I feel out of place in my social life, is this normal?
I feel like no one at school likes me, and I came to know from several friends of mine that it's actually true. I thought I was popular, but apparently I'm...unpopular? I've known this for a while, but hearing that people are actually thinking I'm a bad person or have a bad character is getting to me. I'm neurodivergent (that's why I'm posting this on this sub!) and have always been a weird kid who spent too much time on the internet and thus had weird secret interests as a kid, but I don't think this is really justifiable. I struggle to read social cues sometimes (not always, I'm hyper-aware of moods and shit because I'm also kinda traumatized) so I'm genuinely confused. I ran on the belief that whether positive or negative, attention is attention and there will always be a mix of the two, but hearing it bluntly and directly from friends just hits differently. When this many people share an opinion, does the cause really lie with them... or inward? Why could this be?
Posted Mar 2, 2026, 4:06 PM UTC