Lillikoi wrote:
If we're being honest, sometimes
I do act more clueless than I am because I think it looks "cute," and I just want to be seen as cute and funny and charming, but...
I think a lot of the mannerisms I've adopted are just because people would see them as quirky or distinctive.
I think a lot of the reason I try to be funny is because I used to try to defuse situations through humor, and that was the only way I would be able to make anyone happy...
I'm actually guilty of the same type of thing, except that I would try to present myself as being smarter then I really was because that was the only way I knew how to get people to notice me and like me.
One of my old elementary school friends thought me how to solve a Rubik's Cube once, and after some practice I got pretty fast at it. In elementary school it worked well to impress people but eventually more people learned to do it too and it became less impressive, so instead I tried everything I could to be the best at it by getting faster and by taking on different sized cubes. Currently I can solve a standard 3x3x3 cube in 55 seconds, a 2x2x2 in 20 seconds, and a 7x7x7 in 20 minutes.
Since my biggest special interest has always been space travel, I would also sometimes try to impress people with my knowledge about it because most people can't name all known dwarf planets off the top of their head or state facts about all 17 Apollo missions.
Interestingly, my character Michael Watt is loosely based on the person I pretended to be, and to make him less of a marry sue I included things like consequences for actions that were honestly selfish and short sighted on his part like the whole starting the Great Solar War thing. Much of Mike's backstory is based on daydreams I had as a kid that I re-imagined as an adult but with realistic consequences.
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Also known as MarsMatter.
Diagnosed with Asperger's, ADD, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder in 2004.
In denial that it was a problem until early 2016.
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