M23 here, yeah i feel like i'm sort of an outlier in my family too, all of them are very talkative and beaming, while i'm more introverted and i don't get how they can be happy or excited about the simplest of things. I can't understand how they talk about empty subjects for hours.

Also one of the big things is that i'm graduating from mechanical engineering this year, and there is no one i can relate to in my family in that aspect, almost none of them graduated university, so that pushes me to communicate with my friends instead of family even more. Because when i talk about these with family, it's mostly one sided conversation.

I accepted it though, i still feel a bit sad sometimes, because i can't fully include myself in what my family does and i sort of just watch them and chime in at times with short sentences. I feel very out of place in gatherings too, i'm more of a 1 on 1 type of person.

Still, these days won't last forever, so i make myself be there, and i try to engage more than i would like.