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Urthred
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13 Mar 2009, 5:22 am

Anyone else feel like their not even human sometimes. I mean i look around and i see what other people my age are obsessed with and frankly its a passing intrest at best ussually add this to the fact i dont even feel like my own body belongs to me and it can be quite disconcerning. anyones ever feel like this?



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13 Mar 2009, 6:21 am

Yes, yes and yes basically.
I get quite hung up about people judging you for your looks when it's what's inside that counts.
I don't look at myself in the mirror much because it's not as interesting as what's happening inside my mind.
Often the most interesting people to talk to are classed as looking like 'oddballs' because their appearance comes a long way down their list of priorities, but it's always a pleasant surprise to get talking to someone who is oblivious to your and their physical attractiveness (or lack of) and purely interested in exploring each others' minds.
People who are too into looks seem immensely shallow and not worth bothering with.
JMHO!



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13 Mar 2009, 7:49 am

Urthred wrote:
Anyone else feel like their not even human sometimes. I mean i look around and i see what other people my age are obsessed with and frankly its a passing intrest at best ussually add this to the fact i dont even feel like my own body belongs to me and it can be quite disconcerning. anyones ever feel like this?


I do, at times. One of my fantasies is that my mother and father were from an earthlike planet about a distant star and they became marooned on Earth. I am Earth born, but I am not of the human race. But it is only a fantasy, I think.

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13 Mar 2009, 7:52 am

I heard about a family like that once. Maybe it is not just a legend after all.


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13 Mar 2009, 9:29 am

Yes, definitely. I feel like I'm not tuned into the same frequency as everyone around me and that I'm not part of "the community". Sometimes it seems that if you can't relate to people then you're not counted as a person. Humans, in general, seem to be such a socially-competent race and I certainly don't share that trait.