Marisa

They got rougher and better at sports.

I got injured.

I was pathologically shy and awkward.

Locker room talk was utterly repulsive to me.

I lost friends and didn't care.

Ruruni Kenshin was my first inspiration to grow my hair out.

I am very lucky my parents let me.

There was an autistic kid on my soccer team with a speech impediment.

He was good at soccer but the other boys would cruelly tease him at practice, in part because he didn't understand they were teasing him.

One night after practice I spent the car ride home sobbing about it in front of my dad, who didn't get it at all.

I quit soccer.

I was utterly miserable in school.

In March of 7th grade, I developed real depression and started thinking about suicide.

Mom took me to two different psychologists.

we decided I would homeschool 8th grade.

Now, I really had no friends.

I was still depressed.

At this point I was only living for WoW and anime.

By far, my favourite was Highbane Renmai.

It's 13 episodes of angel girls living in a run-down boarding school and basically just taking care of each other.