Is it normal that my friend is becoming increasingly closed off?

Hi,
this is my first submission and i hope I'm not doing it wrong.
So the problem s that my friend is becoming increasingly two-faced and closed off from me.
Once upon a time, she and I were like BFFFF....you get the idea. We would share everything with each other be it family or emotional issues. But after the December holidays, or winter break, when we saw each other again, I was really happy to see her but she was REALLY grumpy and refused to provide responses to my questions or would give me a look that said "Your really annoying you know?" or mumble something along the lines of "Geez, shut the hell up."
Call me needy but her attitude has been really infuriating, whenever I ask "What's wrong?", she just gives me a death glare.
Funny thing is, if one our friends from our group of five comes up and talks to her, she would gladly respond with a smile, even a chuckle.
In front of teachers, she would act all emo-ish and pseudo-philosophical and act really mild-mannered and so oppressed by her (insert cause here) and the teachers buy it!
About a week or two before, I finally snapped and let out all the frustration that had been building up. Of course, being the increasingly two-faced person that she was, she responded innocently with a "who? Me?" look and went on her merry way.
After a while, I felt bad for blowing up at her and said sorry and was "forgiven".
Basically, I'm just wondering if this was normal because i know that friends drift apart but that gives her NO right to treat me like something lesser than dirt and even include me out of my own circle of friends.
Sorry if at some point of time this seemed more like an anger rant than anything else.

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  • googoomema

    Talk to one of your friends in the circle of five and ask them to ask her they should be happy to. If she dosent act mad around them she should give them answer and they can tell you whats wrong

    hope I helped :D

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  • SEWnanist23

    I was getting molested as a teenager and didn't have any close friends. I seek out older people for friendship and dispise any friends my age or younger. I absolutly don't trust them but the older I get I just don't trust anyone at all and I'm a complete Ebenezer Scrooge.
    There's a guy I was hanging out with and he started telling Me what to do and that made Me sick to my stomach. He give's me phone calls and I just ignore them by looking at my caller ID. I don't have to explain to him why I'm dissing him, I'm hoping he'll get the picture and stop calling me so I don't have to fear the phone calls anymore. I wanna live in Peace!

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  • ilovefluttershy

    umm my friend who dresses in skinny jeans dark cloths who looks really emo used to be outgoing and friends with me since second grade but i dont know why but after a while he started not talking to no one i ask him i get nothing or he says nothing in an angry voice

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  • Judas_misunderstood

    She sounds like a stupid bitch. Just phase her out. Don't seek her attention or company.

    Plenty more people in the world to deal with - people will let you down, people will piss you off, but when people change and treat yo like shit, then it's time to just say, oh well, I guess we aren't friends any more.

    You will have a lot of different friends in your life, it's a little sad that this one appears to be fading but that's how it goes. Don't sweat it.

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  • Isolated

    Either she doesn't want to be your friend or like most people commenting here, she needs her personal bubble.

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  • infinity526

    wow. this is so typical that people have retarded problems and they rant on about it here. she obviously hates you and just pretended to like you to take advantage of you and finally go fed up with you. I should know, i was in your friends position a few weeks ago

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    • treehugga

      lmao den y do u come n dis u sad freak!!!!!!!

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  • Welcome to typical teenage friendship drama.

    Give her some space because it seems that's all she wants from you.

    Sure, you'd like an explanation, but the chances are she doesn't want to give you one, so suck it up and get on with your life.

    If you continue to try to force her into a confrontation, you could end up horribly embarrassing yourself because you will seem like a bit of a crazy person who won't leave her alone.

    Don't avoid her, but don't seek out her attention.
    Be pleasant if you have to deal with her, but don't try to get in her face or be all buddy-buddy with her unless she's ready (on her own terms) to explain her behavior to you.

    This may not seem fair to you, but that's just life and it is rarely fair.

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  • PoisonFlowers

    People and relationships change. It's one of the most common causes of people going their separate ways.

    If she acts like she can't stand to be around you and you can't stand the way she acts either, then the best thing might be to walk away before this become a full on schism or explosive argument. Better to part (fairly) amicably.

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  • slothmcgee

    Hi. I do know how you feel because I have been both on the receiving end and the delivering end, its normal to feel this way. It sounds like your friend is definately going through some sort of issue. I wouldn't take it personally, despite the fact she has said she finds you annoying, this is probably her taking it out on your rather than anything you have actually done. She might just want to be alone and is pushing you away because she doesn't want to involve you. She could be feeling a bit down or stressed at the moment and it's typical to lash out at those who are closest to you, so in a funny way its flattering i guess she feels she can behave that way to you. However, it's not acceptable for you... as she is your friend and you care about her. If i were you, i wouldn't respond negatively towards her if she tries to antagonise you, try and be indifferent to it. In fact try and be indifferent in general.. if she doesn't want to talk about her problems with you there's nothing you can do and bugging her will probably make the situation worse. All you can do really is give her a wide girth until she realises she is treating you badly, which she will. Then you can be there for her if she wants to talk about her problems. I'd try and spend some time with some other people (not talk about her with them though that could lead to more problems) to give her some space and you some space as well, plus sometimes it's good to get away from a safe "BFF" and have a wider network, though i'm sure you do, i'm speculating. Hope this helps in some way, and this doesn't sound like a lecture, i'm just literally saying how i coped with it when it happened to me, i have no idea if this applies to you. Good luck and take care :)

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  • imspecialXD

    Did you sleep with her boyfriend or something??? Unless you had done something really bad behind her back, I can't see why anyone who you are/were best friends with would act like that. I don't think it's normal, it's just plain rude! If you still want her as a friend I suggest you talk to her calmly and figure out what's up her ass. If she responds with the same bitchy attitude than lose her

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