Weird

✍ Scribed by Olga Khazan

• Book ID: 110846241
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 244 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780316418485

✦ Synopsis

In the tradition of Susan Cain's Quiet and Scott Stossel's My Age of Anxiety , Atlantic staff writer Olga Khazan reclaims the concept of "weird" and turns it into a badge of honor rather than a slur, showing how being different -- culturally, socially, physically, or mentally -- can actually be a person's greatest strength.
Most of us have at some point in our lives felt like an outsider, sometimes considering ourselves "too weird" to fit in. Growing up as a Russian immigrant in West Texas, Olga Khazan always felt there was something different about her. This feeling has permeated her life, and as she embarked on a science writing career, she realized there were psychological connections between this feeling of being an outsider and both her struggles and successes later in life. She decided to reach out to other people who were unique in their environments to see if they had experienced similar feelings of alienation, and if so, to learn...