I feel like I fit in that spectrum reasonably well with the right knobs tweaked
Huh.
Huh.
By that definition, I should have said 'yes, of course' not 'sometimes'.
I am me. I don't tend to fit into categories or spectra of categories well, even though I have some self-defined categories. I... would be very confused to need to be able to say that I make sense according to what other people do, in order to not feel like an alien.
I often don't feel like an alien, to myself, because I have people whose behavior I can understand in my life. And I have people who seem to understand me, most of the time, in my life. These categories overlap, and that overlap makes me _VERY HAPPY_.
So by the definition of 'not an alien' meaning that I trust that people won't confuse me on a regular basis? I'm still an alien, except with _VERY_ small groups of people, and even they sometimes confuse me. But by the definition of 'I am understood and have people I basically understand', I am not. Sometimes, I still get overwhelmed by inability to understand most humans, which is why my answer was sometimes. But there are enough apparent humans that I _don't_ have this problem with that I no longer think 'alien', usually. I think 'subcategory of human'.
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Date: 2005-09-26 06:21 pm (UTC)Huh.
Huh.
By that definition, I should have said 'yes, of course' not 'sometimes'.
I am me. I don't tend to fit into categories or spectra of categories well, even though I have some self-defined categories. I... would be very confused to need to be able to say that I make sense according to what other people do, in order to not feel like an alien.
I often don't feel like an alien, to myself, because I have people whose behavior I can understand in my life. And I have people who seem to understand me, most of the time, in my life. These categories overlap, and that overlap makes me _VERY HAPPY_.
So by the definition of 'not an alien' meaning that I trust that people won't confuse me on a regular basis? I'm still an alien, except with _VERY_ small groups of people, and even they sometimes confuse me. But by the definition of 'I am understood and have people I basically understand', I am not. Sometimes, I still get overwhelmed by inability to understand most humans, which is why my answer was sometimes. But there are enough apparent humans that I _don't_ have this problem with that I no longer think 'alien', usually. I think 'subcategory of human'.
Also, I point to my edit. ;)