I overheard two teachers talking about me when I was 16. I didn't get the whole conversation just the end. They were discussing how they'd never let their kids be my friend because I'm probably forcing people to associate with me. The word one of them used was "insidious"... which is really fucking specific with hindsight.

At the time I didn't really fully comprehend what they were saying. For what it's worth I wasn't a bully or anything. I mean, I was the one high functioning autistic kid in a school of maybe 200 pupils in the middle of nowhere England. No idea what they saw in me to think I was manipulating people into liking me. It stuck with me though and made me doubt a lot of the "friendships" I made back then. Talking to people I knew back then they didn't understand it either.