Don't Enable Suicide, I Almost Did Because I Hated My 6th Grade Year, And Someone Who I Know, Their Best

Don't enable suicide, I almost did because I hated my 6th grade year, and someone who I know, their best friend committed and they found out their parents weren't holding s funeral for him because he was gay, so for the entire week, my friend group wore teal and purple and make teal and purple bracelets. I still have mine. It was our little remembrance of a (from what I've heard) a wonderful soul. I hope he's well.

About a week ago I posted this.

I’ve been getting horrible messages like this in my ask for months, including:

and my personal favorite

After getting the message saying “Just go kill yourself” I was completely done dealing with this person’s horrible messages and replied with just an “Okay.” and logged off tumblr.

About a week later I logged back on with 17 messages in my ask, most of them from the anon. I scrolled down and at first when I logged off, the anon messaged me things like

I scrolled up more and all of a sudden they started sending me more and more messages like

This was extremely surprising to me. I thought “After all those horrible messages you sent to me for MONTHS about hating me and wanting me dead, you say ‘sorry’ and that you ‘cant be responsible for someone’s suicide’?”

But I guess the lesson goes like this:

DONT TELL ANYONE TO KILL THEMSELVES UNLESS YOU ARE PREPARED FOR WHAT MIGHT ACTUALLY HAPPEN