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How do I successfully treat somebody passive aggressively?
Long story short, there has been this girl, let’s call her Carol, who has been constantly lowkey condescending me ever since we met. We met in Seventh Grade, and be being the twelve year old i was, failed to notice how she had been treating me. Previously, I had never been treated with any friendship-like respect up until Sixth Grade, so I still wasn’t quite sure how to identify when I was being treated badly by my peers.
Coral was and had always been a, “popular girl.” She was very stuck up, and it had never occurred to be how much of a toxic person she was up until Eighth Grade, where when I confronted her about how she had been lying to me about a recent problem, she had sent an essay about how she felt, “attacked.”
Many others have come to agree with me, but even though we are no longer, “friends,” she still will treat me and my little sister like this. I have stayed quiet for way to long, and I do know that two wrongs don’t make a right, but Jesus CHRIST am I sick of not doing a thing.
Now, any advice...? I am a Freshman, for any future questions.
4 Answers
- Kt SkycatLv 73 years agoFavourite answer
How many people are in your high school? I ask, because I went to a city high school of about 3000 students. It one day occurred to me that I did not have to pay any more attention to the "one" when there were 2998 students to talk to and hang out with. In high school, go talk to other people and leave her completely out of your social circle. There were a whole bunch of kids from my junior high school I never, ever saw again in high school. Our class schedules never meshed or over-lapped. I was in the marching band, choir and drama, and hung out with a completely different group of students -- new names, new faces, new attitudes. It was rather a shock to see a picture in my sophomore year yearbook of a couple kids from my junior high days being kids of current fashion -- and I had never seen them in the halls of the high school for months. I was at all the football games, all the choir and band concerts, and all of the drama productions, and never saw those kids, and I mean, EVER. One kid from my kindergarten class said hi to me on graduation day, and was, like, "why the heck did you never say hi to me sooner than graduation day?!?" So, for this ONE girl giving you grief, there are probably 100-1000 other students to meet and greet and make friends and hang out. You need not ever give this girl the time of day ever again if you choose. If she is snarky about you, so what? Next year, make friends with the new class of incoming freshmen and be the one older kid who was cool. Do the same your junior and senior year - make each new incoming class of freshmen more important than this ONE girl. And --- sheesh --- 500 other girls, talk to one of them instead. I did, and the boys, too. My group was made up of guys and girls and newcomers were welcome if they got our weird sense of humor. Leave this one girl alone and make friends with 500 others and things will certainly change after that! Give it a try and good luck! As a freshman, I had similar problems, but when I made friends with 200 other kids in the marching band, choir, and drama, those junior high kids stayed "junior high" and participated in nothing while I graduated with a list of activities and events and stories of band camp. And, out of my group of band friends, one was the drum major, one was the drum captain, one was the flute section leader, one was the co-section leader of the saxophones (me), one was the Auxillary and Tall flag Captain -- we were the power group my senior year and the lame junior high-acting kids were ---in very few pictures in my yearbook as a couple of my band friends were on yearbook staff and took pictures of us instead of the "zeros" who participated in nothing. Get active, get busy participating, and make friends with the 500 other kids and this one girl will soon have zero power over you from now on. Good luck.
- 3 years ago
Tell her she is a passive aggressive loser and you dont want to see or talk to her again. That's it. Stay away from her. Tell her to stop with the pity parties.
- ZedLv 63 years ago
Tell her you don't want to speak to her anymore or be her friend. Life is too short to worry about nasty bullies. Just tell her to go away and to not speak to you again.