I don't believe my self to be scapegoat but i do consider myself a loser in the sense that i don't know how to behave in a given situation. But just like everything else in my life, i get over the rejection or feeling of inadequacy pretty quickly. Guess losing focus does have its merits.
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Its really semantics. Wherever we feel that we are at fault in some way, either because someone else doesn't choose us for a relationship or for the team, and we feel that in that small way we are a loser, we are in fact scapegoated by the situation.
I do know this personally, since I lived in a alcoholic family as a child. In such a family there are 4 separate roles to take and if there are four children, then each of them gets one role through out their lives within the family if there are not four children then they have to double up on the roles and if there is just one, then that poor child ends up totally confused having played all four of them at various times. One of them is the scapegoat, for whom every problem that goes wrong in the family is blamed on him or her.
Usually the scapegoat is the most likely to be shunned by the family eventually. I was the scapegoat, and my family eventually cut me off so that they could survive better. Unfortunately for them, the role is standard and removing me didn't remove the role. Everybody but the family mascot then got a chance to be the scapegoat, since they still needed someone to blame, even though I was gone. In this case it was mostly the family hero, which was quite a switch for her to suddenly find herself being the scapegoat.
Eventually I reconciled with the family, but it didn't last(as I knew it couldn't), as soon as some issue developed in the family they all returned to blaming me, since I was still the scapegoat from childhood. And I was blamed even though I had literally nothing to do with it, nor was I involved. I was blamed because I wasn't involved. And then because I wouldn't accept the role, I was shunned all over again, and the cycle started again, with the family hero becoming the scape goat again.
Go figure.
So yeah!