Outsider
What is Outsider?
You don't belong to the groups around you. A stranger in the spaces you inhabit.
When you might feel outsider
Outsider is a specific form of alienated, which itself is a type of isolated. You might experience this feeling in situations where isolated is present, particularly when the circumstances align with the nuances that define outsider.
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Open Connection & Loneliness WheelRelated Emotions
Physically or socially without others. The absence of people around you is real,...
Others have connection — you don't. Being on the outside looking in....
You've stopped being in people's thoughts. Out of sight, out of mind — and it hu...
Pulling back from people by choice or by exhaustion. Sometimes isolation is self...
Present but concealed. You're around people but not really there....
Connection feels too risky or costly. Keeping distance as a defence....