I ALWAYS felt that way but after finding the right therapist, he helped me understand my own differences are actually gifts instead of flaws. I now often wear a Tee-shirt that says. YOU LAUGH AT ME BECAUSE I‘M DIFFERENT. I LAUGH BECAUSE YOU’RE ALL THE SAME. This is my short answer but I might expand on it more later on. You don’t need others approval. Just permission from you to be yourself. If you don’t know who that is, just relax and be open to greet life as it comes. But on your own terms. There’s no guide book. Just be open to smiling and meeting people without expectation.

I connect with this. I try and hang out with "weird" ppl who value their nonconformity, and I do so looking for acceptance, yet my "weird" is not their "weird", which leaves me in an awkward state of wondering if something is wrong with me, or if I'm coming across as a creep.

I can't dress "weird", or show off how weird I am because I have obligations in my life now where I must maintain a certain level of commercial professionalism; it's not my privilege to polarize my image. So I look rather basic most of the time, or like a wannabe if I try to look "cool", even though I admire a carefree attitude to appearance in regards to social norms.

I'm still trying to understand what makes a person attractive, or even approachable. I like breaking down barriers of assumption and try to see people for what they are. I'm still breaking myself down too. I recognize I still do things that might put people off, IDK, people are too "nice" to let me know anyways. Why does this have to be so hard!?

I'm too weird for the weird people

“I’m too weird for the “normal” people and too normal for he weird people. I just feel like an outsider most of the time.”

Yep, that’s me.