I do however, think there may be too much emphasis on what I may be doing wrong instead of how to best solve the problem.
Syler, the way I understood your basic question was this: you are having difficulty maintaining relationships with people, but you don't know why. Some of what you've said (like, "Maybe, people simply don't like people who are different") gave me the impression that you are concerned that there is something intrinsically unlikeable about you. People who grow up in the kind of situation you described in your introductory post often have feelings like that. I really think there's nothing wrong with you!
If you want to explore this issue you are having with relationships, consider this: it's pretty impossible to change other people. What you do have control over is
you. So in order to change the state of affairs (which is obviously causing you distress!) the logical thing to do is try to figure out what you could change about your behavior (and in that I'm including the way you think about things) that would improve the situation. I think the advice people are offering you here is offered with that in mind.
