Hey, I don’t know what brought me here but believe it or not, I searched for this. (P.S. I never post or comment even on other social media)

I want to start off by saying I can totally understand and relate to this feeling of being different. I believe the way I think is just so complicated that I can’t relate to other people in a deep and meaningful way. It always gets me wondering if all people feel like this just end up making these “friends” by being someone they are not. Maybe I’m just expecting too much from these types of relationships because I have never had one. Same as you, I have been told I’m mature for my age since around primary to middle school and since then, I haven’t changed. I can’t bring myself to act childish like my peers and I don’t know if it’s because I might have social anxiety or because it’s simply not in my nature to act like that, and to be honest, it was really hard for me. I don’t even think I had a single person I’d consider a friend because of this; I’d always feel almost as if they knew something was off about me. Sure they’d call me cool, I was cool with everyone, no one would ever bully me, but no one ever actively tried got close to me.

I have always convinced myself that no one I’d met was a compatible friend because of how I’d think and that maybe, just maybe, one I’d finally come across a person just like me. This might sound stupid but I’d even tried to think of something only someone like me would do such as searching up a specific phrase on the internet to see if I can find someone like me, but I’m trying to come to terms with the idea that maybe everyone really does think differently to each other and people like us have just grown aware of that.

Everyone deserves to be happy and you should do everything you want while you are in this world. I think the important part of finding people like us is to keep looking and never lose hope. Who knows, maybe they are sitting next to you on your daily commute, or maybe they just are a random passerby; the point is they could be anyone. Although, unfortunately for us we are often too reserved to engage in these types of interactions, and maybe in near the future we can make some sort of secret way of telling straight a way what type of people strangers are.

I hope you’re well and I hope you don’t fade away too soon,

Just Another Human