I have felt like an outsider, marginal, misunderstood; I have, for years, not comprehended things it seemed like everyone else knew somehow by magic; I have lived in my own world and reacted to things in an exaggerated or oddly unresponsive manner. I would never have described any of that as feeling like an alien. I've always felt like a human, tied to Earth, if not always a very successful human.
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How would you describe "feeling like an alien"?