when did you notice your social life sucked?

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About the third week of kindergarten, when I recited the alphabet before anyone else could. I also counted up to 700 by 7's, named every state and its capital, and demonstrated my ability to do simple multiplication and division.

On the way home, a bunch of kids jumped me and beat me up for "being a smartie" and "making them "look like dummies". That was 1962, and my home-town school district did not have any advanced education program, and the nearest one was 30 miles away and charged too much for tuition.

From then on, my social life declined considerably. Even the teachers argued over who was going to get me the next year.

grade 7...I was confused before, but didn't get that they hated me.

I believe that I was [u]aware[/i] of it once I started school, but it didn't even occur to me that being a loner was a bad thing until I got to grade 7/8. After that the few friends I had kind of kicked me to the curb, and by grade 11 it just got to the point where I didn't even feel like making the effort to be social anymore and became more or less mute.

Sometimes it bothers me, but I'm pretty happy (and used to) keeping to myself now.

Apparently when I was in kindergarten, my teacher kept calling on me to spell out words like 'cat' and 'big', but I refused to do so. She put up with that for a month or so before she finally approached my parents and asked them to encourage me to be more "involved". According to my mom, when she asked me what the problem was I told her that I didn't want to waste my time spelling tiny baby words. Don't actually remember any of it, but I also learned from the 'rents that I continued to put myself in similar situations until my classmates started to both verbally and physically attack me.

I've never really seen myself as being overly smart or anything, but that same teacher saw me when I was 13 and told me that I was supposed to skip a grade or two, and the only reason it didn't happen was because I was too quiet/not developed enough socially. Ah well?