I often view it in a different light.

Why are you different or non normal in such a setting and is difference good/bad/neither? Depending on your view you will either enforce your own isolation/rejection or validate yourself.

From a personal perspective I have always felt that people are disingenuous or a mixture of some embraced socially accepted construct(call it social skills if you wish) and their true selves. Sort of why "normal" people seem to relate cause they all have a common construct. Genuineness however is only presented in a progression of acceptable levels in the norm, but is that how you truly wish to interact?Say the world was filled with people exactly like you but with different interests, would that be what interaction looked like?Would people bare their true selves completely in all interactions?

Seen from that point of view, you realize that you are different, but that the difference is neither good nor bad, but just you being as genuine to the real you as you possibly can.Maybe the difference is just your longing for the true interactions you need. Projecting glimmers of genuine interaction as subtext to an actual conversation, turning people into more than they are, rather than seeing the beauty of your own inner strength. Being able to be the genuine you without a need of pretense.

Only those who are not judgmental are truly able to be genuine, for to be able to realize your true self as a differentiated individual you need to accept others for doing the same.