Gay man gets unexpected apology from one of his junior high school bullies - 20 years later
ChadMichael
Morrisette recalls being bullied so severely that 'I couldn’t even walk to
classes without an adult escort or friends with me'
ChadMichael
Morrisette remembers being bullied - a lot - during junior high and high
school.
'I was
bullied for being who I am,' he writes on his Facebook page. 'I was bullied for
being gay. I was bullied for being little. I was bullied for every reason
someone is bullied. It was awful. I couldn’t even walk to classes without an
adult escort or friends with me.'
Morrisette,
now a successful brand consultant and visual designer, was surprised recently
when one of his tormenters reached out to him on Facebook.
The man
explained that his daughter had asked him if he had ever bullied anyone and the
man sadly admitted that he had.
'What
came to mind was how shitty and mean I was to you when we were in Jr. High,' the
man wrote in a Facebook message. 'I want to apologize. If we lived in the same
state, I would apologize to your face. I don't even know if you remember but I
do and I am sorry.'
Morrisette
tells Queerty he could
not stop crying after taking a few days to process what he had read. He wrote
his former classmate back telling him he was 'quite moved' by his gesture and
accepted his apology.
'In 20
years, you are the only person to apologize for being a bully to me when we were
younger,' he wrote. 'I hope you can proudly tell your daughter that you have
apologized for it and that we are good.'
The man
replied: 'Your forgiveness means more than you know' and he added that he hoped
he is not the last person to apologize for the
bullying.
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