I was super awkward just because of being so sheltered. I was "home schooled" my whole life, and lived out in the country with no one but my family around. By "home schooled" I mean that my parents took me out of public school in elementary because they wanted to teach me about bible studies, but then after that never taught me again.

So anyway, I was terrible at social interactions. People would say things to me and I wouldn't know what to do. I'd say "heh..." And walk away. Every time. My parents would drag me to church and I'd wear big baggy clothes as if they were a shield and I'd sit in the back.

I was also dumb as hell because no one taught me anything, so I was afraid of opening my mouth saying something stupid.

Because I was so weird everyone at church treated me like shit and acted like I was just garbage. People would pick on me for various things. Church kids can be incredibly mean. I don't know if it's because they thought I was a loser or because they were oh-so-righteous and I was just a shit that wouldn't participate in their laying-of-hands and speaking in tongue prayers.

The adults were even bad because my stepdad was an abusive dick and I'd disobey him, so they all thought I was just a bad kid that couldn't follow the rules. They'd send me away to church camps to try to make me more like the good kids.

In the end when I was 16 I got a job pushing shopping carts, moved to the city with my sister, eventually studied a lot and got my GED, got an entry level job and worked my way up. I now make awesome money and overcame my speech problems through just talking to people at work over many years. Now when I get curious and inquire into the lives of people that used to pick on me, I see them on Facebook and they're all trashy, poor or got knocked-up really young.