Can we agree that "being different" can be both dangerous or beneficial? I've been raised with the idea that my brand of different, in general, is dangerous for me (threatened with expulsion from school, numerous threats of violence until I learned to shut up about some topics), so my prior is that any abnormal behaviour of mine is more likely dangerous than beneficial.

As to the rest, I think we'll just have to disagree - you're making a good point from an external standpoint, but nothing that would really prompt ME to update (for one thing, I like to think I'm smart and socially skilled enough to pull vastly more than a +10 on a post if I just wanted status :))