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i have no friends, girls hate me. there is a whole group of people at my school who hate my guts, my family is absolutely insane, and i have very low self esteem. what should i do?

You're 16....IT GETS BETTER.

When you're as young as you are and only spend most of your time in one place, school it can often turn out this way. If a large group that thinks they have any power over you and make you feel like less send out these signals to other people/kids they become discouraged from befriending you since they don't want to be in the same position as you are. And girls often follow this trend and avoid those who are "unpopular" or bullied because they concern themselves with image and therefor act ill willed towards you.
This happened to me as well when I was in your age, but it was a bit messed up since I was always with the "cool" kids but some of them in that group did not like me since I guess I was way to honest and didn't want to befriend most of them since they were morons. And the same thing happened with girls, they were really hostile towards me and acted like I was a cancer even when I asked the most simplest questions like "when are we starting class?". On the other hand some girls were crazy about me and often screamed out in the corridors after me to come hang out and do s**t.
Why it was like this was because the girls that were friends with the boys that i didn't approve of or didn't care to make friends with because they were asses told the girls they knew that they didn't like me and therefor those girls avoided to befriend me/ be kind to me. As for the rest were people who were the rest. I hanged out with everyone, and that made people mad and irritated with me. If some "cool" clown saw me joking around with a less popular kid they would later try to pick a fight with me and attempts to freeze me out from groups.
It's just how it works, people in your age are very insecure. But this is nothing that I figured out years later, I knew it at the time so I knew I just had to do what had to be done. Stand up for myself and ignore the negativity. Ofc this led fights and bullying but I fought back and stood my ground, and it payed off and made me more secure in my choices and confidence.
I'm not a total hard ass nor aggressive person so the fighting and quarrels did scare me and upset me but what doesn't kill you,... right?
My family were and still are a bunch of semi ignorant individuals but I have never taken much to heart of what is said at home because I know why they are said and I give them a free pass.
If you give in to all of this the outcome will be that you will doubt yourself and insecurity will follow, making you one miserable SOB. If you let this get to you to much it can harm you for the rest of your life or up until the point were stupid thoughts like suicide pops up in your brain.
School for me was more of a social warfare then learning, all my learning I did on my free time and my grades were mediocre. Except art, I Aced that s**t.

Stand up for yourself even if it's scary as hell.

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I have somethings to say that can help with the friends, low self esteem and people hating your guys parts. With girls its hard because the younger they are the more insecure they are meaning they will reject anyone who isnt fitting the "cool" demographic. The older (or rather more mature) they get they see you for your character and abilities rather than what you look like or how "cool" you are. I noticed the maturity levels in girls change from HS and college- I had no luck with girls in HS but in college I had some success because they liked my easy going, pure and caring personality which was refreshing from fake wanna be jocks and frat boys. just be genuine.

I felt backed into a corner like are right now when I was your age. Heck im only 4 years ahead of you but im telling you it does get better with time. You need to strengthen you identity and not give a sh*t about trying to conform. Obviously conform to some degree, try not to stim in public, do not wear outrageous clothing (ex. say harry potter robes) to school, and be courteous to everyone. but do not conform to others in terms of your interests and what makes you, you. I made that mistake and all I did was people please and 'steal' interests from ppl so that we could be friends. That left me feeling empty when I wasnt around them because essentially i was just stealing a part of them and pretending it was mine. Once I became comfortable with who I am and what my interests are no matter how weird they seem, I feel more at ease with myself and now know what kinds of people to befriend (people similar to myself in interest or people who think like me regardless of their interests). The first kind being my best friends and the latter type being my "ins" with mainstream society since they are very social people. Strengthen your identity, once you do you can start to view rejection with the thought, "well too bad for you, you just missed out on being able to be friends with me". View yourself as something special, but do not let that turn into thinking of yourself as above everyone else- that is how anti social personality disorder or sociopathy begins.

My closest two friends are not the type of guys you would expect to be friends with someone like me. They are both tall, good looking and muscular - basically the types that girls throw themselves at . Some ppl sometimes quietly talk among themselves as to why guys like that would hang out with a guy like me. Its because they stuck around long enough to see my character rather than for my physical appearance or social skills, I stick by and support them when they need it no matter that and they recipricate, i guess they have never had friends who would take a bullet for them before- I would. They say im one of the most genuine people they know because I do not give a sh*t about how I come across to people anymore and can be as weird as I want with em. Once you prove to someone that you are real, absolutely truthful and only want them best for them they will stay (if they are smart).

You just need to find the right people, they exist somewhere you just need to find them.