OrionsMask [he/him,any]

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Cake day: August 26th, 2020

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  • Just got back from a trip in which I had to be around work colleagues 16 hours a day for 2 weeks. I’m drained of course, socially, physically, they were very demanding days, but what is really weighing on my mind is how different I feel to them. I like to be curious and inquisitive, I like to ask questions and learn deeper things about people.

    I think this really irritated my colleagues. Even the slightest question out of what’s “normal” to ask got me labelled as someone who “gives an awful lot of things an awful lot of thought,” which was meant to be something negative. I personally don’t see it as a bad thing, I think the things I talk about stimulate interesting discussion, but they just want to talk about TikTok and talk shit on other coworkers, which I find horrendously dull.

    It reinforced the idea that I already have that I’m “not normal,” out of place, and that’s an isolating feeling. I hate feeling bad about myself for a trait that I actually think is good.

    I know they’re my work colleagues, not my best friends, but it hurts because I have to see these people every day and it feels like I can’t relate to them.