Just think for a second what a child wants in life and what child's life consists of?
Does he think - I'm happy because my parents are loaded? or because my school it the most expensive one?
No, child wants to socialise, to have friends, to play games with them, to be excepted... He doesn't want happiness to be beaten out of him, sometimes literally... This is the age when ones socializing skills develop and when this process is going horribly wrong, it bound to affect the rest of persons life. The child is like a clean paper and if somebody writes on it that you are a freak and an outcast, it takes some time to overwrite it. And you need years for that.
A lot of people were being bullied, a lot got over it, but Mika's experience was so much more hurtful... He's dyslexia worsened, he had a nervous breakdown and he stopped talking, remember? How many children you know that were traumatised like that?
He is just 23, very young and clearly hasn't dealt with that experience yet... and I can't blame him....
So, if he feels like talking about it, I'd say let him, as long as it helps...
I don't think he wants sympathy, it's just clearly playing on his mind and if you haven't noticed he says everything he thinks on interviews, he hasn't learned putting a mask on yet...
He came out at the other end a better person, he's learned a lot... I'm sure he appreciates friendship more than most people out there and he would never hurt or bully anyone in his life... He embraces life - he smiles a lot, he is happy.... but you can see pain behind that smile sometimes.... well, I can see it anyway.... And it kind of hurts me too.