“It was like … tremendous hate that I had never experienced in my entire life,” he says.
“People called me fag, pointed at me, did pranks on my desk. And it went on on the school bus, in the classroom, in my neighborhood. And those kids teamed up and found a way to smash my hand in a car door, and I lost the end of one of my fingers.”
“I lived that year not ever being able to talk to anybody about it,” Littlefield says.
His parents realized something was happening to their son, but he was too scared to tell them what was going on, Littlefield says.
“The only way that I could see out of that situation was to take my life,” he says. “I thought about it. I thought about it hard.”
Read the entire interview here: From NPR – Looking Back At The ‘Tremendous Hate’ Of Bullies
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