outcast

To rebel is to be an outcast of any label.

I guess you are a real outcast at that point; a non-intellectual.

Reading on...Being smart doesn't make you an outcast in elementary school.

From the perspective of others, I was becoming an outcast.

Not only are they outcasts in their communities, but even children will pelt them with rocks.

"I was an obsessive and voracious reader, but always an outcast.

That "football uterus" made him an outcast and he was rejected, which is not wholly unlike how menstrual women were treated in his village.

If you live in a small village where everyone knows everyone then the oddball or outcast will naturally be viewed with curiosity and suspicion.

Being outside the system for a year without a very good reason, such as interning abroad, will label you as an outcast, making it difficult to reenter the system.

It's completely "voluntary" and the quotes are important: if your whole social environment standardizes on a platform, you're an outcast if you don't step aboard.

What a classic Hero's Journey story- man encounters difficulty experienced by his loved one, tries to solve her problem efficiently, loses her in the process, becomes an outcast, persists, finds meaning in his work, receives help, is humble, helps people at an epic scale, reunites with his wife, happy ending, better world, triumph over ignorance and hardship.