Do you wish you were more "weird"?

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So I just watched the movie Adam and enjoyed it quite a bit. I did notice that Adam was more "unusual" than I am, especially when it comes to talking. While, like him, I have a tendancy to talk on and on about my interests, I know that people aren't as interested as I am so rather than talk and talk and talk, I just shut up and don't say anything. That's just an example, but it made me think that it might be nice to be more weird because then people wouldn't expect you to be normal all the time. Because I can sometimes pass for normal, I'm expected to be normal all the time. Anyone else feel that way?

you are very wise. it is better to keep silent and thought daft-about, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt. this is what i try to do, so that i can sometimes pass for quiet-normal.

To the OP, I totally know what you mean! It would also be cool if I had my arms mangled in a horrible accident, so I could apply for social security and nobody would expect me to work and I could collect a welfare check for the rest of my life.

I think that but then I think I'd get yelled at a whole lot more.

I am weird...I guess...but I am weird enough that I don't fit into any peer group....I am awkward and unusual so that sometimes "cool" people will take a brief interest in me and then move on...as I "disqualify" myself from them pretty easily...Sometimes I wish I could really be crazy so that my music and art would be appreciated on those terms..like Daniel Johnston or Wesley Willis...but that is not the case with me....I am too crazy to be normal, too dumb to be insane....oh well...

No. I'm weird enough thanks.

The only people who get special treatment for mega weirdness are the super rich and the super successful.

No, I actually wish the opposite would happen.

It often seems the case to me that 'normal' people wish to be 'special' and special people wish to be 'normal'

A line in one of my songs goes

You laugh at me cos I'm different,
I laugh at you cos yr all the same.

Then I thought, hang on, nobody laughs at me now because of my AS, for although I no longer stay in compromising situations or when overwhelmed shy away from being open about my AS, externally I only appear deeply interested and intense amongst people.

I wish my parents were more accepting of my "weirdness" and just accept that I am a furry. I can't stand the thought of wearing a full body mascot suit outside of a convention but I would love to wear a tail now and then on ocassions such as Halloween and to the mall to see people's reactions. It would just justify my weirdness.

I love my weirdness, and I don't think I can get any more weird. I think it's kind of neat, being the 5th Kink. There were originally 4 of them, and that's why I say that I'm the 5th one, in a 60s sense.

It is true that an annoying thing about HFA/AS is that you appear normal so you're expected to be normal. But I rarely change who I am anymore, I'm just usually myself, and if myself is weird then so be it!

I think that I'm as weird as weird can be, and I like it.

Well, not more weird. But I kind of envy the people who are pretty unaware of themselves and don't care how they come across, I'm too aware of myself. I used to be oblivious when I was a kid but that changed when I got to highschool, I miss primary school when I was as weird as a box of frogs and not aware of it, I was happier then. Now I'm too aware of my emotional immaturity and how it messes everything up for example I do something stupid like have a tantrum then really regret it afterwards and "beat myself up" about it, 7 years ago I wouldn't have given a s**t.

No, I wish I was more normal. That way, obsessions wouldn't manifest my life, I'd be able to control my over-reactions (and not be afraid of getting sent to jail when I'm upset), and just that kind of stuff in general. I feel like I'm close to normallity, but I'm not so that does make things really hard on me sometimes since I can't really fit into either grouping.

Same, but reversed.

Me too. My "passing as normal," though, is a result of a lot of training for my job, from my family, and years of therapy. You make a good point -- it would probably be easier to get by if we could be ourselves and more obviously express our condition -- but I would think that is like going backwards.

By the way, I do the same thing about keeping my mouth shut vs. talking nonstop; however, for me, it's because 90% of the time when I say my opinion (or even something I thought/was taught is a fact), someone doubts or disagrees with me. Most people, in the end, do not like to hear what I have to say, so I stay quiet. Then people think I am shy.

People will have expectations of others no matter f*****g what. I am probably one of the very few (if any) people in this world who has extremely low expectations of others.

On a side note: PunkyKat! I just went shopping today and saw some really cute ears at Hot Topic! Do you ever go there for ears?