Is being called weird offensive to you?

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I was half-joking (although that definition was actually given to me) but I do tend to be pollysyllabic, have been as long as I could talk, apparently.

Depends on the tone of voice. If I can tell the other person is joking and I know they like me, it's a compliment and a term of endearment. If I know they don't like me or they act superior and say it not in a friendly tone, I take it as an insult and feel angered.

How can weird possibly be an insult? It means you're unlike the idiot you're talking to/mainstream, and that's good.

I've long believed that most people are "weird" in their own ways. One of the things I really like about my AS bf is how 'different' he is than anyone else I've met.

weird Pronunciation Key (wîrd)
adj. weird·er, weird·est

1. Of, relating to, or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural.
2. Of a strikingly odd or unusual character; strange.
3. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.


Maybe 'odd' is a better word.

Although I disagree with this on quite some level, when you're talking to any idiots you are right.

Gave me a chuckle, anyway. I'll say it to their face next time.

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I'm called wierd, all the time. I take it as a compliment. There were a few times when I was called worse things than that. Things that I don't wish to repeat. People tend not to want to repeat things that they were called, in School.

I've been called weird so much in my life that it's just part of the background noise.

But being called normal on the other hand... Watch Out!

I love being called weird. I like being different and seperated from the "normies". It just shows me there is some special aspect to me unique from anyone else.

I prefer being called "eccentric".

Because that's what I am. I am proud of my eccentricity.

But I have grown up with the word "weird" thrown at me like an insult, so naturally, I don't see people the use the term mean anything good by it.

Throughout my school years, it was always an insult and it hurt me. But now, mainly it seems to be said in a jokingly endearing way... I don't mind NTs poking mild fun at my weirdness... I know I can be a little strange and amusing to them. As others have said, it's just pointing out the truth. It's part of who I am. I'm weird. I just tell 'em "oh yeah? well *you're* weird to me ". 'Cause they are. And that's a truth too.

Before I had AS, or figured out I did, being called weird always sent me in a downward depressive spiral.

Now that I know I have AS, I take it as a compliment.

People always said I was weird, but that it was a good weird. I never knew what it was about or what made me weird, but since they always insisted it was a good thing I didn't mind much. Only a couple of years ago when I stumbled upon AS criteria did a lot of things like that start to make sense to me. I didn't know the way I thought about things was so different than everyone else. I just thought I was a little different and didn't like all the same things that other people did.

I might be more sensitive to it today, I dunno. Nobody really says that these days. I am regarded as an eccentric, I suppose, and nobody needs to say much about it.

The question is does it really bother me that people call me weird. Usually not, and that bothers a lot of people. The fact is that if I had killed my self trying to not get teased or insulted I would have gotten nowhere.

How does that agrivate people:

1. Some of them have figured out that if they had burning urge to hurt me feelings (which they did) I actually thought it was arogant and silly. The silly part is thinking that it was even worth their time and emontional energy.

2. They could not stand the fact that I appearently missed their hidden message that I should quit at something (that is so say: "you should realize that your weird and deffective and that should discourage you" (Tese were someones exact words and they were correct I was so ussed on success I had no idea that my boss was sure that I would fail; further more I was determined not to be discouraged by anything.)


The bottom line is that it can be very lonely when people don't like you, but life is too short to worry get upset with people. They will get upset with me if I get upset with them or not, so they ought to do all the work.

Life on the whole is very happy

Why would anyone call someone else weird? Not a nice thing to say unless it's said with a smile and a nod of approval, as in 'you're wonderfully weird'. I prefer 'quirky' - I've been called that numerous times and have always taken it as a huge compliment. 'Eccentric' and 'unusual' to me are compliments, too.

It would depend on how the person said it. I've never been called weird by anyone other than my friends or family in a friendly teasing sort of way, so it doesn't offend me at all. I usually agree with them, or tell them that they are weird too.