Her story and her struggle was one of most talked about stories worldwide. Her name was Amanda Todd. From the outside she looked like a healthy 15 years-old teenager who is having the time of her life.
Every person is allowed to make mistakes. Honestly we all did it, we were all exposed to circumstances that cause us to make mistake. However, in her case her mistake haunted her till the end for her incredibly short life. That mistake happen when she was 12. She was video chatting with an older male stranger. When he convinced her – a child – to uncover her breasts to him. She - being naively young - approved. He captured that moment of her mistake and a year later
he contacted her Facebook threatening her to expose the photo, unless she make a “show” for him. Amanda refused, so he sent her photo to her classmates in school. There she was exposed to a lot of hurtful agents of socialization.
Agents of socialization are the factors that effects how we act and who we are in society. In Amanda's case, the agents of socialization were her friends and her classmates in school. Firstly, she was teased in school by here classmates. Secondly, all of her friends abandoned her after her nude photo got public. Due to those hurtful interactions her parents decided to move her from her school. But the bullying continued, so she moved again. There Amanda was manipulated by a male friend to have a sexual intercourse with him. When his girlfriend found out, she was furious about his unfaithfulness, so she got it out on poor Amanda. It was infront of the entire school where she was left to bleed on the floor. Being the young age she was, and going thought the painful social interactions she went through, she couldn't handle it, so she attempted suicide. She was rushed to hospital and she survived. The entire time she was suffering from severe clinical depression, she was on anti depressing’s and moved to another city again. There she posted this video telling her story to help others.
Agents of socialization are the factors that effects how we act and who we are in society. In Amanda's case, the agents of socialization were her friends and her classmates in school. Firstly, she was teased in school by here classmates. Secondly, all of her friends abandoned her after her nude photo got public. Due to those hurtful interactions her parents decided to move her from her school. But the bullying continued, so she moved again. There Amanda was manipulated by a male friend to have a sexual intercourse with him. When his girlfriend found out, she was furious about his unfaithfulness, so she got it out on poor Amanda. It was infront of the entire school where she was left to bleed on the floor. Being the young age she was, and going thought the painful social interactions she went through, she couldn't handle it, so she attempted suicide. She was rushed to hospital and she survived. The entire time she was suffering from severe clinical depression, she was on anti depressing’s and moved to another city again. There she posted this video telling her story to help others.
Unfortunately, She couldn’t escape the past in her mind. On October 10th 2012 she painfully committed suicide, she hanged herself.
Amanda had a very fragile identity. The circumstance that happened to her permanently destroyed her. And the agents of socialization around her did help her through it. She didn’t have the support system of her friends. Also, she faced a lot of hurtful social interactions from school that followed her to the comfort of her home by the hurtful online social interactions. Amanda Todd was killed. Yes killed and I use the word very strongly here. She was effected by the society that didn’t embrace her for the mistakes she made. She was easily manipulated for her young age and fragility.
In the end, we all make mistake and we learn from them.
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Rest In Peace Amanda Todd. |
Sadly for Amanda, it is too late. </3
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