I moved from New York to South Carolina when I was about six years old and left some very important people in my life behind. It sucked, but I had no choice. Fast forward to middle school, I have never been the type of person to be in a clique, whoever I become friends with, were my friends and that was all that mattered. I'm Italian, I have a lot of hair, and for three years I was teased about the hair on my arms.

The thing that people liked to call me the most was "gorilla arms" or told me that I had "boy" arms. Wow, it is not like I did not know that I had hair on my arms, thank you for making me self-conscious and insecure, I really appreciate it! High school comes around and I thought that maybe things would get better, but they did not. It seemed to have actually gotten worse.

I had the best of friends, throughout the three years of middle school, we danced together, hung out all the time, did normal girl stuff and planned to stick together in high school because it is "big and scary". Oh, what liars. Everything was fine for the first two weeks or so. I had decided against my parents' wishes to transfer to another school that was a lot better because I wanted to stay with my friends.

In 2013, this app called ask.fm was very popular, where you could comment anonymously on someone else's page. Well, I started to receive horrible and hateful comments and threats by these anonymous users. There are a lot of horrible things in this world, and bullying/cyberbullying is probably one of the worst things a kid could experience because there is nowhere to go to escape it.

Cyberbullying has become a large problem because of the high usage of the internet. It is common that people who are too scared to act poorly in person, hide behind a screen and hurt others for no reason whatsoever. NEWSFLASH! It's NOT FUNNY NOR CUTE. It is not in any way, funny to be told that you are sleeping around with random people, being called a slut, whore, bitch, or anything else you could think of because, in all honesty, I have probably been called it.

The awful things that were being said about me, half of them I had no idea what they even were at the time. It's awful that people actually believed that these terrible things were true. I ended up changing schools in the middle of the school year to go to the school that my parents wanted me to go to in the first place. The rumor had even carried over to that school, but no-one cared enough to continue talking about it.

Even though my high school career was ruined because of this incident, I made many new and better friends at my new school. If you are going through something similar or something totally different, please speak up and tell a teacher or faculty member that you trust, I bet that someone cares and will help you. Bullying ends people's lives and this issue is getting very out of hand, so we need to stop it before it’s too late.