It was tough, lonely at times sure, but I did have friends tho I didn't fit in my class in general.

Pretty much every teacher asked me Why I'm so quiet, mom and dad at times also did and I didn't rly have any answer, it just kind of was.

Kinda like some people are naturally more outgoing and social, I was naturally less, there's rly nothing to question it or weird about it when I think about it but I was so baffled thinking it's so bad, why is everyone questioning me, sure if you don't grow out of it it can be a bad thing.

I did get verbally bullied about it sometimes but I shook it off. All the questions really just made it worse. It's a stage that will partly or fully naturally go away.

I feel like social isolation was definitely a huge impact on me being a quiet kid. A bunch of coincidences happened to leaving me being a bit of an outcast or a lone wolf (still kind of am xD) - I don't have anyone in my neighbourhood that's a similar age, usually parents have friends and they have kids u can meet but my parents didn't rly hang out with their friends, didn't fit in with my class, always thought that my parents don't understand me, my sister was always with her friends or in college so I literally didn't have many people to talk to and work on devving social skills xD