Message thread with mixed iMessage and SMS participants, but I can only send iMessages

So I have a long running thread with a group of friends, some of us use iPhones and others do not. My phone used to understand this and would automatically just send SMS messages in the thread. However, now my phone will not do anything but send iMessages in the thread. It still automatically sends an SMS if I send a text to someone who doesn't use iMessage if its not in the thread. I have tried everything to get it to recognize that it needs to send SMS in this thread, but the only solution I have found so far is to completely turn off iMessage.
I had an iPhone 5 and updated to a 6 and everything was still working fine. This issue started immediately after I set up text message forwarding to my macbook and iPad. I would prefer not to delete the thread itself and start a new one with the same people but it seems that may be the only option i have left.

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