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Chances are extremely unlikely that your friends intended to hurt you. Chances are it wasn't their decision to make. You shouldn't hold them accountable. Also, they probably said nothing about it to you because they felt that if they did they'd just be rubbing salt in a wound and making things worse. Them saying nothing was probably more about trying to protect your feelings vs. make you feel bad.

Honestly, ask your friends. They'll tell you. If they're truly your friends they'll tell you the things you don't want to hear. Just accept them as their honest feedback and an opportunity to learn and grow moving forward.

Why do you assume the reason is something the OP does or doesn't do in social interaction? It could be, but it could also have little/nothing to do with the OP's interaction skills or behaviors and everything to do with the people that excluded them. I'm not suggesting that those people are deliberately being mean or anything -- maybe they just don't click with the OP and don't see the relationship with OP as a friendship or something like that. You can do nothing wrong in social interaction and still fail to make friends with people.

I don't think they intended to hurt me, no. But they noticed I was hurt and did nothing. Maybe they did feel a little pity (and who wouldn't want that to be the primary thing people feel about them), but they most likely don't have much experience with rejection, and felt they could have just as much fun without me, so why bother asking the host to invite me? Also, they didn't avoid the topic entirely, they talked about it in front of me, but avoided being overt. For instance, whispering "What are you wearing to that thing?" to each other.
And I might not be close with the girl who organized the party, but I know the others well enough to know that some of them aren't close with her either. We don't just attend classes together, we have lunch, study, sometimes go shopping or to dinner together.
Anyway, thank you all for the support. I think I'll avoid being overly dramatic but probably I won't seek them out anymore.
I already changed a lot for people, and for the better, but no more. I want to remain me.

It's not up to them to do anything about you feeling hurt. Only you can control how you feel. Thoughts dictate emotions. Only you can control your thoughts. If you thought differently about the situation, you'd feel differently. ie Exact same scenario... but if you thought this was a great opportunity for some solitude while they're all playing with icing, you'd feel differently about it. If you thought this was something you didn't care to attend anyways, you'd feel differently about it. If you thought this was a great learning opportunity to talk to your friends about later and find out why you were excluded and how you could avoid that next time, you'd feel differently about it. Your friends cannot control your thoughts, but with intent and practice You can.

Then you also choose to accept the reactions you get from others, even if that's not being invited to things. Don't get all upset about it if you know you're unwilling to do anything differently.

Of course it's not up to them. It's not up to anyone to do anything selfless for anybody else. That's why the world is the way it is.

I would concentrate on my studies.

I feel you'll meet your true friends through your shared desire to achieve great things through hard work.

These people you are hanging out with are only "shopping buddies," in my opinion.

I wouldn't exclude those kind of people from my life--but I wouldn't get upset about how they treat you, either. Perhaps these people sense that you're a "different animal," and that you don't like frilly things.

I don't believe they meant to hurt you.

Correct. Of course it's not up to them to control your thoughts & emotions. Only you can do that. Once you realize this, you'll be happier for it instead of being codependent on others for happiness.

I'm codependent on all seven.X billion of you and I don't really want to spend my life working to change that fact - I'd rather concentrate on keeping the biosphere in at least a semi-serviceable state of repair and informing folks of what's going on in the world. In layman's terms all this boils down to the singular question of how & where to direct one's energy.