Posted by Adam on December 5, 2000, at 11:41:01
In reply to Do people think you're weird or different?, posted by Sandee on December 2, 2000, at 18:33:59
I've always felt my problem is I'm not weird enough. Sometimes I think there is a real weirdo inside of me trying to get out. When it does, on occasion, people are usually quite entertained, and I have a good time too.
The key is to be yourself, and, if you can, make weird work for YOU. Think of Weird Al. He's taken his intrinsic weirdness and leveraged it into a profitable and long-lived music career, which is no small feat for someone who might otherwise have wound up consigned to an indefinite purgatory of Friday Night Polka Buffets at a rural midwestern Holiday Inn lounge.
Of course, that's "good weird". There is "bad weird" as well. I remember once when I was in high school, my then girlfriend and I were approached by this bedraggled homeless man who I think was also fairly deranged. He walked right up to us and said...
"What's a unicorn?"
We didn't know how to reply at first, but I eventually offered, "it's a horse with a horn on its head."
He looked at me very intensely. I noticed he had some thin but strong-looking rope or heavy twine in his hand, and he kept looping it around his palm like a garrotte and pulling it tight. This made me uneasy.
"It's a mythical beast," said my girlfriend.
He looked at her with equal intensity. "Why's it mythical?" he demanded.
"Because it doesn't exist," I replied. Our new friend didn't like this answer at all. In fact, he stared right at me in a most unnerving way, loosened the cord around his hand and took a step toward me.
"Well, no one has ever seen one before," my girlfriend quickly interjected.
The man stopped, turned to her, and smiled (she being the far prettier and diplomatic one). "You're a smart girl," he said. "You're a VERY smart girl."
And then he continued on past us.
OK, so this is "bad weird." If you can avoid this sort of behaviour, I say with great confidence that you're a perfectly normal weirdo, and everybody else just needs to DEAL.
Cheers!
> I'm just wondering if people find you to be weird or different than most. If so, how does that make you feel?
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> I have been told that I am definitely a departure from the norm. Sometimes it makes me uneasy.
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