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Bullying can start at a young age. Even little kids can be bullies.

Bullies pick on other young people for a lot of reasons. For this young man, bullies made fun of his race. He was Indian. Most of his bullies weren’t Indian. “Every day they picked on me for my race,” he continues. “And for a bit, one person made com- ments implying that I’m gay. They would make jokes and call me names like ‘Gandhi’. . . . I am not gay, and I am accepting of those who are. But, when this person labeled me as gay, I felt, in a way, violated and disrespected. They felt that it was all a joke, but it was torture and abuse to me.” He tried to get his bullies to stop, but they ignored him. They refused to listen to him. Not

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