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Child 1

1. Suffering from Chronic Disease A.
2. Always bullied by classmates.
3. Do not have much friends. Only close friend is one who suffers from Chronic Disease B.
4. Always teased by siblings and classmates.
5. Teacher requested the mum to transfer him to special school for OKU students when he doesn't have any studying difficulties and physical disabilities because they find it hard to accommodate to his disease (which by the way is not hard at all).
6. Dad is always scolding him since he can't accept the fact that he has disease A.
7. Ended up in hospital because classmates pushed him into the drain which made him hurt his knees. No one helped him. He had to endured the pain and walked back home.

Child 2

1. Suffering from Chronic Disease C.
2. Classmates are always helping him. Even if he needs to urinate frequently, his friend will accompany him.
3. Every one in school likes him.
4. Siblings always accompany him to follow-up.
5. Teachers are nice and patient with him.
6. Dad cares about him.
7. Ended up in hospital because he needs his medication.

2 different child, almost the same age, suffering from diseases that can't be cured, different settings, different life, different fate.

Sometimes kids say the darnest things which just make you laugh. But sometimes they can be brutally cruel like the 'friends' that child 1 has.

My heart goes for both of these kids for the diseases that they are suffering. In terms of life, I pity child 1. How I wish I can shake those so called 'normal' classmates so that they can be mature enough and STOP making fun of him. It's already a sad new that he has this disease and it's worst when he has to face all the name-calling and bullying at school everyday. These kids really need to know the consequences of their actions. Their 'innocent' act will just hurt the child physically and also mentally.

How to stop yourself from hurting people? Start placing yourself in one's shoe. If you don't like how people treat you in certain way, don't do it to others. Being young doesn't mean you are excused from hurting people 'unintentionally'. God has given us brain and its function is to help us think.

So think before you act.