I'm going through the same kind of thing DZ (Only Minus the Antisexual
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I no longer go to school but I stil manage to see my friends as for your friend ditching you I can kind of relate my best friend Ryan started blowing me off to hang out with the "Cool Kids". What I did was get my mom to enroll me in some IT clases and I made lots of friends there. you should take a class about something that interests you sure way to make friends.