How much have you felt out of place in the workplace? I felt

I’ve always felt like I don’t fit in with everyone else. I have to work 3x as hard to be on equal footing. Have to work more hours on my own time just to keep up. A sacrifice I make to maintain. I guess you could call it masking. Pretending I’m just like them and secretly working extra behind the scenes to not stand out or be behind. It’s exhausting but I manage. Sometimes feel burned out. Other things seem to get put on the back burner because there’s only so many hours in a day.

A lot! Like: not interested in smalltalk office conversations but in very specific topics, not accepting things that have “always been like this”, finding all the weaknesses and problems in established workarounds and working out a solution to do better (but no one wants to change), questioning authorities who don’t behave like ones, being too fast, interrupting others, …

I have always done better at work because it’s a scheduled routine.