I feel I disagree. Those who get mad at being called weird just haven’t learned to accept and embrace their weirdness yet. It took me a while. And I still sometimes feel the need to hide it. It can take a while to work through.
Don’t see how this is a disagreement. If you don’t accept and embrace your weirdness then you’re bad weird. Doesn’t mean you can’t change to good weird. “Accept and embrace” doesn’t mean shout it from the rooftops btw, just means you don’t try to stifle it.
I think I may have been reading too much into the word “bad” implying as if the person themself is bad since they still dislike being referred to as weird.
I think it can also depend on who calls you weird and why/how. I’ve received both the negative, “ew, you’re weird” reactions as well as positive ones. Like a friend calling me a “strange human being” in an endearing way; or another saying I’m 80/20 with my weirdness. With 80% being good weird and the remaining 20% just plain weird. I think being called weird in a positive way can help with embracing it.
When I was 12 or so and called weird it effected mv confidence. Now I love it. The trouble is there is the weird some people want to be, and their is the weirdo fucking no one wants to be.
I feel I disagree. Those who get mad at being called weird just haven’t learned to accept and embrace their weirdness yet. It took me a while. And I still sometimes feel the need to hide it. It can take a while to work through.
raise your freak flag when no one’s looking
have it half mast when your friends’ around
stuff it under the bed when family’s about
This is the way. Even if anime is widely accepted and loved nowadays, I still refuse to speak with anybody about it unless they bring it up first.
Don’t see how this is a disagreement. If you don’t accept and embrace your weirdness then you’re bad weird. Doesn’t mean you can’t change to good weird. “Accept and embrace” doesn’t mean shout it from the rooftops btw, just means you don’t try to stifle it.
I think I may have been reading too much into the word “bad” implying as if the person themself is bad since they still dislike being referred to as weird.
I think it can also depend on who calls you weird and why/how. I’ve received both the negative, “ew, you’re weird” reactions as well as positive ones. Like a friend calling me a “strange human being” in an endearing way; or another saying I’m 80/20 with my weirdness. With 80% being good weird and the remaining 20% just plain weird. I think being called weird in a positive way can help with embracing it.
When I was 12 or so and called weird it effected mv confidence. Now I love it. The trouble is there is the weird some people want to be, and their is the weirdo fucking no one wants to be.
And the only way to meet your true lifelong friends, the ones who become framily, are the ones who know your weirdness and embrace it.