Did anyone else develop social anxiety from being a TCK?
I moved at 14 from one country to another. Where I grew up was diverse and progressive. Where I ended up was the opposite, which I absolutely hated.
In my home country I was already kind of a weird kid, but in the new one I was practically an alien. I didn't fit in at all, I stuck out like a sore thumb because the town was very regional and homogenous, and the isolation I felt was deep even when I (eventually) formed a group of friends. Over time the difference in social norms was enough to make me develop a sort of hyper-vigilance in all my interactions with people.
I returned to my home country as soon as I turned 18, but I found that sense of not fitting in actually followed me there as well. It was like it became baked into my mind.
Does anyone else resonate with this?