I honestly feel so bad for you! I'm glad you made it through it and are still here with us today! I truly hope you can get through stuff!
Anyways, Middle School is horrible, just because everyone is a piece of immature scum with no social etiquette. However, In my own experience, I have found that in high school, guys tend to mature. I was able to fit in easily because I found a ton of people with common interests such as sports, and somehow the nerdy side of life (like complexly useless science, as well as physics, for whatever reason) (not magic), and just a few genuinely nice people. It might be because of the age of the internet, and the fact that we as today's highschoolers can understand what someone is going through or coming from, and can find other common interests more easily. Furthermore, magic is significantly more popular today than it was 40, 30, 20, hell even 5 - 10, years ago. In fact, I think most kids actually enjoy watching magic in the modern day due to the popularity of it on things like AGT, P & T, even David Blaine's specials.
Whatever the reason, I am really glad to be a part of the "post-millennial" generation of High Schoolers, simply because it is so easy for us to learn from people who came before us, and thus allows us to make connections easier with people. I think that modern high school is probably a lot more different than anything more than maybe 4 of 5 years ago.
Oh and that thing I said about popularity is really true. No one gives a crap. It's hard to explain, but it's true.