And I mean I just don’t relate to people in general. Always feel like an outsider and I think that it does not help that I am very different and “weird”
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I hear your struggle. It’s my struggle too. When I worked as an attorney people would gather and chat in the hallway right outside my office. But I always had my office door shut and never would leave to socialize with them. When I was forced to go to meetings I would stand by the door. I really struggled at that job.
But now I have a hard time even talking to my family. Sometimes I have a hard time understanding people and following their conversations. It’s just hard.
I just wanted you to know you aren’t alone.
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i’ve found as i’ve become more generalist as i’ve gotten older, in terms of topics of dicussion; now andthen i find people relatable. things like everyday things, the economy, the weather, the politics, the state of the world affairs (interntional relations), and sports and so on
I hope it gets better for you
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I feel like you’re pretty cool on here.
I feel like we vibe
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Same
Enough Christmas 
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Same with me. Very often feel like an ‘outsider’ . Exacerbated by a long term difficulty when it comes to making friends. May 2009- Mar 2020 abt 56 FB ‘friends’ . Number increased after joining FB high IQ community in 2020. Now about 340 FB ‘friends’ . Mostly via high IQ people sending me friendship requests.
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I’m very very inconsistent when it comes to relationships of any kind. Some days I like to socialize, some days I like to isolate. People confuse this with me not liking them, or something like that. So many of my friendly or romantic relationships get shattered
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I’m more time of the day at home. Alone. My parents stay at yard. I don’t have obligation. I have to clean the house but the pills are eating me alive.
I spoke whith private p doctor. He gave me instruction to change the meds because haldol was so old meds.
I m at least without hearing voices only occaousenly. I’m bad for my self. I ve never became real friends with no one from highschool.
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Honestly I don’t relate either
Me and my twin sister are like this. My older brother he was like this then he changed some where around 17. Now he always has to be in trend and his kids are obsessed with name brands and luxury cars.
We are the 1% .
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Nothing wrong being outsider
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Nor do I. I feel the mental illness/normie divide keenly. If someone doesn’t have mental illness of any kind, I feel like they don’t understand me and I can’t understand them. In my family, no one else has mental illness (my sister maybe a slight exception as she had anxiety and depression at one stage but doesn’t take meds) nor in my husband’s immediate family. So I feel adrift.
I have the same feeling with friends, even those of same religion as me. I have two friends not of same religion as me who I relate to much better because they both have sza like me. They are sisters. Hubby who’s deep into religion doesn’t like that I’m friends with them but I NEED to be friends with them because they understand me better than those of same religion as me. He doesn’t get it. But I fortunately got him to let me stay friends with them. I don’t talk to him about them much though. Just to keep the peace. I keep in touch with them via WhatsApp
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