Eleanor Neale

She just looked vulnerable.

Like she looked like she lacked confidence.

And you know what kids are like in school as well.

They can like smell the fear and the anxiety in other kids and then they pick on them once.

But there was also the fact that Anna was so desperate for friendship because like I said, she struggled socially and with making friends and she wanted friends so bad.

She really did, but she didn't know how to do it.

And her teachers worried that this desperation for like a best friend or a friend group could lead her to being taken advantage of maybe by other kids in big school.

And when Anna eventually went up to secondary school, her teacher's concerns became a reality.

Anna really struggled to make friends.

She really didn't have that many.

She was left out of a lot of things by the other kids.

But the saddest part is was that Anna was a genuinely really, really nice girl.

She was harmless, she was so kind, she was generous, she wanted the best for everyone, but she just lacked social skills.

So she was a wonderful person, but no one was ever gonna find that out because she couldn't talk to people long enough for them to get to know her.

But in this secondary school, Anna was bullied relentlessly.

In primary school, like I said, it was just more teasing and picking on her every now and again.

All the kids kind of did it to each other in primary school, but now in secondary school, Anna was a target.

They would pick on her for a lot of different things.

Her height was a big thing.

Her social skills were another.