^^True this. If I didn't want to work in a group because the other kids picked on me, I wasn't granted the luxury of working on my own. I just got the standard lecture on how I needed to learn to get along with people even if I didn't like them.

Well, of course I didn't like them. They were mean little snots.

But that wasn't addressed. I was the socially awkward penguin here, so it was my fault. Extrovert, good. Introvert, bad. "Stuck-up." "Anti-social." "Thinks she's too good for us." "It isn't healthy to stay in your room. You need to get out and be with people." Yeah, I got all of that. It didn't matter how cruel and unkind the others were to me either. I was the one who was unacceptable, because I was introverted.