I like to think I put very little effort into being normal, I simply just keep my more unique thoughts to myself 
How much effort do you put into being "normal"?
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This may come as a shock, but firstly people aren't that much different from each other to begin with, and secondly the peers you normally care about (your friends/family) will usually accept you for who you are across the board. I semi suspect this thread to be targeted namely at pre-college students. I find the more interesting question to be how influential do you perceive your peers to be in your day to day life?
All the time. I constantly find myself doing this while pacing in the kitchen as I'm having a snack.DanDeFool said:
OT: I try to limit how much I mosh in public. But damn it when a song comes on that just makes me feel like I could take on anything, I can't help it. Otherwise, not much.
I'm pretty terrible for this, to the degree where when first meeting people my brain will rapidly take in any information i can about them so as not to be alienated.
Oddly enough im quite lucky in the job im in, working in a IT support company most the guys on in my department are massive geeks/nerds in one way or another /points to bioshock figures.
But yeah i worry i have some bizzare mental disorder not come across :/ i mean i pretty much proof read everythin in my head before i open my mouth. When i meet someone new i let them drive the conversasion but the second i pick up on something i have some knowlege about i run with it.
I am a closet nerd to be quite honest, and as much good as my ex did in bringing me outside of the closet since we broke up earlier this year i feel quite stranded so have gone back to my old ways.
I am abit of a mixed bag mind you i love rugby and was playing to a pretty high standard various reasons have now prevented me from playing the past 2 years thus burning my aspirations.
What i will say though is once i get close to someone its a great relief to me that they won't shun me for likeing the things i do.
This isn't to say i don't like all the people i hang out with i do, but they just don't know me that well i let them see what i want them to see im sure alot of them wouldn't care and its not there problem its mine.
This is the reason i don't have facebook, i can find it easier to hide my nerdy going ons and hide myself from people i no longer wish to speak to. Its a double edged sword but if it means i dont have to see what my ex is up to and re-open a wound im all for it.
Damn... that ended up more like a fucking confession then i ment it to :x
Oddly enough im quite lucky in the job im in, working in a IT support company most the guys on in my department are massive geeks/nerds in one way or another /points to bioshock figures.
But yeah i worry i have some bizzare mental disorder not come across :/ i mean i pretty much proof read everythin in my head before i open my mouth. When i meet someone new i let them drive the conversasion but the second i pick up on something i have some knowlege about i run with it.
I am a closet nerd to be quite honest, and as much good as my ex did in bringing me outside of the closet since we broke up earlier this year i feel quite stranded so have gone back to my old ways.
I am abit of a mixed bag mind you i love rugby and was playing to a pretty high standard various reasons have now prevented me from playing the past 2 years thus burning my aspirations.
What i will say though is once i get close to someone its a great relief to me that they won't shun me for likeing the things i do.
This isn't to say i don't like all the people i hang out with i do, but they just don't know me that well i let them see what i want them to see im sure alot of them wouldn't care and its not there problem its mine.
This is the reason i don't have facebook, i can find it easier to hide my nerdy going ons and hide myself from people i no longer wish to speak to. Its a double edged sword but if it means i dont have to see what my ex is up to and re-open a wound im all for it.
Damn... that ended up more like a fucking confession then i ment it to :x
None. I am who I am and if people don't like it or have issues with it, then fuck em. It's bad enough having to be all professional at work.
This is a funny one. When I was in high school (11-16) I didn't out any effort in at all, despite being bullied mercilessly for being 'weird'(read: not a slag/chav/pothead) nowadays (age 20) I kinda just tone down the weirder elements of my personality but I think I've just got more 'normal' as I've got older, or I've just stopped caring
Really all I do that's weird is talking aloud when thinking or missing social cues that make me look weird
Really all I do that's weird is talking aloud when thinking or missing social cues that make me look weird
I actually put effort into not looking normal and I don't think I conciously follow any crowd. I get weird looks and comments and think its fucking hilarious.
Let me list:
Dreadlocks,
Tattoos (sleeve+ others)
Piercings and stretchers
Wearing a kilt
and various other oddities.
I like the quesion "Why" because the plainest answer is: "Nobody told me I can't"
Let me list:
Dreadlocks,
Tattoos (sleeve+ others)
Piercings and stretchers
Wearing a kilt
and various other oddities.
I like the quesion "Why" because the plainest answer is: "Nobody told me I can't"
Absolutely none. Ironically when I TRIED to be normal I failed miserably at it and people avoided me like a plague. So now I make no effort to speak clearly and just talk how I normally would (I have a really odd voice, I mostly sound like a woman and even worse I mutter). Now I embrace my inner strangeness and make it very visibly apparent and mostly people just accept it for being who I am, rather then trying to be what I'm not.
Just enough not to annoy people.
I tend to cough a lot. But at least i don't do it voiced. Unlike some people.
I tend to cough a lot. But at least i don't do it voiced. Unlike some people.
last night i wore heels, jeans and a tank top, matched with a studded leather collar. I dont do normal. i do myself. i enjoy it, most people think im a freak.
When I am at work I have to try quite a bit to keep the real me inside. It's not that I'm a weird guy, I just don't know my coworkers like that. When I am with friends I am more lax, but I really am myself when I am alone. I've caught myself acting flat out crazy before, having an argument with a different side of me. It's rather interesting to look at it in past-tense, but at the time it's just flat out weird.
None. Then again, I'm not a socially awkward introvert that acts like a 14-year-old girl around my friends, so I've got that going for me.
Lesson: Quit acting like a 14-year-old girl. Or something.
Lesson: Quit acting like a 14-year-old girl. Or something.
Uh, none. I live my life as I see fit. Considering how many public crossplay pictures are floating and linked around here, I'd say it's pretty obvious how little effort I put into trying to follow "social norms".
I like to believe that there is not such thing as a "normal" person. Im not going to say "we're all unique", im just making the statement that as long as I think no one is normal, then everything I do is more or less awesome.
I live an interesting life...
Would you like to pat my pet Lemur?
I live an interesting life...
Would you like to pat my pet Lemur?
Normal is subjective what might seem Normal to me could be seen as very weird to someoene else.
I just try to enjoy life and don't really care what most people think about me.
I just try to enjoy life and don't really care what most people think about me.
I have a very active imagination and sometimes when I'm thinking about something I get balled fists and my arms are shivering. I try to hide that =)