my original answer to this was, "Lots of things, not all of them are easy to explain."

But now I'm going to try to explain them.

One thing would be unusually high intelligence. (I know I talk about intelligence too much.) Sub-traits of this would be:

- keenness
- being able to see all sides of an issue
- being extremely imaginative (related to seeing all sides of an issue)
- being very intuitive (related to keenness)
- being more self-aware than most and being perceptive/insightful regarding the thoughts of others (I'm grouping these two things together because they go hand-in-hand)
- a strong propensity to think independently rather than with the crowd (I don't even know why this is extraordinary)
- ability to integrate mysticism or spiritual-minded concepts with fierce coherent logic (unlike most mystic types, I'm actually into science. Unlike most sciency types, I'm perfectly okay with the mystical); ability to integrate emotions and 'feelings' about things with reason and analytical thought pretty seamlessly, so more than just straightforward evidence is informative to me, and my mode of assimilating the cosmos/truth is not limited in an insect-like fashion like it is for most smart people.

Other ways I stand out:

- I'm ridiculously, phenomenally insecure. Some more-or-less random examples: I can't even hold a job because i'm so insecure. I've failed classes in college because I was too afraid to go up and ask the professor something like, "where's the lab?" I didn't have sex until I was 28, which was around the same I actually kissed a girl, except for one that I kissed when I was about 18-22 who wasn't even remotely attractive to me. I'm terrified to use the bus system by myself because I don't want to make everyone stop just so I can get off (and I'm not even sure how to), but more importantly, I would probably get lost and I'd have no idea what to do. But that last fact is also related to...

- the second thing I said in this answer: https://retrospring.net/ColorStorm/a/854175 , which is probably another thing that sets me apart. I don't think like other people. I used to think people were inexplicably *weird*, and they were *all weird in basically the same way*, and that figuring out the proper way to socialize them was as hard as rocket science as far as I was concerned. Eventually I started trying really hard to put myself in other people's heads, random people, so that I could get a better sense of understanding humans, or maybe so that I could be more like them and thus integrate better with the world, I don't remember now. Anyway, they don't seem quite as weird to me now, but still, the things I said in that other answer still hold.

- I actually have integrity, for example, I won't act selfishly/inconsiderately/unfairly or change my principles just because the context changed and I'm not being judged at the time or because I'm being judged differently. Or maybe it's more the fact that I even *have* principles.

- I think I have more strength than almost anyone, I guess I've developed it over years of suffering in abject misery and dire need and struggle, while retaining resolve, positivity/cheerfulness (on whatever levels I could), and hope. Or faith. (I mean true faith, not religious faith or "belief without reason.")

- I feel really 'small' compared to other people. It's like I have no ego (although I also have a huge ego, in some different sense), and I used to be very sensitive to the fact that people generally seemed to have very huge egos, as in stuffy senses of self-importance to maintain, so big that their egos actually seemed in some almost tangible sense to be "bigger than they were." Nor did I really understand the concept of respect or the need for dignity. I guess I just naturally respected everyone, because I didn't think I was above anyone, and dignity just seemed like a stuffy way to preserve one's ego via appearances. I think this sense of smallness isn't as acute as it used to be, but it's probably still way out there compared to the norm.

- I'm very positive and open-minded in a certain way, in that I'm not afraid to like/indulge in or praise things that are wholly, thoroughly "positive" in a way that other people--other than kids and maybe females--would be averse to, probably because they're afraid it would seem "gay" or something vaguely along those lines.

- I have a very strong mind, as in I have a heavy psychic influence over those around me also over general events/outcomes. Just as one example, the example least likely to (but not necessarily *unlikely* to) set off people's "he's crazy" alarms, very nearly \*every\* time I stare at a random girl from behind, she'll turn around and look at me. It doesn't matter what she's doing, even if she's walking away from me, or how engaged she is in what she's doing (such as talking with her friends, etc.). I don't think getting those reactions is normal for everyone because otherwise people would be turning around randomly a lot more often, and also I had a friend once who said that never happens to him. I won't get into how I influence other kinds of things because not many people are open-minded enough for that. The phenomenon of people sensing when people are staring at them, on the other hand, is a relatively commonly known and accepted thing.

- I have no emotions. Or almost none. I used to have emotions, even very powerful ones (mostly desire for girls), but they slowly dwindled over time.