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I despised high school. Looking back, it was my undiagnosed social anxiety kicking in. But being cooped up with a bunch of people all day, given tasks then judged on it, working with class mates on projects.

It made me withdraw and try to avoid everyone, which in turn made everyone dislike me. I was heavily bullied and made fun of. I was very passive, so I never tried to stop it.

It was just torture. Everyone else hated the classes, but that was my only break. Having everyone be forced to sit silently and focus on something other than each other. Class was easy, I spent every class daydreaming, half asleep, and sketching pictures and still outperformed most everyone else. Even won some kind of award for being one of the best performing students in the district and I never even paid attention. It just made them dislike me even more. One other person at my school got the same award and she was furious that someone like me got it too. I just couldn't win.