This is kind of dark but in 7th grade I was “assigned” a group of friends by the school psych and they were basically told to be friends with me but they didn’t like me at all 😭 Half of them had me blocked on social media which I never realized. It took me years to realize that I was the autistic kid shoehorned into a friend group by teachers like this possibility didn’t even occur (consciously) to me until I was like 21. I know such wonderful people now and have such amazing friends but consciously realizing that made me realize why I’ve had such difficulty opening myself up and making friends with people for so long cuz I Was that weird autistic guy