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Input: I feel so childish for having to ask this.

I’m in the last year of my A levels (17) and met a new girl to our school during a biology field trip. She seemed nice enough and I quickly became friends with her as she seemed alone and my friend with me appeared to be avoiding me.
It turns out she was not avoiding me but my new friend (I’ll call her A from here on).

It turns out that A isn’t well liked in her house (boarding house) and is considered really weird. I’ll admit that I can see why, she obviously has some undiagnosed anxiety and maybe paranoid delusions as she come out with really odd questions and is constantly thinking that everyone is out to get her. Apparently she was really difficult to room with because of this and now she really only has one friend other than me.

Now we’re back for another term I’m trying to balance keeping my old friends, none if which like her ( a few r e a l l y don’t like her) and being nice to her because I don’t want her to feel alone. 

She is getting bullied. Not by anyone I’m close to and she’s not told me anything directly so there’s not much I can do but try to keep the staff informed. A struggles to understand normal conversations and so she is really gullible. The girls tend to take advantage of that and persuade her to do really weird things which only make her paranoia worse when she realises she’s been tricked. I’ve tried to persuade her to go to the school counsellor but A is convinced that the counsellor is also just being mean to her and now A won’t listen to any of her advice.

So you can probably see why I want to help and stay her friend but whenever I’m with her, I can’t be with all my other friends because A really irritates them.

It’s really childish but I’ve had to say stuff like that she can’t come to lunch with me and that makes me feel awful because I then see her eating alone at house. I’m having to avoid her in between lessons as well now as my friend are finding it weird that I hang out with her so much.

In short, AITA for trying to avoid her, and if so what can I do to help?


trying to avoid a girl in my year despite the fact she has very few friends