Family Friends
My parents have a lot of friends in the local area. Growing up, this means that I've been around my parent's friends and hung out with their children (who are around the same age as me) a whole bunch. I have lots of memories of huge parties hosted at various people's houses for every occasion.
There is a strange sort of parasocial relationship that I have with these families. I don't go out of my way to interact with most of these people except for these gatherings. However, because my parents often talk about me to them, they certainly know things about me. To put this in context, this means that going into these events, there are frequently 10-15 people in the same room who have known me since I was a baby, but I barely know anything about. They vaguely exist in my memory as people that I should know something about, but I really don't, which can make social interactions weird. I was too busy hanging out with the kids my age and watching them play The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker or World of Warcraft while all of the adults talked in the other room.
Even weirder is growing up into an adult and realizing that these people have very different political views from you. In the brief interactions that I've had from them, I've gotten whiplash over some of the stuff that they say (because they often assume that you share the same views as them). I wonder how they would react if they knew certain things about me? When I think about (probably initially well-meaning??) people falling into the alt-right pipeline, these are the types of people that I think about. All of this is enough to want to interact with them even less. It's not like I'm going to be able to magically convince them that their views are harmful anyways...
I'm not forced to interact with these people, but they will always remain in the periphery of my life which will probably be weird forever.