Please Stop Laughing At Me...
Jodee Blanco
Please Stop Laughing At Me…
Adams Media Corporation, 2003
276 Pages
ISBN – 1-588062-836-2
Bullying is something that has been around for a very long time. Because the media cannot bring every story out into the spotlight, or tell the whole gruesome story, it is hard for people to understand how severe bullying is in our playgrounds now or even twenty years ago.
Jodee Blanco bravely takes us into her world and tells readers the honest truth about what her bullying experiences were like. From being verbally bullied to even and physical bullying nothing is left out of the book. She takes you into the darkness that victims are forced to deal with and the hardship of trying to get her parents to understand that she’s not making things up. With backstabbing friends, the stresses of moving and transferring schools and just trying to fit in – Jodee’s life in high school was a misery.
Twenty years later Jodee is a successful publicist who doesn’t even live in the same State as when she grew up when she got an invitation for her twentieth high school reunion. Should she go? What would they think of her now? What would happen?
Being a victim of bullying – whether it be now or twenty years ago – is truly a hard thing to go through. Understanding what a victim is going through is even harder. Though not every victim goes through what Jodee did, her story will help countless people to better understand the hurt.
