge button below this video. Commit to watching it again with your kids. We know the first step to address the problem. bullies is to talk about it and ask for help if your child knows that bullying is happening, to tell him how important it is to be kind, to never turn a blind eye to bullying, in the words of Felix's mother, to be a person prepared to stand up to it. to cruelty and if you are being bullied remember there is help available don't be afraid to speak up it will get better Hello everyone and welcome back to my channel and today I want to talk about this morning's ITV campaign please be kind as someone who has autism and disorder of chronic anxiety I feel like this is a really important issue to discuss and support and ITV have run this wonderful campaign to eradicate bullying between children and adults and this relies on social media and not just Facebook Twitter.
Instagram Snapchat includes all the basic social media platforms that young people and adults like me use daily to spread my message of autism awareness as a local autism camp, an autism speaker, and an autistic woman in my hometown. I feel like this is a very, very important topic to raise and discuss right now, especially in the recent passing of television personality and presenter Caroline Flack, who was heavily trolled, harassed by the media and trolls behind a online keyboard and unfortunately it made sadness turn sad. decision to take her own life and this should not have happened this should have been prevented and I am sorry that she felt she had no other way out but to take her life Caroline I hope you are at peace I hope not fighting anymore I am so sorry for her family and friends, my prayers and thoughts are with your friends and family at this difficult time and I hope you are able to find answers and get the help and support you so deserve and I hope you get closure so yeah I thought I would talk about supporting people or the lack of support, I should say and so on with autism, not me, who depends on social media every day because it's part of my job, it's part of what I do.
I am an autistic woman and I have been on social media every day. They harass me. They harass me. They called me coldly. I've been trolled on my live streams because people think it's funny to insult you. They think it's funny. It makes you feel absolutely worthless and rubbish and lowers your confidence to a point where you almost don't want to be here, where you almost want to stop doing what you're doing, but there are people like me who are doing something good. there, doing something they are passionate about, they shouldn't be criticized for it, they should be supported and there should be that support to back them up and unfortunately people like Caroline and many others don't have that support, the system failed them their management failed them they were people viable ones that should have been there for them and I know Caroline had her problems and I know she was suffering from depression and things like that, but again this is about supporting people because you never know.
What goes on inside someone's head, you never know what they're going through personally and physically when you're being bullied, you don't really know the impact it has unless you go through it and see it happen to someone, these stalkers that they hide. behind the keyboard, the press, they are the biggest bullies on the planet, they will write stories that are often not true, they will make up a lie to get a cheap sale and a cheap dollar or a cheap pound results in what the story is, if anything. True or not, the damage of your words is absolutely lethal, you have no idea how much you impact someone's life through lies, pressure, constant harassment, name-calling, trying to get people to speak out against them, when you will stop looking at yourself and realize that what you are doing is making people want to kill themselves this has to stop it has to stop now this is not allowed to continue people like me a high risk when it comes to this concept because I have autism I have anxiety disorder People like us should not be the target.
Non-disabled people should not speak. Bullying is wrong. It is dangerous. It's sad. There's no need. We must be kind. Consider your words. What you say to people. Be kind. Take the time to understand. If they are okay, help them deal with things they may not talk to you about, get the truth out of them. Being friendly is the most professional thing you can do. Your words and actions define you. I'm going to put this. out there with the trolls with the media like son who is active locally with his local media, be kind with what you say, don't twist things, don't tell lies, don't publish these false stories that have no proof because you are damaging the reputation of people, you are damaging people's mental health, physical health, emotional health, think about what you are doing, we can't, it doesn't take much to support someone behind, please, I beg you, don't spread these lies and biological accusations that I have no proof that you are invading their personal life, they deserve to have a private life waiting for the press, yes they can be a personality on TV this morning or on ITV Love Island or anything else like that nature, leave them inpeace, let them have a private life.
Live away from the media, don't constantly harass them because you don't know the impact of these people. They are reaching the point that they have no way out. In fact, I've attached this ITV campaign video and be nice. the intro to this video so i hope you guys will watch that and share it and let people know that bullying needs to stop now it's not good enough this needs to stop it won't end until there's more blood on your hands please stop this bullying stop to troll please be kind but you consider it listen be an understanding friend don't sit here and be a troll don't sit here and be a hater because your words hurt your words impact the person so much that it takes a toll on their mental health and the from someone like me, it's dangerous, you don't know the damage you're doing to me and people like me who are on social media doing something good, please stop and yes, that's all I have to say on this topic, just think about your words think about what you are saying if you don't think you should be on social media get off don't be here so yeah thank you so much for watching this deep video and like share subscribe to my channel for more content.
And I'll see you all again soon thanks for watching, bye.

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