Feel like you never belong? You may be an otrovert
If you’re not a joiner, secretly feel like an outsider in any group, feel awkward in groups and uneasy in public, you might be an otrovert, a personality type defined by a sense of “non-belonging”.
Otroverts are not shy or diffident like introverts. If anything, they are too attuned to the world around them. Getty
Unlike many other human variations, otroversion is a cognitive style that doesn’t necessarily result in a corresponding set of actions. It’s also a feeling: an emotional response to being inherently alienated from the group. Otroverts are outsiders who are treated like insiders.
Contrary to being shunned, like other outsiders, they are always welcome into the fold. They simply don’t feel like they belong to the group and never did. But because they wear their discomfort quietly, they are often mistaken for other kinds of people who share this quality, for entirely different reasons.
