Part 1 : Bullying in the Eye of the Victims : Elementary Was The Worst

Just stay with me please. I promise all of this has a point:

My name is Katie Cross, and i have been bullied for over 10 years, so far. I have also been a girlscout for 8 years, and at the moment i am working on my Gold Award, the highest award you can earn as a girl scout. I am working on it as a single person, possibly with the help of a few grownups. The gold award is like the silver, and bronze award, but it's a lot more harder to earn. I have to go to a local girlscout board and present my idea, and then i have to get it approved. After that i will have to start taking action. For my gold award, I am going to do the thing that the state of Indiana refuses to do. I am going to take action against bullying.  I have a plan and I hope it works. I live in a small town, and it seems like the town is completely over runned by bullying. I see it every day, and if the state would just take their time and look at the situation, they might see that bullying is getting really bad and it really needs to be stopped. My dad killed himself when i was five years old, and bullying has become this sick sport. A girl was bullying me about my dad killing himself, and it hurt me so bad that my mom decided to take that girl to court. When we got to court the judge said that legally he could not do anything about it. What that judge did not realise was that when he said that, it made me feel like no one cared enough about me and my problems, that they would charge this sick person with something. I knew that the girl who i had taken to court had just seen her way into my life forever, and she knew that she could get away with it. Luckily this girl went to court many times before we took her to court. The judge told her to leave me alone or their would be consequences. It was still humiliating. That day i found out that people in the state of Indiana could bully you, and you couldnt do a thing about it. Of course there are school laws against it, but in my town, none of the schools did anything about it. Elementary School was the worst years of my life, including the year my dad died. I was pretty broken by the end of it. The only girl i ever trusted at elementary school was a family friend. I told her all of my secrets, but in fifth grade i started hearing rumors about her, and a lot of people were telling me that she was making fun of me behind my back. Of course, with me being completely against rumors, i didnt listen to those people. I just nodded and smirked. Then one day i was in the bathroom, and i heard her talking to one of her friends. She didnt know i was in the bathroom of course. She started out by saying that i was a good freind, and then she said that i was stupid enough to believe that she was MY friend. She said a lot more things that I am not going to tell you just yet, but whatever pieces of my heart that i had glued back together after they were shattered over and over again, those peices just fell apart, and it broke my heart. I truthfully didnt think that my heart could break anymore, but i was wrong. I turns out even a broken heart can be broken. Other than the hell that i was going through with bullying,  i found out that I had bipolar disorder and i went through medical changes, any affect, you name it, I went through it, on the side. I was being bullied tha whole time that i was taking different medicines and getting my blood drawn. In fifth grade they FINALLY found the correct medicine combination. Many of my family members said that i should feel normal, but they dont realise that normal people do not exist. None of us are the same, we all have differences, there for, we cannot be normal. People may argue with me, but loom up the definition of normal, and then TRY to apply it to life.....

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To be continued...