I think you need better weirdos. None of the steange folk I’ve ever met are exclusionary.
Too weird for the normal people, too normal for the weird people...
Submitted 7 hours ago by ramble81@lemmy.zip to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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gustofwind@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
This sounds like what every almost entirely normal person thinks
ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Me too, my friend. Me too
hansolo@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
I just can’t jump the shark and commit to fully living in the weird people world. I actually love having a foot in both worlds most of the time, but it does get hard to vent and talk about things like the fucking Epstein files with normies.
astraeus@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
looking back i think i would’ve been happier if i embraced being a weirdo and focused on befriending other weirdos. just a thought op!
ashenone@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
There he goes. One of God’s own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
morto@piefed.social 6 hours ago
Meanwhile, I’m too weird even for the weird people…
nocteb@feddit.org 6 hours ago
Why do you think you don’t fit in?
lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
slazer2au@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Have you tried committing to one side or the other?
ramble81@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
I’ve tried, but the problem is I enjoy both and also apparently have commitment issues.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Nothing is binary
I took a bio psych class that got into neurotransmitters and shit, the professor started almost every class with:
“Normal” is just the average, if anyone was exactly “normal” they’d be the weirdest most unique human ever
Because a lot of people get freaked out about their own when they start learning about psychology or genetics, smacking them together and teaching 20 somethings is a recipe for existential crisis.
Your brain is sorting people into binary groups because that’s an easy shortcut our brain uses for everything. But what’s normal at the gathering of the juggalos is weird almost everywhere else. It’s all subjective and there’s a lot more ways than one to be normal.
Maybe someone is 99.9999% “normal” but they peel hard boiled eggs with their teeth like a psychopath. You’d never know till you saw them do it, but it would instantly recategorize them in your head as “weird” without a second thought.
But everyone knows they’re actually a unique snowflake, so it’s common for people to feel like they don’t belong to just one group. When it’s that everyone has that level of uniqueness, it’s just too much for our brains to keep track of, so we throw labels on people and treat them as groups.
StakeTheSteak@thelemmy.club 3 hours ago
I love my personality with this situation because my autism makes it almost impossible for me not to mask the people around me. I find myself fitting in with the most different groups purely because I’m open minded and masking everyone around me. Blessing and a curse for sure but learning how to refrain from saying things that are ‘weird’ to the current group has helped me a ton.
TheDoctorDonna@piefed.ca 6 hours ago
You accepting that you don’t fit into a box gives you a leg up on both the weirdos and the normal people. Everyone is a bit of both when the stop repressing themselves.
wabasso@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
Not sure if this will help you in your personal life, but I’ve been in your position and I’ve found I can be a “translator” in the workplace. You should be a PM of developers or something!
Reyali@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
You just described me. I don’t think I’d ever linked this particular part of my personality to why I enjoy and am good at being a product manager… I just always thought of it as enjoying being IT-adjacent without missing my saga of being in IT. But your reasoning makes so much sense!
It might also be why I feel like a different person at work than in my personal life—more confident, more outgoing… because I found a place where I actually fit, rather than being on the border of every group I’ve ever been a part of.