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Personal Experience Summary.]

Throughout our lives we are often met with a dilemma growing up "bullying". Often times children are bullied by not only other children they know from school, but often their older siblings can be bullies as well. Growing up i knew a boy by the name of Arlen he was the youngest of four boys and they were all about a year apart. Arlen at the time was 12 and all he wanted was to be part of the activities that his older brothers participated in. Now you would think that because they were all close in age that shouldn't be an issue, but one thing was different about Arlen he was overweight so his brother constantly picked on him for that. Over the next few years things took a turn for the worse at the age of 17 Arlen did the unthinkable he ended his own life. All of the bullying was never dealt with by Arlens parents he had no self worth and very few friends. He would sometimes stay at my house for weeks at a time, so not only was bullying to blame but so was parental neglect. To this day no one in Arlens family feel they are to blame they feel that he was just a weak person who couldn't deal with a little pressure.

References: My personal experience 1993-1999 as Arlens friend Arlen my friend 1982-1999

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