I find myself frequently daydreaming about the way I was treated in school. I hate my imagination sometimes!
I always thought that the people in my school bullied me because I wasn't popular. I was basically the real-life equivalent of the tv show scenario where I'm an unpopular kid in school with only one or two friends, and I try (and fail) to become friends with literally anybody else.
Imagine something like this:
Popular kid: I'm not respecting you because you're not popular.
Nerdy kid: You have to be respected to be popular, not be popular to be respected.
Popular kid: Shut up nerd!
*Popular kid shoves nerdy kid in locker*
Why don't people understand that nerdy people make the best friends? I would have had far more friends if people took the time to actually get to know me.
I'm so glad and grateful to have more friends on this forum and at my art group than I ever had in school.