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.”
Otroversion describes people who are sociable and well-liked but feel like they don't truly belong to any group - Image credit: Carmen Casado
