Being the different one in your family is hard. It’s also how families get new chapters.

Being the one who does not match takes a specific kind of tiredness, since it means explaining yourself at the same table where everyone else is understood without trying. That is real and not worth minimizing. It is also usually where a family’s direction changes, because someone has to do the thing nobody has done before. Both of those are true at once.

Find one person outside the house who gets the part your family does not. Keep the connection at home where it is workable rather than trying to win the argument. Difference gets easier to hold once it is not carried alone.