[RareBird]

Does anyone else feel like we are way out there and weird? I have a friend that keeps telling me that I am weird. I know I am different but are we really weird?

 

[scude]

Growing up, my sister would insist: "Why can't you just be normal" - that sticked with me. Yes, I've definately felt and do feel weird. But mainly because of the things I enjoy... Sometimes seem weird to people. I don't particularly enjoy the things most people seem to enjoy, and vice versa. That makes me feel weird sometimes.
Yeah.

 

[RareBird]

I get side tracked with a fascination and I become like a steam roller and go off into all different directions. The only person I found that can keep up with me is my INFP friend. She seems to get me and says I am not weird in the least.

 

[penchant]

Different from everyone I know? Yes. Weird? No.

And this getting sidetracked this is so me too... :crazy:

 

[RareBird]

Different from everyone I know? Yes. Weird? No.

And this getting sidetracked this is so me too... :crazy:

So not just me? All right! I love the way I go off in so many different directions.

 

[Dalien]

Weird? No. Different, oh heck yeah. I didn't get the name Dalien for nothing! :laughing: My family and closer friends actually do call me that! A very close friend of mine gave me the nickname.

Count me in my mind goes off in so many different directions too! I can't keep up with the words in my head so many times, hence word association game my subconscious plays! I have to focus very hard!

 

[RareBird]

Yes me too. I came here for one purpose and now I am all over the place with my thoughts and research. This place is awesome!

 

[penchant]

Yes me too. I came here for one purpose and now I am all over the place with my thoughts and research. This place is awesome!

All over the place... hmmm.... If it weren't for eating, sleeping or my wife, I could probably spend a full month on Wikipedia just trying to figure literally everything out. :crazy:

 

[zwanglos]

Does anyone else feel like we are way out there and weird?

I basically wear this as a badge of pride.

 

[raj]

I basically wear this as a badge of pride.

yeah, i feel like i pride myself in my individuality and fuct-up weirdness.

 

[Null]

I get told it every day.

 

[SarahWilliams]

you feel different?

well no kidding.

i feel like most of my life is spent coping with the masses. and then various people get impressed that, hey!, im different. the extent to which is noticable - really depends on who im with at the time.

ive .always. felt different.

 

[vel]

Being in a 1-2% of cognitive phenotype of the human population will make you feel different guaranteed.

I concluded that I must be significantly different from others at age 14-15. At times I even felt crazy but then I couldn't dismiss that I was very similar to other people at the same time - I went to school, did homework, got good grades, had crushes on guys, then went to college, etc. I had a bipolar friend (I think she was INFP) who had way more issues than me and often contemplated suicide, a friend from completely dysfunctional family, introverted friends like myself who hated their introversion, and then of course there were people who feel into substance abuse or got pregnant in their teens, etc. Once in a while people committed suicide here and there, that I heard stories of or read about. Compared to all this I felt like I had my share of weirdness but so did other people too.

 

[Susanna]

Being in a 1-2% of cognitive phenotype of the human population will make you feel different guaranteed.

I concluded that I must be significantly different from others at age 14-15. At times I even felt crazy but then I couldn't dismiss that I was very similar to other people at the same time - I went to school, did homework, got good grades, had crushes on guys, then went to college, etc. I had a bipolar friend (I think she was INFP) who had way more issues than me and often contemplated suicide, a friend from completely dysfunctional family, introverted friends like myself who hated their introversion, and then of course there were people who feel into substance abuse or got pregnant in their teens, etc. Once in a while people committed suicide here and there, that I heard stories of or read about. Compared to all this I felt like I had my share of weirdness but so did other people too.

That first sentence made me laugh. When I first found out I was INFJ and less than 2% of the population I had a good friend say you mean Yer a freak? That made me laugh too.

 

[DasPhillipBrau]

Yes I do feel im extremely different to others...im unique and I love that, its cool being an INFJ :tongue:

 

[Jwing24]

We all take our own path. I am taking mine as well.

 

[Ćerulean]

We all take our own path. I am taking mine as well.

Live and let live FTW.

 

[penchant]

At times I even felt crazy but then I couldn't dismiss that I was very similar to other people at the same time - I went to school, did homework, got good grades, had crushes on guys, then went to college, etc. I had a bipolar friend (I think she was INFP) who had way more issues than me and often contemplated suicide, a friend from completely dysfunctional family, introverted friends like myself who hated their introversion, and then of course there were people who feel into substance abuse or got pregnant in their teens, etc. Once in a while people committed suicide here and there, that I heard stories of or read about. Compared to all this I felt like I had my share of weirdness but so did other people too.

haha, well we seem to attract other not-so-normal people... And in the end, I think I do feel that's a good thing, I think I need that somehow...

 

[Zomboy]

I didn't feel like I was weird so much as I felt I was missing something from the rest of the human race.

But that is also a common trait among Aspies. When I learned about asperger syndrome, I stopped feeling so weird.

Now I think everyone else is strange.

 

[User]

The more you look weird to others, the more you are a personality. That is why I practise ADD, o sh.. pancake rain D: .