friend issues

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friend issues

friend issues

Hey everyone I thought this thread would be helpful bc for me, it's like i have new friend issues every week. And im homeschooled. Heh...

Rn for me its this one girl whos a year older than me, and she just keeps leaving me on read. Then whenever i ask her if shes free to hang out (about every week and a half) she says, oh srry im not free busy with testing... I don't understand why, but it's probably because im the most desperate friend ever. Or maybe thats not why! I just....wish people would understand me more. My anxiety already makes me feel like all my real friends hate me, or think im weird, and..welp, you know, thats awesome! 

Anyone else feel this way? Because i really hope im not alone. Ughhhhh

 

submitted by ~Amarillis~, age 12 eons, Hills of Smog
(May 5, 2023 - 3:32 pm)

Aaaahhhhh.

For most of elementary school, I didn't really have friends. I was fine with it, then, but now, I wish I had changed that. In fourth grade I became friends with another girl, who I'll call Tulip. I was good friends with her through fifth grade. In March of fifth grade, Covid and quarantine hit. After that, Tulip and I didn't communicate much. In the summer after, I started to become friends with her more, and I also became friends with another girl Tulip knew, who I'll call Poppy. I remained good friends with Tulip and Poppy through 6th grade. I was homeschooled, and Poppy and Tulip were doing distance learning. Then I started going to middle school for 7th grade, and Poppy and Tulip did too, but they went to a different school. I started school in August. I didn't have the courage to sit down with a group of people until October. So, they were already good friends. For the rest of 7th grade, and through 8th grade, most of them have been nice enough. Not intentionally welcoming, but plenty nice. Except one girl, who I will call Zinnia. Zinnia was nice to me at first, but then started excluding me. And all the other girls seem to like her, and it seems to me that she goes out of her way to exclude me from things. I've confronted her about a few of them, but she acts like it was accidental and promises to change, but she never does. And I want to be with friends that all welcome me, but I don't want to let go of all my other friends. 

So there's my rant. 

submitted by Avara, she/her
(May 15, 2023 - 8:41 pm)