figure out where all the people like me are hiding

I think you need a certain amount of experience in misunderstandings to even realize that you don’t seem to know anybody “like” you.
I mean, you don’t need to be a loner, you might even like some of the people you always leave shaking their heads (it’s not their fault after all)…

But at some point…after having checked several times that you’re not just being stupid or stubborn, but really seem to live on another planet than most of them…
You wonder why you can’t just once meet someone that has a slight shadow of an idea of what you’re talking about.

And then you go: “Wait. This writer seems to share my opinion, and that character on TV must have been created by someone, right? And who are the people who wrote my favorite song, anyway? So, I’m either a really melodramatic person, or…or… there has to be a certain percentage of people out there with whom I could get along quite well, and which I just haven’t met yet, because a) life is unfair and b) they probably don’t know there are so many of their disposition either.”

So you think about the internet, with billions of people wandering around incognito, longing for social contact in a different kind of reality. But then…have fun finding ‘em! How could you possibly find them? Right- mutual interests! But have you ever noticed what kind of jerks happen to like the things you like?

And then there’s the “conspiracies-always-make-sense”-stuff, which means that if a person that’s supposed to be like you hints at something, you’ll read exactly what you want into it, and then you will say something implicit, and the other person feels totally understood, until, at some point, there will be the first small disagreement –which finally turns into a major disagreement- and you will realize that you’ve been naïve all over again…cheers!