Have you ever uncovered a truth you’ll never forget?

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I actually cried, I grew up food insecure... I used to dumpster dive for Pizza and whatever I could find to feed my little and older brother... Mom was always too strung out to cook, and they had school and work to worry about, I dropped out freshman year because of bullying, and started struggling my ass off to get us any food I could... Cried myself to sleep from the hunger pains... Nobody should have to go through that...

[PokoChan]

This poor guy
Hope after this time
Someone would help him more

[robertquimby]

Middle schooler worried about feeding his siblings. That's terrible and he's an amazing brother for taking that responsibility onto himself

[tigger]

My church has put refrigerators in over 25 schools in the inner city so kids like this boy can have food to take home on the weekends. They also are sending home Thanksgiving dinner boxes, with a free turkey voucher, to over 700 kids in those schools. The food in each of the boxes will provide Thanksgiving dinner for as many as 8 people so they can have family and friends join them if they want.

[kicks]

Omg this broke my heart!!! I hope you learned a big lesson here - to never EVER judge anyone for you don’t know what I going on in their lives 😢

[exstacc]

Good on that Teacher for letting that child try to fight through his mother's pain rather than let the system make it worse, they always do.

[uok]

CPS shouldve been there to support his mum until she was better. That poor kid shouldn't have had to burden that.

[Cedargirl]

There was a child in the 5th grade at a school I worked at who was dealing with this. Not necessarily bringing food home, but making sure her siblings were cleaned and cared for and had clean clothes. Her grades were slipping and he was just getting angrier and angrier. Our social worker was able to intervene but foster care split her from her siblings so she only got to see them at school and she was still angry. I hate feeling so powerless to help.

[ranran]

Hope Marcus and his siblings are in better situation now.

[RaineTheCalico]

This is why bullying absolutely sucks. I have been bullied and it led to having to carry a stuffed animals around for emotional support (plus because of family issue related trauma and PTSD). I’m 15 and I still take it every where with me. When people at school try to tease me or touch my things I tell them to piss off and eventually start yelling. Especially if it’s my teddy. Some kids are going through things that cause habits that seem weird. Always just be kind and patient. Please.

[ckoritko]

There’s an episode of some makeover show (the one where they scream, “move that bus”) about a large family in AK. I used to play football with one of their sons. This kid had the best disposition I’ve ever met. The kind of guy that was always upbeat with a smile on his face and an encouraging word for anyone that seemed to need it. His name is Sammy. He was younger than myself, but he honestly encouraged me and made me a better man for having known him. We never hung out outside of football. I saw the episode once I moved back to the 48 and could not believe the conditions he and his family were persevering in. They were crammed into an almost third world sized home and didn’t have modern amenities. This is in a place where -40F is a regular occurrence. The whole family seemed to share his indomitable spirit, though. I’ve heard a lot of those shows actually end up hurting the families they cover due to increased financial stress with larger homes, but I hope they’re all doing well. You never know what someone else may be going through.

[tomisin]

Poor guy
Am sorry for him
It is not his fault
Please more help for him

[Chaster]

i hope people see now how severe depression can be. it's not a joke and it's not just being lazy. it's an illness that destroys some peoples lives, if they don't get the help they need

[natakug]

A truth I uncovered that I'll never forget:
When i went to film school, we naturally had a lot of group projects. I always had good grades and well recieved projects, so naturally, I was very frusterated when after awhile, in every single "randomly selected" group, I was always paired up with the same guy. This guy was the absolute worst. He never completed homework, never completed assignments, and in group project he literally contributed nothing. He would just kind of sit by himself, stare blankly, or just get distracted by youtube. I never knew what to make of the guy. He showed up every day wearing a bandana and a baseball cap on his head and always avoiding eye contact.

I always ended up giving him the simple tasks, effectively using him as a grip. He never gave me the confidence that he was capable of anything else.
I did try to encourage him to contribute, awkwardly deferring to him for ideas, or asking him what he would thinks about things, but he would always reply in that slowed distracted speech of his that he didn't know, or just bounced the question back to me.

I wont lie...he made me unbelievably angry. I was working my butt off, and I was honestly getting really tired of always having to carry this dead weight on every single project. It didnt feel fair at all. One day I lost my cool, and I got really angry at him, I vented my anger and even asked if he was brain dead...

He responded and said yes.
He pulled off his hats, and I'll never forget what I saw.
When he was only 6 years old, he was hit in the head by a stray bullet.
and to this day he still has a nasty bullet scar on his forehead. I didn't know what to think after that. I was mostly embarressed with myself. All of a sudden I was actually impressed with all that he could do. I continued to carry him as best I could, sadly he could only go so far from group projects alone, but I honestly hope that more people in his life will treat him the way I eventually treated him, and not the way I did.

I mean it. Honestly. What do you think you could do after taking a bullet to the head?

[Sleezy-yeti]

That guy went full feral because he was afraid of his siblings not eating fear and love is a powerful set of emotions

[damaldazzar]

Damn, that kid deserves a real family.

[jacktherabbit]

Stories like these rain on my heart greatly, we always bully the undeserved, and praise the undeserved. Leading to the backwards ideologies found today. What's wrong is right, and what's right is wrong.

[briannewman]

It is heartwarming knowing of a sibling making sure his brethren have a meal that day. It is heartbreaking knowing of the circumstances. 😢

[felipeopazo]

Marcus is a real one. Hope they are in a better place

[Humanist-scholar]

Bro really have a good reason for this.