Are you okay with being different or...?

I was always the different one. I was short, skinny, and red headed. I was made fun of and tortured. Well, I finally grew and now I have a wonderful girl who loves me dearly and a daughter that only knows me as "daddy." I am perfectly happy with hwho I am now. Actually I have ran into some of the people that used to make fun of me and now they are actually jealous of me so Karma lives on my friend. The better person will always win in the long run.

Ohh yess..The finding of yourself stages..what a mess that was huh? Iremeber in 7th grade is when it all went downhill..i wanted to be accepted so much that i made myself turn into soemone I wasnt..then in 10th grade..yes that long..I started to relize that i didnt need the fake frieds in my life..and slwoly started making my own choices on how i wanted to dress not what i shoudl dress like..then by senior year i was all me..and still am lol..I wore what i wanted..told people what i thought and didnt care if i wasnt cool for it..had my own style in everything..and stuck up for those that were being bullied..I lost myself along the way in my young twenties..when i just..i dont know what happened..I drank..somked pot..partied all the time....but then I got prganant..and stopped..danced a 180..and became the eprson i am today..:)

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I was ok through grade school but when I began middle school I started to mature very early and very quickly. I was probably the first kid in the class to shave and thought it cool to grow a mustache over the summer between the sixth and seventh grades. I also had chest hair soon thereafter and was voted the guy with the prettiest legs in 8th grade. why that, who knows....they were hairy but beyond that they were just legs. I felt very different during this time. Guys didn't think I was cool, girls kind of did but that would make it worse with my guy friends because they would kind of be jealous. It totally ruined my school days then. I started partying with older kids, sneaking out and sleeping with older girls and eventually getting a girl pregnant. Unfortunatley becoming a father in ninth grade did nothing to help the situation. Eventually, I was allowed to transfer schools and really start over. My last couple years in school then were much better. But my memories are pretty well shaded by those earlier years.

I love to be different, who wants to be ordinary, ordinary is boring. I like to be spontaneous, and unpredictable, I like to keep them guessing.

For some kids, they need to hide their true identity and act like a different person because they want to be part of the "IN" group. But as they continued to be within this group, slowly, they will forget about who they are really. For the most part of my childhood days, there were many bad as well as good memories. I never tried to pretend to be another person. My friends love me for who I am. You have the prerogative to show your true self to selected few friends. A lot of people might not understand you for being you, Joey...but they need to know that they have their own flaws too. We tried to respect a person for who they are. I can't change myself either if people don't like me. I am who I am.

When I was younger, I always desired to belong. I hated those days. Right now, that is one of my gauge to know whether or not I'm maturing. I believe I've grown up by outgrowing my wanting to always be "jiggy with others". I now love being in tune with other people but sometimes I like isolating myself at times when everybody seems to be doing the same things already just to look cool. It gets me into trouble sometimes, and some people think I'm a bit unsociable. But I dont really care as long as the people I really care about know who I truly am. We can't really please everybody.

i was like you in school joey. i used to get in with the wrong crowd of people just for fun as if u didnt in my school every one used to take the p**s out of you. thats why i am in college now. am basically doing now what i had missed in school. i get threw out of school at 15yrs old for smoking in the toilets during lesson time which unfourtanetly i got caught. before i was in with the wrong people but now i have realised its not the right thing to do if i wanna go far in life so now i just act like myself, who i usually am.

nope im not ok with being one..and i dont wish to be one..i always one to be myself all the time the real me even when im still in school...maybe its tough on you coz your a guy and need to be strong and go with the flow..and that i understand..

When I was really young I always wanted to belong but I was a quiet kid and the ones around me were all very outgoing and noisy so I was different. As I grew I started to like being different. I was pretty in high school and I was involved in a lot of things so I was pretty well known but I didnt want to be with the in crowd. At that time I went through my rebelious stage. I refused to join them for anything and I was like the underdog talking and mixing with all the kids that were picked on and not "the cool crowd".
Now Im just happy with who I am. I get along with some people and with some I dont. Thats life, Im okay with it. No two people are the same and why would you want to be like someone else when you can be your own person.

Actually, i have no problem being different and never had. i like(d) being different. It shows i have character and am true to the real me. i don't see a need to pretend to be someone i am not. Why bother? i don't care if people don't like me. i don't care if they don't like my look. It is what it is and i am who i am, so they can all bite me.