Thinking and Philosphy

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This particular subject is fascinating, because it asks questions you don't typically ask. For ex.:
Do I exist/ Do others exist?
What is my identity?
Am I alive?
Why am I here?
It is very confusing and most people around me don't like asking questions like this. Am I strange for liking this?

Seems normal to me. I started asking all those questions when I was around 11. Can't say that my friends could relate though - they were more interested in the latest pop band and football teams.

Everyone, even NTs wonder why we exist so it's normal to wonder. But my friends are more interested in sports and making a fool of themselves. The rational NT friends may think about it sometimes but I do it every[b] hour of the day

Too easy.

Do I exist/ Do others exist? - I exist if I choose to think I exist, and others exist if I choose to think they exist. I think, therefore I am capable of believing I exist.
What is my identity? - My identity is what I believe it to be. I believe it to be comprised of: How I view the past, my personality of the present, and my wishes/goals for the future.
Am I alive? - Yes. If I were not, I would not be capable of thought - and if you argue that you can think while dead, then that heads into lines of spirituality/religion that I do not believe in.
Why am I here? - To debate these questions? I think it is merely a production of circumstance. However, as for the purpose of MY life, it is what I make it to be and what I apply meaning to.

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You're not strange for liking that kind of stuff.
I used to think about that kind of stuff alot when I was younger. I was a really philisophical kid, but since I hit Grade 6 most of my headspace is used up thinking about how to socialize normally and analysizing other people.
Also I find that if I start thinking too much about the meaning of the universe and why we're here and that kind of thing I start to feel disconnected from my body and the world becomes kind of glowy and I feel weird.

I spend a great deal of time thinking about that stuff, but sometimes it feels like others don't. Then again, it isn't the sort of thing people talk about, so who knows if it's common.

Philosophy is quite the interesting subject.
For example, I have come to conclude that my existence is subjective to the beholder; as I behold that I exist, however, I intend to do something positive with that existence.
You are not at all peculiar for being interested in such things. It was this sort of thought that started the entire Enlightenment era, which, if I have been taught correctly, sparked many of the mindsets and institutions that exist today.