Are You Weird or Normal?
 

Now this is a thread about what people consider themselves to fit, on the normal scale or the weird scale. Obviously normal is very subjective because it's very hard to define normal these days. But on a personal level do you consider yourself odd? Or weird? Or different?

Give examples on why you consider yourself either one. Personally I find myself to be weird and have been told so many times during my lifetime. I did many strange things when I was young like going to the school chapel and singing songs by myself, walking into the sea with my school shoes on (after being told not to) and cutting headphone cords because I felt like it.

These days I feel very unusual compared to most girls I see around or know. I laugh at strange things, I bring sex up in way too many conversations, I'm a gamer, I love IT and statistics and I am obsessed with SciFi. Most people I have told that I am studying IT are shocked because it tends to be a field completely dominated by men. I'm not sure why more girls don't do it. In my class there is like 2 girls aside from me out of 200. Most girls my age are married, have kids and a career while spending their weekends socialising and drinking while obsessing over chick flicks.

I personally think being weird is not a bad thing at all! I feel like it makes me different, unique and that I can contribute to society in different ways. It also makes me realise that I relate to guys a hell of a lot better than women. My whole life I have had a huge group of guy mates from primary school, to high school and in University.

I'm really interested in how people see themselves when comparing their traits to others and what personal behaviours tend to put you in the weird or normal bracket.

Compared to most people I would say I am weird, or at least openly weird. I am sure everyone on the planet has their strange attributes but don't always let them out for whatever reason. I am quite comfortable embracing it - which is probably the main difference between "weirdos" and "normal" people.

I do find it quite grating when - in general - people say "I am well weird me" because they laugh at something minute or whatever. That's entirely normal to me. So is liking certain genres of entertainment. I think it's more subtle than that. But then again, that would probably mean I am not weird at all. Maybe.

I think this a great point that I'd like to get across because deep in side most people are weird or quirky but many chose to keep in from coming out so to speak, whereas others (like me) are confident and let the quirks out.

defo weird

being normal is no fun

im weird as well. i like video games and i like to read, i never go out. i cant talk in a group i can only talk with 1 person at the time. sometimes i daydream in the midle of the day.

I feel like I'm the only normal one and everyone else is ****ing weird.

and what do you see as normal?

this is so true, im normal everyone else is weird. haha iv been this way my whole life :)

Normal would be to me as "stable" and "honest" and "self aware" I guess

and what is stable? what kind of stablelety are aiming for?

I mostly feel like some sort of alien observer. It baffles me how easily most people seem to interact. I often only understand what a conversation is about once it's over.

i got the same feeling sometimes. whenn they talk about something, whenn the talk is over i want to say something but then the group talks about something else

I'm going to go with different... because weird now a days I am learning has taken on a whole new meaning ie. dressing up as furry people or mermaids....I work with a chick that does that...her favorite artist is Daughtry btw... (she is BIZARRE to me..) saying you game and are a chick is like saying "oh you have bad credit"... people don't think twice about it... At least I don't because I game also...

I believe that I am different because of the way I process things... I don't think like most women either... I love horror films... graphic novels... The music I listen too led me finally to seek out others (thanks MB) that enjoy things that the status quo doesn't enjoy... But like I said I am being to realize that weird I am not.. different ABSOLUTELY... Weird nah...I haven't bought a furry costume yet and dragged it into the bedroom.... Clinical maybe but they make medication for that~

I had a real life role model who was weird, but in a cool way. I thought he was so cool, to this day I try to follow in his footsteps. So I am weird.

but who says that is normal?

normal is what we want out life to be, and how we live everyday is normal to each and everyone!

I am completely normal to myself. That is all that matters. No point being weird for the sake of feeling unique, no point being "normal" for the sake of being accepted. Just be you.

People tell me I am weird all the time, but they always say in a good way. I never know what to make of it, but people usually react in quite a positive way to me so I guess my "weirdness" is a good thing.

I tend to think of "normal" people as those ones with no quirks or individuality that just sort of... exist rather than do anything remotely interesting so I hope for my sake that I'm weird.

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for me normal is just a perspective of a person, not the norm. if you like to read, then you think is normal to read all the time, but thats normal for anyone

Everybody is trying to steal my shoes.

Well quit making it hard for them and just give them up already.

I don't like "weird", I prefer eccentric.

I don't agree with this. As I said, everyone will have those quirks. Not having an outward personality is considered weird to some. Most people think it's normal to be loud when getting pissed or to make fun of people or whatever "extroverted" thing you can think of.

Weirdness can't always be judged based on what people show.

Don't worry, you're weird.:p: In fact this forum is full of weirdos.

That is the word most people use for me, some people , mad, but in an affectionate way. I hope!

Should I also just "give up" my tinfoil hat to the guys in the black helicopters?

Those guys are just going to forcefully take your tinfoil hat so you better have backup ones.

Well, I've been known to talk to myself in the mirror and I don't mean the whole thing where you try to motivate yourself by talking to yourself. I mean I hold conversations in my head and sometimes I'll just talk to myself just to hear the sound of my own voice, and doing it in front of a mirror just enhances it or something. I've spent the better part of fifteen or twenty minutes just holding forth in front of my bathroom mirror. And I don't really pay attention to whether I'm saying it in my head or out loud, so I'm sure I'm basically just spewing out barely comprehensible sentence fragments much of the time. And I don't laugh that much in general even though I'm all about humor, but when I'm imagining funny things in my head I'll laugh myself horse. Since I'm mostly at home this doesn't affect me much, but I'm sure if I did this in public people would assume that I was insane.

I actually was about an inch from throwing punches at myself in a mirror. True story.

But, I was drinking then.

Yeah I decided a while ago to be eccentric you need to have money like a lot of money~

If you are poor, you are just bat **** crazy...

No, No, not insane just off your medication...

Perhaps it's more a case of how people view you that qualifies you as weird or normal, to use two totally catchall phrases. People would think I am weird because I'm quiet, I don't drink, I don't have a girlfriend or social life (even before becoming a carer) and I have an odd sense of humour. Like Batlord I talk to myself (and my cats); usually if I'm watching TV I can say things like "Go away I hate you stupid ad" or "Why did he do that? That was not a good idea" though there is clearly nobody there to say it to. Also I think about weird stuff (see my threads on Alternate Uinverses and the last days of Earth) and quote TV programmes a lot, something most people don't get.

My obsessions would seem odd too. Music certainly, but also an almost pathological hatred of bad spelling (how funny is that? When I wrote spelling I misspelled it!) grammar and use of syntax. Even now I'm reading a book for my sister and getting annoyed every time I come across an error which I feel should have been caught before publication. I shout at birds too --- "Shut the hell up tweeting! I'm trying to sleep here!" etc --- and hate repeating myself, particularly when writing. I call Jesus "your buddy" when talking to my sis and also "Hay-soos" and cannot let any sort of hypocrisy slide. I can also hold a grudge forever, but then again I can easily forgive.

Yeah, I think people would find me weird. Me, I know the truth: it's them that are all crazy, I'm the only sane one among them. Well, me and my pet battery... :laughing:

Freak.


Oh I totally talk to my animals. They probably think I'm nuttier than a fruit cake. Those bastards.

"OK, I'm insane! But I'm still sane enough to know it!"

+1 if you get the reference :)

+2 if you used Google to find out that it was Leela from Futurama.

If what we do when we're drunk factored into this then there wouldn't be a speck of normality in anyone.

why?

i dont find you weird, i do talk to my cat as well and i dont drink as well. i think every person is unick not weird nor crazy

And I think posting rambling fictional stories in my journal might qualify me as weird.

what kind of storys do you write?

True, but I should clarify that, when I say I was drinking I don't mean just that night, I mean that I was actively pursuing the life-consuming activity of alcoholism. I've been sober for 18 years. Otherwise I would almost certainly be in my grave by now.