Do you become distant with a person you start to like?

I do, definitely. It's due to being bullied at school, I still can't accept that people like me so I don't even bother with people that I do like because my effort isn't going to be reciprocated.

nah you have to, what if she feels the same? tbh in the nicest way, thats pathetic cause girls arent supposed to make the first move and if you like someone enough you have to put ur self-consciousness second

You start blanking them and whatnot?

Traditionally girls aren't supposed to make the first move, traditionally girls aren't supposed to pay for their own drinks, traditionally men aren't supposed to do the ironing, see where I'm going? Times have changed old bean. It isn't pathetic, it's an irrational behaviour that's been instilled.

Im just saying this because im in a situation where I really like this boy I used to be friends with. Like Im crazy about him. I don't think I'm so great, I'm pretty shocked tbh, but 3 boys have recently told me they like me and they're behaving in a lot more different way than him so I'm just trying to forget right now. I asked him if he wanted to do something with me and he turned me down, sometimes he's friendly and says hi, other times he's really hostile like avoiding me openly. What should I do then? I really want to know Oh yeah, and I was bullied too. Dont let it have any more impact on your life. There's here and now, you can do what you want. The past is gone and you can say that it made you a more insightful sensitive person.

I thought only guys were supposed to tell someone that they like them..Is it like an equal thing then that both do? The thing is, i like a boy who used to be a friend and then suddenly sttarted to not invite me to do things and avoid me. You sound like an expert lol

Depression can give you bad concentration and motivation.. my advice is to go back to school and get some qualifications! Honestly, don't let the past ruin your future. I don't know what to say either really as I havent been in your situation and I can't make judgements. From what you're saying, I'd just guess that they had been quite close-knit, you were new, like exciting at first, and then they began to resent you for being successfuil and disrupting the circles they had.
I've told one person this before only, don't feel obliged to read, but if your interested, what happened to me is that I moved to a new school for VI form, this might sound strange to you, but I was just joking to my friend about how my mum kept on trying to get me to have a boyfriend and how that was supposed to be like the wrong way around, and then this girl started to flirt with me, like stare at me in the eyes for very long periods of time trying to catch my eye amongst other things.. THEN she started telling everyone that I was doing it to her!!! "long adoring glances"."I mean wtf? I thought that maybe she thought I was actually reciprocating and just finding it funny or something. It turns out that it was intentional because i confronted her about it.she said to me "sorry it was not intentional as far as im aware..." "haha okay... apologies for any confusionn on my part" things i couldn't repeatin defence, but she didn't stop. She is bi though im pretty certain.
Then just before AS exams in study leave she got someone to say that I thought she was dedicating facebook statuses to me romantically in a mass fb message bitching. I messed up my AS exams and as a result my uni choices were narrowed despite getting the grades in the end and she's studying the same course at cambridge. I just don't know how her mind works and I've given up trying.

I honestly don't have a clue what to do in that situation, sorry

Everyone keeps telling me the past is the past, let it go etc... I honestly wish it was that easy but one of the biggest things for me is understanding why it happened, I'm a very deep thinker and I had always been the golden boy at school until I moved to Cumbria and spent my last 3 years at a certain school, for the first few weeks everything was brilliant, I don't want to sound big headed, but everybody wanted to hang around with me, I could of had any girl I wanted and I literally had the most popular people baking me muffins in cooking class, then suddenly everybody turned and my attendance in the last 2 years plummeted to below 60%, I went from all the top sets to the very bottom sets because I didn't do any coursework and I managed to leave school with 1 GCSE, a C in English language. I don't get it