yup. my highschool freinds shunned me. the only people who i stayed freinds with from my old school was my weed dealer and his click.
i transferred into a finishing school full of kids who were once in programs, and i hung out with them alot.
but once i went to college, i found that all the kids from the finishing school were a bunch of nutcases (involved in hard drugs, serious crimes, just plain stupidity), and i broke off all contact with them.
Once in college, i found freinds. i found that there are ALOT of people who get sent away at some point, and they can relate. in many ways, people looked up to me. it was one of those "watch out, that kid has been through some shit, he's tough as fuck" kind of look. my "hard"ness, along with the leadership i learned in the programs, eventually led to me being the class leader in the fraternity i was pledging.
i dropped out of the frat during pledging - and although technically they are supposed to shun me for life for that, they treat me like one of their own, still. i explained how the pledge proccess was traumatic and causeing flashbacks due to it's simmilarity to what i went through at my program. so although i'm not even IN their frat technically speaking, i am treated like one of them.
