BEND THAT CODE YOUR WAY
It’s a survival thing. When a person is an Outsider — someone who doesn’t “belong” to a group of one sort or another for whatever reason — there is a kind of invisible barrier that rises up between them and the people who do belong to that group. It’s a very real divide. “Same” is good, the prevailing culture code says; “different” not so much. It’s a built-in herd thing, I suppose. Every group has a culture code. Every group…