Sounds like you stopped cultivating your interests and hobbies to make people like you, or at least do not disdain you.

Sounds to me like a "you" problem.

I imagine they weren't holding you at gun point preventing to go outside or study spinning balls of gasses, you decided at some point to not pursue your interests to conform.

I was bullied too, because I was a Sicilian boy, a mafioso, growing up in a different land, because I had a dandruff problem and an acne problem, because I used to wear glasses, because I played videogames back when it wasn't a cool habit, rather a basement dweller one, because I had a round belly.

That didn't stop me to be me or to fight back, I kicked everyone's ass one by one until the bullying stopped and I truly believed that it made me stronger.

I showered more often, used Topexan for my face, lost weight and made them see what a Sicilian guy can do, than a non Sicilian guy cannot.

It is not up to others to protect your feelings, otherwise you are no different than the woke mass retardation.

Plus I said mild. Violence as an offense is never the answer, but as defense is one helluva answer.

Non c'è bisogno che te lo spieghi in italiano, se vuoi capire, capisci, senno 'zzi tuoi.

Peace and love 😁