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In June 2020, when he was nine years old, Bayles made headlines after his mother posted a video of him online, showing him extremely upset and saying that he wanted to die, due to bullying at school related to his dwarfism. The video went
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when he was six years old and made five more attempts in the following two years. Bayles started getting bullied at school when he was seven years old.
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in 2015. Following the death of his grandfather in 2016, Bayles started exhibiting suicidal tendencies. He first tried to commit
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