[polls] Alienness

[wispfox]

Ok, fine, I finally get around to posting a poll. :)

[Poll #577769]

[edit: incidentally, not only did I feel like an alien most of my life, and still sometimes now, I apparently have at least one person who categorizes me in my very own space alien category]

Comments

[randysmith]

The major reason I don't feel like an alien now is that I have a reasonably well developed sense of how people, including me, works, and I feel like I fit in that spectrum reasonably well with the right knobs tweaked. That doesn't mean that I feel like I'm like other people, or "belong" in a group (which is what I imagine not feeling like an alien might mean to people).

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

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'.

Also, I point to my edit. ;)