In his 2025 book, "The Gift of Not Belonging: How Outsiders Thrive in a World of Joiners," psychiatrist Dr. Rami Kaminski introduced a new human trait called otroversion, from the Spanish word otro meaning “other.” It describes people who feel detached from communal belonging yet retain the ability to empathise and make meaningful connections. Otroverts are at once deeply introverted, since they do not draw identity from any group, and deeply extroverted, since they are closely connected to ...

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