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I had this one friend named "Samantha", I'll call her. She is a year younger than me but she skipped a grade so we were both in eighth grade last year. She was the "new girl" in fifth grade and we instantly hit it off. She, back then, asked me out and we started dating. Now, we were immature and we broke up since the relationship was toxic, as I had a stubborn, rude personality and she had a sarcastic, mean, and biting one, like saying "Well duh, you think?"/"You're so dumb"/"You'll never survive without me, because you're like a kid" (because of my autism). I was a kid, but that was beside the point. I'm still a kid, I'm only 15.

Anyway, Samantha used to be this energetic lesbian who quoted movies and memes all the time and became a super Christian straight girl who wants a Christian husband and Christian kids. She used to give me stuff all the time, and while she would still hang out with my bullies, even stood up for me despite thinking I was "annoying". However, whenever I talked to her or asked if she wanted to talk, she said "no", so i stopped talking to her because she said she didn't want to because she was always busy.

Well, Samantha became discriminatory, though not as much as the others, due to the crowd she hung out with. They all despised me because I was different. She was pretty anti-transition too and claimed the time where she used to be a lesbian and later a trans boy was "just a phase".

Here's what I have trouble with. They would always run up to each other and join conversations with each other, but it was somehow not okay when I did the same thing? One time, Samantha's best friend "Lia" told me Samantha was upset, but when I asked why, she said "MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS IDIOT! SERIOUSLY, YOU'RE JUST A BRAT PEOPLE PRETEND TO FEEL BAD FOR!!!" and proceeded to say mean things behind my back, thinking I couldn't hear, to Lia.

My family said that's not "just mad" behavior, and that's how someone who hates you acts.

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[–] Beth@piefed.social 10 points 5 hours ago

That is hateful behavior. Family is right.