Does anybody else feel like they don’t fit in anywhere? Whenever i go out i feel this way. At Thanksgiving dinner i felt like i didn’t fit in with my extended family. I’m a Christian but i don’t go to church due to issues i have, so i don’t fit in there. Even as far as mental illness goes, i didn’t get sz or bipolar, i got a weird mix of schizoaffective disorder. Oh well. Here’s to being an oddball!
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I am always this way, but it doesn’t bother me that I march to a drum beat none else can hear or understand 
Welcome to my little corner of exsistance … Just remember it could be worse
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When I was in my twenties I found a town and some friends and a girlfriend and a job I liked. I fitted in.
Those days are well and truely gone lol. Now I pretend to fit in. But I don’t fit in anywhere with anybody.
The exception kindof was when I was in hospital.
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@DragonStorm Yes it could definitely be much worse. I have pretty much gotten used to this way of life now.
@everhopeful Strangely i didn’t feel like i fit in the last time i was in the hospital. There didn’t seem to be a lot of sz or sza people on the unit i was in. I get along pretty good among the bipolars though so that’s something.
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I’m sorry you’re feeling down.
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I wouldn’t apologies for not fitting in. I think you might enjoy your own company better than anyone else’s now. When you feel like reaching out, it can be awkward to learn how to communicate what you have to share. I just told a housemate about what I was reading and was really challenged to make myself understood. The wheels of my social mind are a little rusted. 
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@Loke Thanks but i’m not specifically feeling down. More like i’m just reflecting on how things are. I’m that way…always thinking. I can’t shut my mind off.
@PinCushion Yes is definitely enjoy spending time to myself. I do have a friend i reach out to like once a month and we do coffee or lunch. But overall i keep to myself and do my own thing.
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I have always felt I do not fit in and I still feel that way.
Not any groups either.
Thankfully I can go to the gym and yoga.
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It’s good that you have the gym and yoga. I’ve gotten used to just doing my own thing so it’s actually what i prefer nowadays.
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I feel I can get along with people fine. I just don’t feel I belong at all. I don’t trust people, likely due to this illness. So, I feel like a different breed so to speak. Like an alien amongst humans in a way. I just don’t fit in, I feel different than everyone. I don’t feel so different in here though.
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I’ve never had problems getting along with people. It’s just more like something about me doesn’t belong among other people. I also feel more at home here. That’s probably why i spend so much time here.
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I don’t fit in with neurotypicals. Hard to fit in at work when most don’t have a work ethic. Have a hard time socializing outside of work. Come here, I don’t fit in because I function too well.
Square peg. Round hole. My life.
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My mom works with a lot of people significantly younger than her and they don’t seem to have much of a work ethic. I think a lot of it is generational. It looks like we all have the issue of not fitting in in some way or another.
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As far as not fitting in I guess you can say maybe I don’t. I don’t really feel like I have hit it off with people like the way i did prior to my illness. The exception being my ten year old niece. sometimes wonder if i fit in here. So many of you I don’t really talk to.
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I don’t really make many new friends or acquaintances. Everybody i know i know from years ago. I just keep to myself mostly. I think you fit in as good as anybody else here. Don’t sweat it.
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I’m surprised by my daughter ‘s work ethic. She was lazy growing up. But she’s in college and working at a fast food place. She has a good ethic.
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I struggle to fit in anywhere. It’s like I’m always on the outer circle looking in. Here I can think I’m nearer to the people in the centre circle , but then something always happens to knock that notion for six.
@Loke It’s good that your daughter has a good work ethic. I think a lot of kids are a little lazy growing up, not wanting to do chores and things like that. Sounds like you did a good job with her.
@firemonkey I know that feeling of being on the outside looking in. I think you fit in just fine here, though. I wouldn’t worry too much about it. We’re all a bunch of misfits in one way or another.
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Thanks. I never missed work when she was growing up. I even went to work with bronchitis once. I’m just surprised because she was so lazy when she was a kid. But I think she likes making her own $$. She never asks me for anything.
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