Do you find being a "freak" freeing?

Can't say I have any phobias. Here I am , this Is how I am, If you don't like it , TOUGH. Tell me you don't like it & I'll be nice & not bug you with it unless you piss me off, then I'll wave it in your face.

Haha, well I don't need one, but it helps with my social phobia. If I know someone already thinks I'm a freak, it makes it easier to be comfortable around them. You are indeed a very interesting individual! :P

That can be frustrating, but the best attitude is to consider it their loss and move on... There are many accepted 'norms' that I conform to, but I'm one of those that likes to question everything rather than just accept stuff as if it is almost predestined... Where I have taken a 'normal' path at least I know why!!

*nods* I agree that there is no "normal" realistically, but I think a lot of people have specific expectations and parameters for what normal means, and it can be both hard and gratifying to be outside of that.

I completely agree with you and have a similar philosophy. There is no absolute normal person. Everyone has some problems or secrets. I think people who are 'normal' just hide problems and don't deal with them. People who are freaks are healthier generally because they embrace their problems and differences and have the guts to be themselves.

"You only get one shot at life, so why not be free and instead of following the sheep syndrome be yourself" thats the key right there IMO..be free, be true to yourself your core being because you'll never TRULY be happy in life, you'll never TRULY know yourself which includes your abilities and potential etc or grow mentally/emotionally or spiritually if you arent free and true to you... "the sheep syndrome" LOL I love that!

Yup, being free is the key! :) Oh, I love that phrase "sheep syndrome" too. *laughs* If I couldn't turn negatives into positives, I wouldn't be around today.

Yea a lot of ppl in my life really dont get it either..sadly many in society mistakenly think that the freaks are unruley, hateful, vicious and dangerous slackers which I have to say p!sses me off to no bloody end...I'm none of those things (ok maybe a little unruley at times LOL)....Just because I walk to my own beat doesnt mean I'm evil..in fact I'd have to say that its actually just the opposite really!

Hi! :P I'm glad you understand about the honor code. I think a lot of people don't get that... I've had so many false assumptions made about my life just because I'm kind... and I'm like "Um, I have an honor code, but that doesn't mean I'm just like you, or I think the same way you do." Or the other way around, people will assume I'm a bad person because I'm so different, and then be surprised when I'm nice. *rolls her eyes*

Haha, I totally get what you're saying! People get entirely the wrong idea about what it means to be different!

I could see people calling you a freak over tattoos. Silly people. But yes, it does say very good things about you! :)

People are really silly. I agree with you that being labeled a freak is a positive thing because it says that I don't give into pointless societal demands. I love that you have horror tattoos! I was looking through a tattoo book with my friends at a shop the other day and they kept making comments on different pictures that were 'weird'. They couldn't understand why someone would get them. I told them that maybe the reason was personal and that we wouldn't know. I respect people who get original tattoos. If I'm going to have something on my body for the rest of my life I want it to be important to me and not be something that 5000 other people in my country have.

Oh, I remember you had a discussion about that one a while ago! :) I just wish people actually stopped trying to convert you after saying you're going to hell. That's never been my experience. In fact, I've never had anyone stop trying to convert me after starting, unless I physically managed to get away from them. :(

Hehe, you have a good point about the reactions! So much fun! I love that last line... it does indeed make the mundane manageable.

*nods* I was hoping this discussion wouldn't get into that level of negative territory. It is true that often people will do things that are very harmful out of anger at constantly being rejected by society, but there are also many of us who go through that same rejection and choose not to do so. For me it's just a matter of taking what people think of as an insult for you and choosing it as an affirmation for yourself! Making positive out of negative so to speak. :)

That is assuming that you are able to differentiate between what people think, and what you think. There are some people who has no opinion of their own. If a bully were to come up to one of these people and call him or her a freak, he or she will actually believe it. As with the saying goes, what you think will translate what you do. What you believe will translate to what you think. So if the a person believes that being called a freak means that he or she is one, they will behave so. All these people need is a little guidance to get back on the right path. Sadly, many people who have this behavior, does not seek help in time. So they take it out on the society that lashed out at them in the first place. Again, the definition of a freak behavior is really varied, depending on the tolerance level of out-of-norm behavior.

That's interesting, how each generation seems to have their own word for that sort of thing! It's great that she feels good about herself for who she is though! I love not being tied down to what others think, it's wonderful! :)

Hehe! How cute! What a hilarious story, thanks for sharing! :)

Hmm, that's interesting. I wonder what it is about me that people do try to dis me in this way. :P I have a social phobia issue, so I tend to be reserved unless I'm around people I know very well. Which is possibly why the word freak does what it does to me... once I realize people already think I'm strange, my social phobia becomes less of an issue because I know their perception of me can't really get worse.

I'm kinda a punk hippie so my attire is not always what most people would wear. I've had my hair buzzed a couple times. I've had a mohawk. I've had half my head shaved with only bangs. Basically any colour under the rainbow my hair has been. Its even been rainbow coloured. I have a lot of body piercings. I wear scruffy clothing and kinda go out of the house in pjs sometimes without makeup or anything. I sewed cat ears on my hoody and black vinyl is my favourite material. I get called weird a lot but mostly by friends. My reply is usually, Yah of course. I'm am very straightforward and well tell my opinion openly. Soooo... I too have a little bit of social phobia... but to wear what I do and say what I say I gotta have some backbone... or else I'd never leave my house.. lol I guess thats the punk in me. that being said.... I'm older now and don't have as many piercings. My hair is currently long and blonde. I'm a little more discret for the sake of harmony with my opinions. I've had some guy stop at a stop light (both in cars) roll down his window to say you don't kiss your mother with that haircut do you? My reply of course was well I don't know what you do with your mother but in my family we don't make-out with our relatives. I've also had people yell dy ke out their window as they drove by. No one really ever seems to have the guts to say it to my face though.

haha thats awesome! Yah its funny how we have to be someone else at work. I used to dye my hair crazy colours and wear a regular looking wig to work. It was funny this one customer was like do you have a sister with pink hair that goes to the college. I was nope... thats me ... I wear a wig to work.. She was shocked.. I had to show her. I try not to use the word dy ke. Despite being a punk and having a mouth like a trucker at the best of times. I'm actually very politically correct. but to give the people who called me that credit... I was bald at the the time and wearing no makeup. I wish women didn't have such hard standards to live up to. Its downright silly. People think I'm gay all the time for various stupid and random reasons. Like in highschool I was into female rights so some people thought I was gay. wtf!!?!

I know a lot of people who do things they aren't really happy with because of that fear of being singled out. It's so sad. Oh, that's an interesting way of looking at it, "freak" being the new "normal". Hmm.

I think the people who claim to be normal are just hiding something, but that doesn't change how the world looks at them and the rest of us. :P

Very well said, skinnychick! Freaks rule! :)

Ah, sigma, you're so deep. :P You have a very good point. Of course that since there is an "assumed normality" there is also "assumed abnormality" or "freakishness", but it is all based off assumptions, not reality. You're being far more serious than me, in this case. I have fun with other people's perceptions of me!