Having grown up "in the trooth", I find myself agreeing with NN and Prisca about feeling like an alien!
But, Prisca, if the people we encounter truly have "unconditional love", wouldn't they try to reach out to us in a social setting, making us try to feel part of the group? That WOULD be loving. I feel fortunate to have found such friends, although they knew me from my childhood. One quit the JW's when he was 18 (over 20 years ago) and is married to a never-been-JW gal who has fully accepted my friendship. The other is a Catholic I knew from high school. He and I got recently reacquainted and he invited me to his 40th birthday celebration. There I got reacquainted with people I had ignored for over 2 decades, but they made NO mention of that ---just made me feel glad to be back in their friendship again!
So it's possible to find people "out there" who will try to make you feel like you belong.
GopherWhy shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)