This was pretty much my son's experience in K. Running around with two kids he thought were his friends while they alternatively shunned him, told him they didn't want to play with him, or bullied him under a cover of "hey, come play with us!".
It broke my heart. And I couldn't figure out how to make him understand those kids were not his friends.
The next year he got a diagnosis of Asperger's.
One therapist told me that AS kids are at high risk of bullying, because they misinterpret social clues, and because bullies tend to over-act their feelings and emotions while trying to jerk other kids around, which means that they show up as easier to read for socially blind (or short sighted) kids. Which makes them attractive.
