The lower you are in society the less people associate with you on their own free will. I am neurodivergent, bipolar, and visually impaired and every decade I’ve been treated worse (though the outlier to this was junior high where I had the typical crappy experience).

One of the interesting things about being on the bottom is the responsibilities all apply but the privileges don’t. For example I’m still expected to help in church but the people are free to reject and ostracize me.

For a while I was volunteering moderating for a mental illness support group and I found that the people who were the angriest and most disruptive were not the lowest functioning but the people who were scraping by but at one time had been higher functioning and actually had friends they had a deep rapport with.

I am like this because people used to enter my life on their own free will. But that doesn’t happen anymore because of my negative value as well as my negative symptoms.