>Once he finds himself in such groups or, as he matures, aspires to be a member of some group, he in effect discovers more or less unconsciously that he must exhibit the behavior that will identify him as belonging, or accept a position as an outsider.
Reading a book on group psychology, and as a perpetual outsider this line stuck out to me.
Leo Robinson
I know them feels user. I've tried several times to fit in. Never could. Now I'm just The Stranger.
William Nguyen
You are a member of a group, you're a Veeky Forums user.
Jace Wood
>tfw easily fit in but feel like a rat with no backbone
Aiden Martin
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James Thomas
this is the worst feel
Cooper Walker
Nice quote OP. I know this feel well but I'm too autistic to try and fit in these days. I accept that my co-workers think I'm a weird, autistic loser and make zero effort to change that opinion. Feels comfy actually.
Jaxon Walker
SOURCE OP?
Samuel Myers
>or accept a position as an outsider. Literally how?
Jacob Torres
>tfw feel like some kind of sociopath when i try to fit in you just gotta live in the moment but its hard yknow
Henry Baker
I'd never want to belong to a group that would have someone like me as a member
Benjamin Murphy
So just find a group wherein you don't mind beloning or accepting? Sounds like you're just not getting out enough, and not meeting the right people.
Leo Gutierrez
Be Happy about that, you're able to see outside the group
Blake Brown
>tfw respected and listened to by your peers
Nicholas Bennett
You should be glad. Have you ever noticed how normies tend to become carbon copies of their friends? True greatness can only be attained outside of society, looking in.
Luke Sullivan
makes you think
James Phillips
I feel this
Brayden Johnson
What I really want is one true close friend who shares interests with me and who can be mutually respected. I'd much rather have that than a clique.
Jose Gomez
>tfw you realized that socializing is all a game >tfw you realized that social interaction is just people trying to sell themselves to each other. >tfw you respect yourself more than they respect themselves since you refuse to lower yourself to the status of a commodity Feels good to be a supreme gentleman
Thomas White
>tfw totally socially competent with plenty of friends and a gf >secretly judge literally everybody I walk past and even the people closest to me >my mind reflexively does it >judge myself just as harshly >scan every person I see for errors to use to hate them
I think I really am a psychopath, but I've never seen a therapist for this shit. If I had to guess, it stems from the fact that I fat until the end of high school and always had low self esteem until I got fit.
Jonathan Flores
I suppose you are all lacking the personality to be liked for being you. You don't have to be the centre of attension but if you have any redeeming qualities, just express those until your comfortable enough to let the weird slip out.
If you truly have nothing social within you then perhaps you weren't meant for this world
Bentley Nguyen
"Accept" insofar as you don't off just yourself from self-hate or loneliness.
Luke King
You're most likely not a psychopath. They do not judge themselves harshly, they do not have low self esteem and they do not think of seeing a therapist - because they do not consider themselves psychologically "sick"
You might be on the anti-social spectrum, however, which is where psychopaths are also situated
Leo Reed
This Fox has a longing for grapes: He jumps, but the bunch still escapes. So he goes away sour; And, 'tis said, to this hour Declares that he's no taste for grapes.
Brayden Watson
>>judge myself just as harshly
You don't know what the word psychopath means if you are even capable of doing this, let alone doing it with any kind of regularity.
Relax. As long as you're judging in your head and not being a try hard douche to everyone around you who cares. Just get on with your life and you'll probably grow out of this in time. In fact you stand a very good chance to because you sound pretty self-aware about it all.
Levi Foster
You know that part in 'A Beautiful Mind' when the protagonist finally gets recognition by receiving some pens. Whenever I feel sad about being somewhat lonely, I reflect on this and am kinda glad I won't ever have to suffer something similar
Brayden Edwards
I feel you, user. It does't matter how much I click with the group, it feels like I'll always just be a background character.
Jace Perez
I hope your underage.
Being a part of a group merely dictates your physical appearance. It does not require a change in personality or interests. If you think being part of a social circle somehow erradicates individuality, you're retarded.
Benjamin Taylor
Why did you make up a paragraph explaining your social inadequacy, op?
Jonathan Young
OK op, now read Freud
Kayden White
Erving Goffman if you haven't read him, OP
Jordan Peterson
Agreed. This is why I haven't been on a date in 5 years as well.
Asher Roberts
t. assblasted, low IQ socialfag who feels threatened by the idea that someone doesn't like the same things as him
Ethan Collins
> fag who feels threatened by the idea that someone doesn't like the same things as him
Literally describing yourself.
Jose Reed
I'm not threatened by anything. I just know if I post my opinions edgily enough, I'm guaranteed (you)s
Lucas Lopez
>I'm not threatened by anything.
Except social interaction and human contact.
Lincoln Lopez
>I don't like it so I'm threatened by it If believing that helps you feel less insecure,go wild :) I have healthy social interaction on a nearly daily basis
Carson Hill
Healthy social interaction is difficult if you believe everybody is trying to sell themselves as a commodity.
Robert Gonzalez
Can't tell you how much I relate to this
Nolan Brooks
"My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”