My name is Beatriz, i´m 12, and I live in são Paulo, one of the biggest cities in the world, and I just hate it. I´m not skinny, and I´ve always had some issues with my self confidence, and I know how to talk to people and make them see what is wrong with our society.
Now, let´s get going...
I´m on 7th grade in one of the best schools in SP. I´ve been studing there for two years, and I really liked my school, but in the beggining of this year, I discovered a list wrote in one of the bathroom´s doors, it was a list of the fattest girls in the 7th grade, and of course I was in it. The list was like this:
Lista das mais gordas do 8º ano (List of the fattest girls in the 7th grade)
1) Fernanda Palumbo
2)Julia Prado
3) Fred (my best friend, even though he is a boy he was in the list, I think the skinny nitch who wrote it thougt it would be funny)
4)Bia (that´s me)
5)Bel
I would be lying by telling you that my first reaction after seeing the list was to cry, cause at the second I saw that list I wanted to write an answer in that door, the phrase "fuck you crappy society" ran through my mind, but before I could do anything, my best friend dragged me out of the bathroom.
When I finally saw the list, all the other people whose names where there had already seen it, well, it was in the girl´s bathroom, so Fred didn´t know about the list until I told him, the morning after I saw it.
Since that day, I cry everyday at night, and I´m only sure of two things, number one, I will not lose weight just to adjust to the society or to please the people who judge me, and number two, I´m not going to stay quiet, I don´t wanna know who wrote the list that started my problems, but I´ll do everything I can do to change the situation in my school.
After that list, bullyng has been a big problem in my school, and people just don´t seem to notice.