I’m sorry but idk if I just don’t understand this post. You say you are a senior, yet in your post you say “I thought people were more mature after high school” and after looking at your history, you are in high school? So kinda confused on this aspect of the post of if you are/aren’t in high school. You also talk about having anger issues in the past on your profile, imo you should use this of all things when being confronted by people like this. If you flee, hide or run from every possible situation, you will be destined to feel this way your entire life. The more and more I challenged people on the basis of my stutter, the more and more confident I became and cared less about what people would say. If you don’t stand up for yourself, nobody will. Anger was never a weakness it was just knowing not how to control it or who to use it on. Even if you get in trouble, a detention or lecture from a teacher is better than feeling this way. Funny enough, I worked in a psychiatric hospital and the ones there who weren’t psychotic were genuinely some of the nicest people I’ve ever met. I worked with kids 13/14 up to people who were 80+ and I was never laughed at by any age group. It’s not about age, it’s about maturity and possible traumatic life experiences that make us build empathy for others. Needless to say many at your age have not gone through anything particularly bad, nor understand. So if anything, pity them because every dog will have their day and no one makes it out of life unscathed.