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Default Oct 20, 2020 at 09:52 AM
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I posted in a check in thread for misfits. Having posted there I realised I do not fit in there either. Does anyone else experience not fitting in, in any group anywhere? I am not sure if this bothers me. I think I have experienced some growth. It does not bother me as much as it used to bother me. I experienced neglect in childhood.
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I posted in the misfits thread as well. In my case, I'm a pretty reclusive person in real life. So not fitting in anywhere irl isn't an issue for me. It tends to be more of an issue for me on-line.

Although I've been kicking around the mental health system where I live for over 20 years, I don't have a diagnosis. So I don't feel as though I have a "home" forum here on PC. There are other forum websites that focus on some of my primary concerns. But there's always some particular aspect of my situation that makes me not fit into any of those either. It is kind-of frustrating because I'd really like to have an on-line "home", so to speak, where other members shared my concerns & had had similar experiences so they understood what I was talking about when I posted something. But I've come to the conclusion that just isn't likely to happen. So that's the way it is. It's no big deal, in the whole scheme of things... it would just be... nice.
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You fit in here mountainstream, good to see you back

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I posted in a check in thread for misfits. Having posted there I realised I do not fit in there either. Does anyone else experience not fitting in, in any group anywhere? I am not sure if this bothers me. I think I have experienced some growth. It does not bother me as much as it used to bother me. I experienced neglect in childhood.
I think I frequently get into a state of mind where I don't feel like I can't relate to other people. It might be that other people think I belong, I don't know. I think the way other people feel is pretty much unknowable because we all lie to each other about those sorts of things.
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Does anyone else experience not fitting in, in any group anywhere?
I came close to "fitting in" to a small number of small groups earlier in life, but not for the past two decades.
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It [not fitting in] does not bother me as much as it used to bother me.
The younger me did want to fit in or belong on some level. This desire evaporated with the years.
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I experienced neglect in childhood.
Mine was a largely solitary childhood. I believe it is reasonable to ascribe some or much of my later psychological history to that.


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