Are you weird and proud of it?

Please comment with a post after you've made your selection. If you're weird, how are you weird. If you're proud/ashamed of being weird/normal, why/why not? If you're neither or can't decide whether to be proud or not, explain.

I selected "weird and proud of it". My weirdness consists of doing school stuff (like reading and working on projects) for fun (typical nerd). I also believe that reality is primarily perceptual and that there are a multitude of realities. In fact, what makes this really weird is that I've made it into an official religion (so far, I'm the only member ). I love to experiment with foreign experiences (through drugs or otherwise) and I'm even open to painful experiences just to know what it feels like. This is the stuff I'm proud of 'cause it makes me feel unique and independent.

Some stuff I wish didn't make me so weird is my social awkwardness. I very rarely know the right thing to say in social situations and I get nervous easily. I think my nervousness shows in the stupid things I end up saying. Although I don't think this comes off that strongly, I sometimes think others see me as a loser and, even though I don't know for certain that this is what they think, it can get to me resulting in a low-self-esteme-day. I can get really depressed because of this. Luckily, this doesn't happen often (it used to happen way more often). I'm always going to be somewhat socially awkward, but most of the time I can shrug it off remembering that I've got good friends and loved ones who accept me the way I am. So overall, I'd say my weirdness is something I take pride in.

How 'bout you?

 

somewhere in between and don't care

 

can't judge myself but people say yes.... i like this...yes i'm proud...

 

yup..proud of it too! All my friends say I'm crazy..i say "Thank YOU!"..they say I'm weird..and I say the same thing "Thank You." it's a good thing

 

If I'm weird in being myself then I guess I am and proud of it.

 

"Weird" is a dispositional diversion from the norm. This is fairly axiomatic. To count oneself as weird, this norm must be clearly defined. This may, however, be a bit more difficult than you may intuitively assume it to be. When i observe my school, I don't see one cohesive and definite norm; I see divisions into certain social groups whose norms differ from each other. It looks very conglomerated. There's a general norm that can be observed while in the cafeteria for lunch--which is almost like the average of each group's norms--and there's an entirely different one for me to observe in one of my AP or Honors classes.

But how far from the general norm does one have to be to be considered weird? Is it something that amounts gradually as one distances himself from the average of the behaviors of our general population? If so, how much of a diversion from this norm would have to occur to be truly considered "weird"?

That said, I feel that there's a fair distance in many regards between me and my peers. One huge aspect of this schism is the internalization of most of my feelings. My social skills can be described as below average, too. And my thinking is greatly different from that of the norm

... etc.

So I'd say, sure, most definitions of weird would end up lumping me in. How do I feel about this? Apathetic, honestly. Whatever leads me to the most fulfilling life will do. I suppose that social adaptation could go a far, far way. But, at the same time, not compromising my individuality can be both something that's appealing to potential partners who are of the same disposition and something that injects comfort into what can be a turbulent life. Imagination can really cure both tedium and depression.

 

Oh, I'm perfectly normal! It's the other people who are wierd!

 

Are you an ADDer?

 

Quite possibly.

 

i love myself in all of my weird outspoken glory.

 

looking at everything in its own context and beyond the boundries of my own self and life. of not even noticing the existence of my own self and life in the contexts in which i see everything else. in not even limiting my perspective to within the context of the human species and society.

all of which to me is no more then the merest common sense. and constantly being baffled that this is not the way a majority of people seem willing to observe, or at least, unfortunately, not a majority of those i come in contact with.

even on here. espcialy on random thoughts, very few seem willing to acutaly THINK to the extent of doing so.

i'm not TRYING to be wierd in doing this though, i'm simply doing what makes sense to me. i even get a little annoyed, occasionaly even more then a little, that doing so should actualy be considered wierd and not the common norm that good sensibly it would be.

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That's all we can do, isn't it?

 

the so called normal majority seems mighty weird to me. If not being a mass-consuming, unintelligent, war-supporting, advertising-brainwashed zombie like them is weird count me in!

 

I guess I'm somewhat weird. People always tell me I'm odd. I'm a huge nerd, I'm conservative, I'm Jewish (odd around here, anyway), yet I'm a hippie and hardly anything about me fits along with this time period.

I suppose you could say I'm fairly weird. I don't mind.

 

Most people say that I'm quite weird... but they are weird as well! So... I don't care!

 

Yeah people find me to be pretty odd, though not in a bad way. I'm more eccentric and am quite proud of being so. I don't try to be different...it's just that conforming is too hard!

 

weird loud and proud and will do horrible cartwheels in public while yodelng i am the walrus to prove it!

 

weird and proud of it

I am just feeling comfortable with myself. And yes, I am unique and to some I may seem weird. Oh well...

 

I suppose that many may consider me a character, but I don't lose sleep over it.
It's tough living in a world where everybody is so "normal", but to me normality is simply conforming to something really weird, and when everyone is weird-normal then no one notices the real weirdness in that life, and then everyone feels safe and sound.

 

I am weird and proud of it.


Normal is boring.

Too abnormal is sickly, tho.

But I'm just a little weird, in a good way