Is your cat as strange as my cat?

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For those of you who don't know I have a 3 year old neutered male cat who before I got him lived for 6 months in a basement and before that he was abandoned and spent a whole summer roaming the streets of his neighborhood. I've had him for almost 3 months now and he still doesn't really trust me to even pat him. He spends most of the day and night under my bed, won't come into the living room where I spend most of my time, he won't sit on my couch or on my lap. There have been a few very small breakthroughs that get me very excited. When I go out on the porch for a cigarette he will cry behind my apartment door but when I go back in the apartment he runs back under the bed. I bought him catnip that does nothing for him. This morning I spent half an hour playing with one of those feather and bell things at the end of a pole and he actually started batting at it for a couple of minutes but then went back under the bed . Do you have a pet who you think is strange? Is my Bigguy ever going to trust me?