The subtle signs you're not an introvert but an 'otrovert' (psychological design)

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https://www.sciencefocus.com/wellbeing/otrovert-signs

INTRO: If you ever feel like you don't belong, a buzzy new term in popular psychology may help you find your place in the world.

Otroversion is a personality trait used by psychiatrist Dr Rami Kaminski to describe a person who doesn't fit in – not just in social groups, but in the existing personality types defined in the diagnostic manuals of professional psychology.

Kaminski says he’s an otrovert himself and developed the idea after recognising his own traits in patients. “When I was a child and teenager, I really felt different,” he says. “I was popular, I had no obvious deficiencies, but I didn’t understand why I could be in a social gathering and feel alienated and remote and very lonely.”

It’s this feeling of ‘otherness’ that Kaminski says defines the otrovert. They tend not to work well in groups. They don’t ask for advice from others. They might agree with you wholeheartedly one-on-one, but the idea of consensus baffles them. They distrust institutions.

And they struggle even to comprehend how groups of people think collectively, whether those groups are religious, political or social.

None of which is to say that otroversion is a cognitive or emotional disorder. Otroverts are usually friendly and altruistic people, Kaminski says, but they prefer to have deep relationships with just one other person.

That doesn’t mean it’s another word for introversion either... (MORE - details)

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In the meantime, he has only one piece of advice for anyone who believes they’re an otrovert. “Don’t try to fit in. It’s a hopeless pursuit and eventually, you’ll see it’s not necessary.”

That's me. I discovered that about myself in the Navy, tending to put people off I was thrown together with like in the berthing compartments. I never knew why. I got along great with people I worked with and who got to know me. But I guess I was always too different to people and made them uncomfortable. I just didn't identify with their need to be like each other. So over the years I just said screw it and chose a solitary life instead. And now I'm surrounded by friends, some that I can hear but can't see, and others that I can see but can't hear. And I'm totally content with that.