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Sep 27, 2015, 10:52 AM
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I just don't feel like I fit in anywhere in the world. I feel like everyone has this all figured out but me. I feel certain nobody likes me or they wouldn't if they really knew me, I don't know what's wrong with me but I bitterly resent it whatever it is.
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Sep 27, 2015, 03:51 PM
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I am an alien. So is my older brother. We have egg shaped heads. The alien DNA runs somewhere on my mom's side of the family.
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Sep 27, 2015, 04:06 PM
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It's mostly an illusion, thinking everyone else has things any better figured out. People generally wish to present themselves as strong, or tough, or as perfectly as they can, to protect vulnerabilities from the general public. We all have some kind of mask that we wear in public in this way, some degree of hard candy shell (some harder than others), to protect our softer centers.
But the internal perspective of experience, all the insecurities etc., is something which we can mostly only see about ourselves; we can't see much of other people's. So we end up comparing that total version of ourselves including our insecurities and whatever else, with other people's presentations of themselves. It's always an unfair comparison.
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.” — Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28) |
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| *Laurie*, annoyedgrunt84
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#4
Sep 27, 2015, 04:45 PM
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#5
Sep 28, 2015, 12:03 PM
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You're not alone, Grunt. Seems to me that most people feel the way you feel...seems to be part of the strange human condition.
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Sep 28, 2015, 01:46 PM
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I often think alienation is the only sane response to the world, but that is crazy talk and I must snap out of it.
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Sep 28, 2015, 05:04 PM
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Sep 28, 2015, 09:32 PM
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Hang in there. I too feel as if nobody gets me. Tried to befriend people and come off as a fake and phony. Be kind to yourself and know your not alone. Since I found this site, I feel a sense of community. People who will know my constant struggle to want to continue on with this life
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