Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : I had a lot of mental health issues that I was dealing with in middle and high school that I didn’t know were mental health issues. Mostly because people were too busy laughing at my crazy Facebook posts that were, in hindsight, obvious calls for help. Including some people who were supposed to be really good friends and could have definitely pulled me to the side and asked me if something was wrong or why I seemed so weird and manic on social media but I was never that way when we would hang out or chill. They even took steps to make life a little harder for me sometimes by telling me obvious lies about why no one in the entire friend group was trying to hang out some days(surprise, everyone thought I was an idiot and didn’t want me to come over so they could talk about how “crazy” my last Facebook post was)

Long story short Ive been in the process of getting that help for a few years now and have since pretty much stayed away from social media in terms of interacting or commenting on people’s profiles and use it mostly to keep up with news (and memes). I also made new friends out of high school in college and feel like Im an overall more “stable” and “happy” person

I also now find it kind of cruel and cringe a little whenever I see people shit on each other’s social media accounts because at the end of the day the very idea of having a social media account is a silly and vain concept to begin with. But that’s just my opinion.

But now whenever I see my “old friends” from Highschool, or pretty much anyone from Highschool, in public I act as if they don’t exist. If i’m being honest a good amount of this behavior is out of anger but a lot of it is just from a feeling of betrayal. I really thought these people cared about me and everything unfortunately points to the contrary. I feel like I was just a court jester to these people. A crying clown.

TL;DR: I had “friends” and people in highschool who wouldn’t lift a finger to help me even though I was obviously showing signs of mental illness on social media for most of my early and late teens; now I pretend they don’t exist when I see them in public. I don’t know if i’m being an asshole for doing this