 When I'm friends with someone, I put my heart and soul into the friendship. I do small things to show them that I care. People do not appreciate this. A previous friendship ended because I was "texting her all the time" and "always following her" First of all, I was texting her maybe once a week AT MOST, and I usually waited for her to text first (I almost never contact people first because I'm scared of annoying them) Second of all, we did run into each other a lot at school, but in no way was I purposely following her. Our school's building is relatively small, so of course you run into the same people a lot. If we were going to the same place, I might strike up a conversation with her, but she never gave any indication that I was annoying her, in fact, she seemed to enjoy our conversations.

One day, we got into a huge fight. It didn't get physical, but there was a lot of yelling. Later she revealed how much of an asshole she is by lying to our principal that I was stalking her and that I assaulted her. And he BELIEVED her. Luckily, they couldn't arrest me because I was only 16 at the time.

That is not the only time I've been called clingy for doing what I consider to be normal things that friends do. Maybe I come on strong or something. Or I'm just drawn to the most emotionally unavailable people on the planet. But now I've become very afraid of clinging to people, and it's preventing me from getting close to people.