Your pain is real and your pain is intense.  School is a place of special torture for you.  You don’t feel emotionally safe among your peers.  You wait for someone to make a degrading comment or not even notice you at all.  You feel as though nobody would care if you simply stopped showing up at school.  You wish to disappear.  The deep suffering you experience because of your differences leads you to a place of hopelessness.  Your spirit is at risk of breaking because you are socially rejected.

I know it’s hard, but see if this one little thing can help in even a small way:

Helping teens grow and families improve connection,

Lauren Goodman, MS, MFT