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it's not strange. it's that your external world and your interior world don't have much in common at all and less in common with the world inside of other people.
all my girlfriends were obsessed with Taylor Swift. They thought I was some robot asshole for not being 'taken' with her music... which i found to be trite pop culture crap of zero value... basically auditory Doritos. but i went along to get along. then if i played music i liked, it was deeply weird and offensive to them and was further evidence of what a freak I was. Same with books, movies, pretty much everything else.
what is meaningful to you is horrific to someone else at worst, and at best it's meaningless. I don't care for sports, and that alienates me from most of my family and huge swathes of the population for whom sports is the single most important thing in their lives.
I like that people like different things, even if I can't see what they see in it. Nobody should be made to feel like a freak for liking something, or being interested in something.
dude i like to cook. people tell me what a freak i am all the time for liking cooking and not wanting to eat out all the time or get take out everyday. just like I don't really drink, and also makes me a freak.
people don't like stuff that is different than what they like. they want you to like what they like and if you don't, then they hate you.