text: why is it that when one is different, quiet, and minding his/her own business, people pick on them? let me explain. i will use my life for example. when all the other kids were talking, playing, and having fun, i was reading, doing my work, and daydreaming. i can be a very quiet person to be around (only if you are a family member or a very close friend, will one see my talkative side, but even that can have limits.) girls my age can talk for hours and hours on the phone or regularly, but me, if one puts me on the phone or just talks to me, the conversation may go like this: hello, how are you, i'm fine! and then...  mean, i am not an eloquent person. when other peers my age are concerned with relationships, tv shows, sports, etc., i are usually concerned with world events, cultures, things like that. now, i know that , being human, i am going to have some adversaries in life, but i have had more enemies than i deserve and often when i was done wrong, there were no friends to support me, no one to trust or rely on. i was just trying to mind my own business. why the hate? do you know? maybe they are trying to bring you down, to get you on their level.   if i were you, i would participate in school activities. people like people who get excited about the same things they are excited about.   i know you want to be an introvert and curl into yourself, but you should peek out once in a while. people are sensitive and they may be resentful because you refuse to talk to them. they will think you are stuck up.* so, go to a football game, watch a tv show that they like. show your peers that you care about their world, too.  * well, on the flip side, you can't do things just so people will like you. people can dislike people for no reason at all.