Zara, your experiences sounds so familiar:)) I am the only one from my class who has got higher education and the first in my family who will have PhD; so my family members, relatives, friends and not to talk about people in my home village think I am some kind of deviant:) And as one can espect, they do not understand what it is about, especially when I complain that it is so hard, I am depressed or not motivated...PhD in this case is really only for us ourselves:)Sometimes it makes me feel very mch like outsider. But I dont regret, in University we can meet people who do understand and who are similar:))