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I can relate so much to this that it's almost strange. There are a lot of introverted people on wikis like this, because introverts would rather stay home on their computers while extroverts are out... doing stuff.

Even though I am still pretty young (I won't say my exact age), I can say that the problem with me is that I overanalyze things too much, which could sometimes keep me from making friends.

Prepare to read a lot.

When I was in preschool, I had two friends. One I will call Aubree and the other I will call Bentley. They were twins, brother and sister. I was completely antisocial, and I was terrified of the game tag because whenever we played, whoever was 'it' would basically leap on the other person and make a roaring sound. I know, it's stupid, but I was in preschool, ok?

When I went to kindergarten, the two started to act strange. To resent and ignore me somehow. Having no social skills, I just didn't react. I didn't know what was happening.

During recess, all I would do is walk around and cry because I didn't know how to make friends. The adults who walked around during recess would sometimes try to comfort me, but nothing worked. All I got were stares from the other kids who could play.

The kids who HAD friends.

During the end of kindergarten, I met my best friend.

We'll call her Kitty.

I also met someone else who I would become accomplices with. I'll call her Evelyn.

-Time skip to many years later-

Evelyn eventually left our school to join a school for gifted kids. We missed her, but I had more friends now, and we had a small group of about five people.

After that, I took a gifted test. And I passed.

When I came to that school, however, I found that Evelyn had gotten two more friends. I tried to be friendly to them, but for some reason, they just seemed to dislike me.

I quote them:

"Yeah. Way with the science talk (sarcastiacally)."

"You have a rabbit? I have two dogs. They'd probably kill it easily."

"Since you're the newest member of our group, you have to be the lowest ranked (apparently, they had a ranking system)."

None of these were meant in a humorous fashion, unlike what I do when I joke about stuff that can be offensive to my friends. Whenever I do that, I always laugh afterwards to make sure they know it's a joke.

Another thing. These two girls never laughed.

I left that school the next year.

The school I went to now was the same one I went to earlier.

When I came back, I couldn't believe what my five friends had done to each other.

My best friend Kitty had gotten a new friend, and another girl in our group thought of her as a "jerky friend stealer," the two girls who had been bffs were fighting and giving terrible insults that got one of them sent home early, and none of them seemed to care about me anymore.

Except for Kitty.

We are still best friends to this day.

After that, I met many new friends. All of them are some of the best I've ever had, although I do get teased about being short a lot. I like being teased about stuff now though.

I'm used to it.

Anyways, I really hope you begin to feel better about yourself. So many people kill themselves from depression like this, and that's why I don't understand bullying. By bullying someone as a kid, you might take their life later on. I think it's terrible for someone to think that they're no good at anything or not qualified to be someone good. But everyone is good at something. Just because you're the odd one out doesn't mean it's a bad thing. No one should ever, ever feel this way about themselves, especically not because of other people, who are only telling them that because of their own insecurities.

Best hopes to you, and everyone else with this mindset.