"for every person born normal, there will be one deemed a misfit"

Well, talking about the show "taboo" on national geographic, it's true people can feel out of place even though they actually aren't.

There was this man with a medical/psychological condition 'body integrity identity disorder' who always felt his leg didn't belong to him since he was a kid. Everyday he wished for it to be removed from him, and the more he sunk into these feelings of sadness, anxiety, alienation and the fear of not being understood (if he were to tell others), the more he felt "out of place".

Any normal person wouldn't have noticed he was abnormal, nobody saw him as an outcast; but he felt like one anyway. The theme of show being "misfits", it makes makes one wonder.

So is someone an outcast if he FEELS like one even though others don't see him as one?

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Continuing... he couldn't stand those feelings in him and felt he HAD to get rid of that limb to feel much better, so he froze his leg in a tub of ice for 6 hours one day until it was completely dead and rock hard from the freezing procedure he did in his own apartment. The doctors deliberated for 10 days before they agreed to amputate his then rotten leg.

As dave accounts, his life took a 360 degrees turn, he's never felt better about himself before even though he is now disabled; he is now a much happier man with all the feelings of alienation and fear in him gone.

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And the thing to note is, are we really making an attempt to help these people merely by taking pity on them? Would watching on, trying our best to absorb his emotions and condition before thinking of solutions help?

Or would there actually be a better way to understand others even though we've never been through what they have before?