Am I paranoid?

[Lennonism]

I'm starting to this particular group of kids is working against me in secret.

I had good friends go to their group who now hate me. I don't know what the deal is. They all sit together, they all know each other, and they all dislike me. I think it's because I don't believe in God, because one day I was sitting at school and they turned around and asked me if I didn't believe in God, then started laughing.

I see them talking sometimes, and I get this weird feeling that they might be talking about me. I don't know if I'm subconsciously trying to make things more interesting, if I'm being paranoid, or if it's true. All I know is that I had people in that group that were my friends, and now they don't like me as much. I think the kids from my middle school, the popular kids, are trying to get all the other popular kids working against me so it'll be just like the old days.

I also came to school one day, and someone had messed with my locker. I had it set so that I could open it without entering the combination, but someone messed with it. I'd forgotten it because it had been so long since I used the combo, so I was late for class, and I got chewed out by one of the staff members.

Am I just going crazy?

[Requin]

Your not going crazy. But this is a problem. Your probably not going to like the answers that we give you, but you need to find some different friends. Because if there doing this to you, and there not being your friend just because you beleive in god is very shallow and really there just horrible people.

I hate it when people talk about you behind your back, and you need to do something.
Leave them, find some new friends, not ones so you can get back at them, just loyal, kind friends, proper friends.
Leave all the 'popular' kids behind and stick two fingers up to them. (Not literally, but that's optional ;-)) Do you know anyone who you can hang around with?
Hope that's helped a bit.

[Lennonism]

Your not going crazy. But this is a problem. Your probably not going to like the answers that we give you, but you need to find some different friends. Because if there doing this to you, and there not being your friend just because you beleive in god is very shallow and really there just horrible people.

I hate it when people talk about you behind your back, and you need to do something.
Leave them, find some new friends, not ones so you can get back at them, just loyal, kind friends, proper friends.
Leave all the 'popular' kids behind and stick two fingers up to them. (Not literally, but that's optional ;-)) Do you know anyone who you can hang around with?
Hope that's helped a bit.

Oh yeah, I have other friends. I was just sitting around, thinking "You know, all those people seem to be connected..."

[Requin]

So it's just one particular group?

[Lennonism]

So it's just one particular group?

Yeah. A very large group, but still, I think I can avoid them. I just thought it was weird.

[Requin]

Maybe you are being paranoid. But even so they sound right ********
for laughing at your religion. I'm not religious and make jokes all the time about religion and i don't beleive in it, but i wouldn't laugh at someone for being religious.
Just avoid and ignore them dude. :-)

[Avalikia]

It's not very paranoid to think an entire group is working against you when you're a teenager, because that literally happens sometimes. I know, I've been there. However, such groups usually have multiple "targets", so they may be talking about you at any given moment, or they could be talking about someone else. It's your standard clique setup - they get a false sense of belonging and acceptance if they decide that everyone in the group is awesome and everyone outside of it is not; what makes it false is that the people in these groups are not at all loyal to eachother because they are all secretly afraid that the group will turn on them, which usually turns out to be true. In all likelihood it's your former friends who decided to make you one of their targets, in an attempt to become cooler in the eyes of the group.

That they decided to use religion as their reason to harass you is only incidental. They could have used anything, really. You should see it for what it is: a rather immature attempt to make themselves feel better by making you feel bad. The best thing to do is completely ignore them - when you get upset that only encourages them. Instead of getting angry, pity them. (And they are definately deserving of pity; it's almost impossible to be in a group like that and have friends outside of it, and it's therefore almost impossible to leave a group like that without literally losing all your friends.) For example, if they say something meant to upset you, you could sigh, shake your head, and say "It's such a shame." If they ask what, say "That that makes you feel better about yourself." Then walk away. If you're able to take that sort of attitude whenever they try doing anything to you, then you become a very unentertaining person to target.