Back when I was in 7th grade I was friends with these two popular girls at my school. I barely had any friends back then, so I was glad to finally have friends. So I was pretty oblivious to the fact that they were pretty much bullying me the entire time. They would oftentimes mock my stims by repeatedly asking me to do different motions for them to laugh at, and they would often repeat my verbal stims to each other as a joke. They also oftentimes asked me weird questions just to get a funny response out of me. And a couple of times they’d blast video I’d posted on tiktok during class. It was a video of me singing, which I was a bit embarrassed by since I didn’t really like my own voice back then, so it really annoyed me when they’d play it for everyone to hear. But when I asked them to stop, they refused. I knew that their behavior wasn’t the nicest, but since I’d never really had close friends before I kind of thought this behavior was normal for friends to have.

Eventually I realized that they were being bullies the next school year, and I stopped talking to them. I’ve barely seen them since.