Invisible Outcast: what is it?

Let’s play a “put a finger down” challenge. I’ll ask you 9 questions, and you put a finger down for every question that applies to you!

1. Put a finger down if your friends make plans to see each other without telling you. 

2. Put a finger down if your friends often refer to you as the “baby” or the “innocent one” of the friend group, or any label that makes your status within the friend group absolute inferior. 

3. Put a finger down if you feel that you are alone even when surrounded by your friends.

4. Put a finger down if you often find yourself saying “I have no friends” despite the group of friends that you qualify in.

5. Put a finger down if you ever feel you may be a burden to your friends because you think they might have a better time if you were not part of the conversation. 

6. Put a finger down if your friends talk to you in person but have yet to reach out through social media.

7. Put a finger down if you think that even when you’re with your friends, you don’t actually have anyone to talk to. 

8. Put a finger down if you think that your friends only come to talk to you after they realize that other people from your same friend group are missing or not present. 

9. Finally, put a finger down if you think that even though you qualify in many of these questions, you don’t believe you could be labeled as a “loner” because you think loners are people with absolutely no friends, but you still have friends to talk to.

If you have put more than 5 fingers down, you have come to the right place! Welcome to my awareness project, The Invisible Outcast. 

You may be wondering, what do those questions have anything to do with my project? This page is for you to understand a little more about what an "Invisible Outcast" is. 

An Outcast defines as someone who has been rejected by society or a social group. We can see that people like these often have no one to communicate with in a setting that they have been put into, like schools or workplaces. In simpler terms, an outcast is just someone who has no friends. 

On the other hand, the term Invisible defines as the inability to be seen and is not visible to the eye. 

By combining these two definitions, we achieve the term “Invisible Outcast” which defines an individual who has been rejected by society but is incapable of being seen through others' eyes. 

You may not be labeled as an outcast because you definitely have friends, but you may be an Invisible Outcast, as the friends you refer to are not necessarily nice enough to make you feel included. 

The reason why this is such an important, yet underrated discussion is that these types of people are invisible to others’ eyes, meaning it is much more difficult to recognize someone who is a part of a friend group but feels left out compared to someone who has no friends at all. 

With so many people in every social group spending a difficult time from being one of these invisible outcasts and yet no solution has been found, I decided to put together this project! 

Here, I aim to upload several different contents like videos, comics, games (like “put a finger down!”), and more to find a shortcut to gathering more individuals that feel this way in their specific social ground, and spread awareness that this is a common issue around the world to those who have been concealing these types of emotions they feel from their social group because they have had no way of finding others that feel the same way. 

It's normal to feel excluded, but that doesn't make it okay for one to experience.