Like most individuals, i try to think of myself as exactly that! An individual, unique in every sense of the word, however, is it different to be individual than to seek individualism?
I think there is a very fine line between the two, seek too hard and your idea's, ideals and creations get squewed by a perverse eye. Try to be too subtle and "of like" taste and your work gets overlooked.
I don't offer a solution, I don't even offer advice, all I offer is encouragement, to be you, to do the things you do and seek the things others forgot should be sought, because humanity need's individuals, without them it cannot grow to accept what use to