I had a real stalker in high school. Left me weird notes, threatened my girlfriends, would call my house and hang up or pretend to cold calling to try and get me on the phone… would corner me sometimes at night after school activities and cry and scream why i won’t go out with her , she loves me so much and we’re destined to be together. she claimed to have cast ‘love spells’ on me and didn’t understand why they didn’t work… when i graduated she started mailing me love poetry and other weird shit in the mail.

but it was a girl and I was a boy, so everyone thought it was ‘cute’. ‘she just has a crush’. ‘you should give her a chance.’ etc. not a single person took thought it was bad or wrong that she did this, and my discomfort with it made me ‘gay’. everyone knew, friends, teachers, family, coaches, etc. they all laughed it off as harmless silly girl with a crush on a popular boy. i was terrified of her.

this went on for two years. she eventually gave up after she found a new target and i went to college. thank god.