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I can’t remember the last person I talked to besides my mother and my teachers. The other kids don’t seem to want to know me. I never did anything to them, always kept myself to myself. I sit at the front in classes whilst all the popular people sit at the back. The hurl paper balls sometimes but I don’t retaliate. “Just let it go John, it’s not worth getting worked up about” my counsellor told me. They didn’t make me go to a counsellor, I chose to. She’s the only one who listens to me. My mother cares but she doesn’t have time for me. She’ll ask how my day was and I will tell her “fine”. I don’t want to tell her what really happens, she’d only get upset.
When I talk to my teachers about my problems I get the feeling they’re laughing at me from behind their perfectly polished Gucci glasses. Shouting out deep inside “LOSER, LOSER!” I confide in them about my lack of friends, my inability to talk to girls and the anger I feel inside. “Aww, he’s being bullied” they coo, as if I am just another generic social misfit. NO. I’m not just another pity case, I won’t just go away if you douse me in your sympathy and blanket with your “it’ll be ok” comments.
I’m the kid in the school photograph who’s name nobody knows. Not significant enough to remember. I didn’t play for any sports teams or win any awards for my intellect. I haven’t made any ‘friends for life’ or even been on a ‘date’. I fill my mobile’s phonebook with fake numbers and fictitious names, just in case my mum ever gets suspicious. I’m frightened she’ll know the truth; I’m a loner. Admitting it is the hardest part, my counsellor says. But the future doesn’t look too bad now. I have someone to talk to, I understand myself, I accept who I am.
“Your childhood years are the best of your life” they say, I disagree.
so sue me