[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

[beaq.livejournal.com]

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.

How would you describe "feeling like an alien"?

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

How would you describe "feeling like an alien"?

The behaviors of the people who surrounded me generally made no sense, for most of my life. I was missing the nonverbal portion of communication, and most of the apparently 'obvious' things that most people pick up on.

So, being surrounded by beings whose behavior made no sense, and who mostly had _NO_ idea why I was so very confused, when my confusion made perfect sense to me, made me decide at a very young age that I wasn't actually human, and ended up on the wrong planet (this was probably after I started reading science fiction). Especially since them not understanding why I was confused tended to mean that most people didn't try to explain anything to me.

Most of my life, I spent people-watching, in an attempt to understand what the _hell_ was going on. Anthropological studies, if I had only known it at the time. That helped, some, but people with good skills in such taking the time to try to explain body language and tone and such - so I had a basis from which to try to start to understand such things - made the biggest difference.

In other words, I had to be taught how to speak the most prevalent language of human beings, because I did _not_ pick it up on my own. Ok, I got more than nothing; really dramatic stuff got through. But I never understood why people were so upset with me for not understanding what was going on before then.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Did the explanation help any? I can try again, if you like, although without some words around why the explanation didn't help (if it didn't) would be necessary.