I’m 68 like Chris Crawford (who I tried without success to tag — there were several Chris Crawfords but none with the right picture — I thought there couldn’t be duplicate names on Medium?!) but I’m not shocked, only dismayed to the point of despondency.

Not shocked because I had bullies out the yin-yang, so my life was also full of menace, but it must be all the worse for these girls because of the sexual threat, which I did not have to deal with. But the silence of the teachers I knew all to well. There was one who at least acknowledged what was going on — I’ve been working on a story about that — but overall the silence was deafening. And like you I could not bring myself to ask for help because I felt like it was somehow my fault.

It seems like there is more awareness of bullying nowadays so perhaps there is some hope for the human race.