adam wrote:

Jello wrote:

SierraNightTide wrote:
As children, we live boldly, seldom afraid or embarrassed to seek out what we want or to speak our minds. As we grow older, we tend to fold our inquisitive and creative minds and place them into a secret drawer while we chase career opportunities. Most times, or at least for most people we leave the drawer untouched, afraid that it might obstruct us in our career success as we conform to society’s acceptance of living.

Are you kidding? As a child I was terrified to be different. As an adult I came into my weirdness.

my bouts of psychosis have taught me the value of being normal (something often much underrated [people scoff and laugh at "the straight world" without understanding that they're often the median and core of our civilisation and usually they're honest, decent and tolerant]). I have also learnt that if i want to be tolerated i must tolerate in return.
Although it has to be said that different cultures have different attitudes towards conformity. I am lucky enough to be English and in my culture the eccentric is often valued.

There were times growing up where I revelled in being different. I think when you "grow up" you are supposed to lose your imagination, your sense of curiosity and your dreams. This should never be the case. People like us need to not worry about what "society" thinks about our idiosyncrasies.

If we look at the "normal" world, we see a lot of people who, at least on the surface, appear to be well adjusted, productive menbers of society. These are the people to watch out for. These are the people that we find out are the psychopaths, etc.

RE: The Difficulty of Being Different