I am an adult, so on the adult website I made a page called “Idiotic Insults”, which means that people say things to people with cancer that aren’t thoughtful or smart. As adults with cancer we can laugh it away and realize that someone was just not thinking when they said something silly to us.

But, when children and teens say something to other children and teens, it is usually meant to be hurtful and mean, and teasing or bullying anyone is not okay. But teasing or bullying someone with cancer is REALLY NOT OKAY.

This page has links to anti bullying sites for help for those of you who have been teased or bullied by others because you are “different” from everyone else while having treatments. I know what it feels like to look different after being bald and walking around with radiation lines visible on my upper chest and neck in public, I got a lot of stares, I wasn’t bullied, but it was NOT FUN to feel so different as a woman with no hair and marker lines on her skin!

I would like to thank Elise for helping me to think of creating this page. She told me that boys at school told her, “Noone wants to marry someone who has had cancer (not true!!) and she was going to die anyway (noone knows who is going to die when, and they do not know what will make someone die either, cancer, being hit by a bus, or being in a car accident, or whatever else!!)

So, know that you are not ALONE in dealing with cancer and bullies and seek help if it is happening to YOU!! Tell a teacher, counselor, principal, your parents, your brother or sister, an aunt, an uncle, a cousin, tell SOMEONE WHO CARES and will help you think of ways to say things that will help you feel like you are standing up to the bullies and are stronger that day for telling them to STOP. Even just shouting, “STOP!!!!” at someone may embarrass them enough to make them quit, or at least get someone to come over and see what is happening and that person can help get the bully to quit and go away. That is my wish, for each and every one of you that finds this page, if you have cancer and are having a hard day today because of others.

Thank you, Canshare See below for links:

A good place to start is:

www.stompoutbullying.org

Another site to see is:

http://www.stopbullying.gov/

This next one is Pacer.org and it is their National Bullying Prevention Center:

http://www.pacer.org/bullying/?gclid=COqkrryg9awCFQdN4AodqHogTA

And this last one is an article titled: