A teenager with Asperger’s syndrome has highlighted the torment of bullying in an online video.

Ryan Wiggins, 14, created a video as part of National Anti-Bullying Week and published it on YouTube.

The student from South Oxhey – now at Watford UTC – was forced to leave two primary schools and his first secondary after being bullied.

But the video, filmed using only a selfie stick, a broken tripod and his mother’s HD video camera, has almost 220,000 views.

It shows Ryan going through an ordinary day, highlighting the effect bullying has.

The 14-year-old’s voiceover while he is washing his face in the sink says: “Will I ever know what is like to look at my own reflection without wanting to look away because I feel ashamed and disgusted at who I really am? I guess not today, maybe tomorrow.”

Ryan’s mum, Jo Wiggins, said: “He wanted to show people all the emotions that people feel when they are being bullied – sadness, anger and being scared.

“He did not really talk about what he was going to include in the video, he just got on with it.

“Now Ryan is being inundated with people with asking advice and saying well done for making the video.

"It is good that the issue is out there. A lot of the people who are getting in touch are saying they went through similar things when they were younger, but it seems like they have not spoken to anyone about it.”

The teenager loves acting and singing and is also a patron for autism awareness charity Anna Kennedy Online.

“He left his first primary school. It is always great at first, but then the tormenting starts and he described it as a ‘woodpecker that doesn’t stop’, Ms Wiggins said.

“It was getting to the point where he would come home and go straight to bed. He did not want to talk and for a ten-year-old, that was really worrying for me.

“After he went to secondary school, it went really well at first. But it was like a pattern and things started to get worse and then one day, he came home and said he could not take it anymore.

“It wasn’t even that they were jealous, it was just because he is different.”

Addressing Ryan, one comment on the video said: “I am here to tell you one thing, it gets better. Truly it does. Don’t make the mistake I did at 16. Do not choose to give up. Your mind functions in a way those kids just will not understand.”