First of all: congratulations for this amazing text.
I know a person who have this problem. She is very close to me and she talks to me about this sometimes.
She is an example of something that I think about being excluded on work: there are some situations where the excluded person is also responsible for this problem. We have people who aren’t entirely socially developed and don’t fit in some groups… These people just don’t have the same interest of the others, they don’t like to talk about the same stuff, or they even don’t have a lot of things to talk.
Being in a group means that we have to talk, and we have to be able to talk. Some people aren’t able to talk, because they aren’t either smart enough (and here I’m not being cruel and humiliating anyone, each person has its own intelligence) or they are so shy that they need time to be able to talk a lot.
There are many (psychological) points around this problem and we also have to think about the other side: maybe they have motives to exclude another person. Why? Are they just being cruel? Do they have to accept another person even if they don’t like this person?
This is a hard (and very sad) thing to think about.
