I think you grew up somewhere where tolerance to deviation from the norm was very low. Nothing about you would have marked you out as "different" where I grew up.
Perhaps I should mend fences here. My view of you is someone who gives the norm a good name, and shows why we have one, not someone who deviates from it. I'd agree that makes you in some sense more worthwhile a person than someone who follows the norm out of habit, but this doesn't make you "different" in the sense I'm thinking of.
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Perhaps I should mend fences here. My view of you is someone who gives the norm a good name, and shows why we have one, not someone who deviates from it. I'd agree that makes you in some sense more worthwhile a person than someone who follows the norm out of habit, but this doesn't make you "different" in the sense I'm thinking of.