trying to force me to be her friend

I don't think they're trying, though. They're just unaware of us as a group and insensitive.

Well, I've had several work situations when coworkers purposefully tried to get me to engage...but it was more about "how can we get her to admit to how weird she is? Will she even notice we are making fun of her to her face?!" I'm not joking. Those were terrible times for me.

Ugh, how gross of them. I had stuff like that happen to me in middle school, but you expect adults to act better.

Yeah, you'd hope so. But its not true.

I know. I'm trying to work on the next part of something I'm writing...where I wanted to write about having faith in humanity but I'm not getting inspired.

So. Real.