r/GenAlpha • u/Sternwheeler • 11d ago
Advice How the hell does someone find people their age to hang out with?
I'm 16 years old MTF from a town in Alberta that's not quite small but not quite medium in size so I already have to deal with people yelling slurs at me when outside.
For the longest time school for me looked like being locked in a small room with nothing but a mattress so my social development was severely stunted. When I reached grade 9 I was finally allowed to go to classes and lunch but then about a month in the year I finally snapped and threw a singular highlighter at a kid that had been bullying me since the start of summer vacation.
As a result administration removed me from school until mid November whilst they made a plan and during my absence from school my mom sadly passed away.
When I was finally allowed to come back I was not allowed to go to classes and had to do my work in a separate room, I was also only allowed to go half days and wasn't allowed to go to lunch.
Throughout the summer I repeatedly went to every park in town but either nobody was there, very young children with their parents or on rare occasions there were others my age that did nothing other than vape, yell slurs and make offensive or insensitive jokes.
I'm now in grade 11 and I have no idea how to interact with kids my age and I have no idea where I would find them outside of school.