roof over my head , good music and made in USA bb ocbd ' s lol ! <| sep |> 26 years later and still salty . Maybe in another 26 years you will still be talking about your 48 team that almost denied Colorado the national championship . <| sep |> I was bullied from about 3 rd grade to the last week of 7 th grade . I moved to a different city where I attended middle school , and it was essentially a clean slate . I still hung out with what you could consider the nerds , but for whatever reason , the popular kids were cool with me . So I pretty much cruised through middle school and high school somewhere in the middle of the social ladder . I would say I improved the most just by constant social interaction . You learn what works and what doesn ' t , and you learn what to use to your advantage to make people feel better around you . For me , it was humor . Really , the only way to get better at social interaction is to keep interacting . I ' m now at a point where I ' m comfortable talking with most strangers . I ' m still inherently untrusting of those who seem popular , but I function regardless . It ' s important to make up for the social interaction you ' ve missed , even if you stumble and fall a few times . People who weren ' t shy stumbled plenty at a young age and already have a good grasp on what works . Us introverts , however , have to start from the beginning . And while that ' s frightful , it ' s the only way to get better