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I was 14 years old! When a young offender helped. My teachers put me in an accelerated winds up in the news, his name stays under program. Ididn't have time to wallow in self wraps. No photographs are printed or broad- pity. You have to learn how to overcome cast, by law, because that person is a minor obstacles and keep going. You may only inch That's because he may have made a mistake, forward, but it's important to keep moving but his life is just getting started. Why didn't ahead. The nextyear, Iwas ready to face no I get the same protection? Q: Did you consider cashing in? mal life again. I switched schools Q: Before debuting on YouTube in 2006, the A: Every single talk show in North America original video had millions of Internet hits. wanted me as a guest I still have Jay Leno's Have you considered asking for financial itation. A Japanese show offered me a lotcompensation? of money. But why were they inviting me?A:No. That's part ofletting it go. Do I think They wanted to turn me into a circus act. it's fair that people are making money off Having your 15 minutes offame, when you've my video? No, But you have to learn to turn done something truly worthwhile, is one the page. thing When you earn it for something humili Q: Several high-profile cases of gyberbullying ating, that's entirely different. People were have occurred in the last few years.Has society making fun of me, of my appearance. The learned from them? video is, what, two minutes long? A bloA: If what happened to me in 2003 were to people drew condlusions about me from that happen again today, I can't help but hope that video. It's not something that you wattobe things would be different. For instance, Ihope associated with. Definitely not when you're that school authorities would be there to hel me through it. My parents had to turn to the STUDENTS CLIMBED ONTO TABLETOPS TO INSULT ME. PEOPLE MADE FUN OF MY PHYSICAL private sector to findservices tha hould have offered.I thinkthat, today,schools feel more responsibility for what happens on the web. Bill 56, which deals withschool bull APPEARANCE AND MYWEIGHT: udnteetoak themseves, Wouldyou All grown up: Overcome your shame and get help Raza tels young victins of cyberbullying the Internet? Would you say it in public Schools should offer a class on bullying. Q What message do you have for young vic my exams, so I wouldn' fail.I did the exams in a high school affiliated with the psychiatric unit of a hospital because it was the only quiet place we could find. That is what started the rumours about me being sent to a psychiatric ward. Afterwards, we wanted to know: could we sue the media to force them to stop show ing the video? What about suing the school which had failed in its responsibility to protect 14or 15 and trying to build your identity. No case, I wasn't exactly Mr. Popularity. I didn me? We settled on the idea that, by suing the matter how hard I tried toignore people tell have 350 friends. During the chaos,I lost the few who had uploaded the video, we'd send ing me to commit suicide, Icouldn't helpbut few that I had. I had no one but my parents A:First ofall, you"ll survive. You'll get through it. And you're not alone. You are surrounderd by people who love you. You have to overcome yourshame and get help.Ifyou'relucky enough to have parents who are there for you, speak with them. If not, look for help at school, among your teachers or your friends. In my feel worthless, like my life wasn't worth liv and my lawyers. But their presence was cru- they helped me to survive the hurricane Q: Many people on the Internet didn't agree ing. I never tried to commit suicide, btci was a very dark period for me. Without them, I'd have been swept away. A: The medka's story was that we were greedy. Q: During one online movment, 140,00 Q: Looking back, would you do anything Some said publicly that the people beingsuedpeople signed a petition asking George Lucas, differenily were the real victims. They reversed our roles. the man behind Star Wars, to cast you inA:I'm at peace with all of the decisions that It was crazy! I can't reveal the figures of the upcoming episode of the series. People even were made. Would I change the past, if I settlement, but none of us got rich. It didn't colected donations for you even coverourexpenses.The point was tosend A: I got an iPod, some video games and a today I'm happy with who I am. Through it a message that the media would understand. few Star Wars collectibles. I know that the a, I met good people. I opened myself to Q: Which was what? A: That people should behave more respon tions, but they were only drops in the ocean the product of good and bad experiences. sibly. In one case, a Quebec television chan of contempt that I faced. could? No.I wouldn't change a thing, because people who sent me gifts had good inten new ideas. I learned a lot about myself. I'm Obviously, ifyou were to tell me that it would looped the video while guests cmented Q:When did your life feel nornmal again?happen again, I wouldn't greet the news with on it. They gave my last name, my first name, A: Ihad a private tutor for my fourth year of overwhelming joy and happiness. But I my hometown and the name of my school. high school. Being outside of school really wouldn't look for ways to avoid it.

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