When i was 8 i think. I had a crush on my cousin's best friend. We were in class together, i told her i loved her and the rejection was brutal, not in the moment ,since i said it was a joke when i realized she was gonna reject me, but she started spreading the rumor, she started avoiding me, if id want to talk to her shed run away, so i became lonely, i started getting bullied then, id get into a lot of fights but having my cousin in class it was bearable. I already knew i was ugly, but i thought it would improve growing up and i still had male friends so it didnt make me too miserable. But then at 11 i got to middle school , i had no friends and there was a rumor that i was "insane" so nobody would speak to me, rhey would act scared treating me like the classic weird kid stereotype , scared id snapp and do something bad. I was non responsive to the bullying for almost a year and started fighting back the seconr and third year, they were genuinely hell. My moment of realization wasnt really because of my looks, since i abandoned the idea of ever having a girlfriend very early , but i started thinking it was gonna be over at 12 , i realized i was never gonna have real friends or be happy, and that i was too autistic to interact like a normla person. I held on to this belief until covid gave me a break during hs. Then trouhht online practice i got more comfortable talking to people, and i became able to communicate with others , also in real life too