It seems like most of the people I hang out with treat me with little to no respect. It wasn't always like this, when I first started hanging out with some of them they seemed really nice and seemed to enjoy my company. Ever since Fall and Spring semester though some mean people have joined the little group of friends I have and whenever I'm around this new group spends their time attacking me. Telling me I'm ugly, or telling me to shut up whenever I start talking (which is barely).

I'm not the only person they do this to, they do it to two other people. I think it's completely ridiculous that because of one or two new additions everyone whom I thought were my friends now insult me whenever they have a free moment. I feel like I'm hanging out with a bunch of sheep.

I just want to be somewhere, where even if people don't like me they respect me enough not to say anything. I feel like I'm hanging out with a bunch of immature little kids, when I'm 21 years old.

After wanting to share hugs,
my first thought for you was and still is, Please Please Please respect yourself enough to walk away.
I know it isn't easy and can be lonely.  
Treat yourself as you want to be treated.  Treat youself with the care and honoring and respect you want from others.  Show them how you deserve to be treated in how you honor, respect and care for yourself.  Yes of course, treat all others with the same care and respect.  
Sometimes it is just best to walk away.  Sometimes it is better to be with yourself rather than be with people who aren't kind to you.
Take good care of yourself!!
You deserve the best.  

Yea Tourbi said right.Give yourself respect.i don't think it would be wise to hang around with people who don't show you respect.Let them know about how u feel.if they don't take it seriously then i don't think they should be called freinds.You can be among 10 people but feel lonely,rejected and you can also feel happy being with yourself.well i am not saying you should be alone.Find friends that deserve your respect.

dhav

ps Tourbi your flower smiling is really cute.i have a bunny holding the smiling flower.lol  

Hey pinkspikes,

They took the words out of my mouth. So I'll just add. I'm not very fond of sheep, but goats and cows are very friendly. LOL but true. I prefer cats.

Most people your age are going to act 2 until life hits them, thank your (   ), that you are already there and ready to move on.


A HUGE HHHUUUGGG, POSITIVE ENERGY and LOVE to you.  Hang in there.

Karlene

Dear me! these forums are full of young people like yourself having trouble with their peers. Have you not seen those other posts? It makes my heart bleed that people are treated so cruelly during their formative years (and that includes early infancy). How do we expect to get balanced adults after all that trauma?

The worst of it, Pin, is that those ages are precisely when we give more importance to what our peers think of us: exactly when they are more thoughtless and their opinions not very solid, since their personalities are still in the making and they all tend to follow the leader of a pack. But, unlike animal pack leaders, ours are the most insecure: their egos are built upon the putting down of others. When they have no one to push around, they are nothing.

So please listen to our wise Tourbi and all who came behind. If you have outgrown that phase, leave them behind. Let them catch up to you if they can: they still have some learning to do. Do not waste your time: there are wonderful people awaiting you out there, even if they are not exactly your age or your same background. The world is (thankfully) huge and varied.

You don't have to put up with anything: turn away, it's not worth it. And enjoy all our hugs, like these