Molly, you're a sweetheart. I've been really enjoying reading your posts since you came back and seeing you open up a little more and make an effort to interact with us. You are a bright, lovely young woman. <--- Please remember that this is my opinion of you and that what I say next, I say out of love and experience...
I'm weird. I'm silly, and kind of incompetent in a lot of areas, and I'm clumsy and awkward and I've never been like the thin, pretty girls I felt surrounded by in school. People made fun of me, called me names, ignored me, all of that. And man, sometimes it hurt so bad that I would be crying as I walked home from school, and I would pretend to be sick the next day so I wouldn't have to see those people again.
It's different, now that I'm older...and it gets easier the older I get. People still make fun of me- sometimes it's my own family. And sometimes my feelings still get hurt. But I'm also realizing that some of the people who make fun of me...they aren't intending to hurt me, they don't know if they're hitting a sore spot, and it's MY choice to get offended...or not. It's MY choice to let it hurt me or not. I'm ok with being different, and I'm even ok with people poking fun at me.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, not everyone who "picks" on us is being malicious, and we save ourselves a lot of unnecessary pain by choosing not to take so much so personally.
Also, Maxwel is one of our resident goofballs...he wasn't being mean, or even serious. Most of the time in this forum, if someone teases you, it's just a way of interacting with you...it means people notice you. It's not a bad thing
...I don't know if any of that was helpful, but it was supposed to be