The Japanese phrase “kawatterune” (“you are a bit different or odd”) appears to be a unique term that is often used as a compliment, but may be disguised as a microaggression (Sue, 2010) or a hidden negative meaning that may work to exclude the recipients from the group. I personally experienced being told I was “kawatterune” from my college classmates that made me feel uneasy and isolated. This led me to my research question which is how the phrase “kawatterune” is experienced by other Japanese people, and how being told this influenced or affected them. This study explores the relationship between oddness and identity in the context of Japanese society through my own and others’ experiences. In this research, I adopted a qualitative method called autoethnography which is a method that uses the researcher’s personal experience as a main source of research object to investigate further understanding of cultural, political, and social meanings (Christopher, 2021). I recruited five interviewees whom I personally know and with whom I had personal relationships. My preliminary research revealed three themes: oddness as an identity, unawareness of being odd and oddness as one’s reputation. Interviewees were often unaware of their ‘oddness’ even though they easily were able to recall or identify someone they knew as ‘odd’. Their unawareness comes from the ‘oddness as their identity’. These two themes were influenced largely by the third theme, ‘the oddness as one’s reputation’ from others. In Japan, the term ‘oddness’ (kawatterune) were used as a complement in most of the cases, that made people to be blind and deprive a chance to realize that it has an unconscious hidden meanings behind it. Referring to this preliminary research, I will be including discussion of microaggressions and the relationship between oddness and identity in the context of Japanese society.