[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

[dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com]

Most people I know feel like aliens sometimes. As an adult, I think I feel it for different reasons than when I was younger: now, it seems to have to do mostly with the fact that I have made a lot of non-mainstream choices and interact mostly with equally non-mainstream people, so when I encounter what I'm sure are "normal" people, my major reaction is "are you for real?"

As a kid, I think it had to do with lacking some social clues, which led to being boggled by the social weirdness of adolescence: at the end of 5th grade, I got on with everyone in my class, and suddenly and inexplicably, in 6th grade, I was unpopular! :)

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Oddly...

It's not my various subculturalness which makes me feel alien. Different? Sure. Most of my alienness was from when people's behavior made _NO_ sense to me.

Now, of course, I'm curious as to everyone's definition of 'alien'. :)

The bit about you as a kid sounds like a mild version of why I was convinced I was an alien. :)

[dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com]

I think the parts of my subculturalness that I identify with are the ones that make me feel "alien" -- at least in the sense of "while I intellectually understand why you do that, it still *makes no sense,* m'kay?" I actually don't really feel non-human, but did feel like I was a different *kind* of person in lots of ways -- perhaps because I read fantasy and not scifi :)