Audriana Burella File

If you do not know the name, let me pause here. Audriana was a 17-year-old girl. A daughter. A friend. A student. And, in the spring of 2019, she became the face of a tragedy that forced a community to ask some very hard questions.

And if you are a parent, a teacher, or just a human being with a social media account: check on the young people in your life. Not with suspicion, but with curiosity. Ask them what they see online. Ask them what scares them. And listen. audriana burella

It is a script written in hell, and it is happening to teenagers every single day. If you do not know the name, let me pause here

If you are reading this and you are struggling—with shame, with fear, with a mistake you think defines you—please hear this: A friend

There is a peculiar kind of silence that follows the mention of a name the world barely had time to learn. We scroll past news alerts. We see GoFundMe links shared by acquaintances. We offer a quick “thoughts and prayers” and keep moving.