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I dont think you are eccentric. I think you are just lonely and trying to come up with stories to push others buttons or to get rep points or whatever your agenda for the day is.
Recently since I have gone into semi retirement I have become more weird and eccentric.
I just don't care to play by their rules anymore!
In the past I worked so hard to try to act mainstream and normal and be like most everyone else. I did not want to say the wrong thing and feared being outspoken or talkative thinking I would lose the respect of people by saying or doing something unusual.
Now I enjoy being kind of different and like to say things to people I meet that challenge them and see what they will say or do. A study in human nature. Not weird like mental case just a bit eccentric.
Would it bother you if people said you were weird or eccentric, or do you try hard to be normal?
Give us five examples of how you are eccentric, please.
Give us five examples of how you are eccentric, please.
I've been wondering about that too. The way I've always heard it is rich people are eccentric, poor people are just crazy. I don't think he's rich.....
I respectfully disagree. I am way more eccentric than I appear to anyone who doesn't know me really well. I just don't relay my every eccentric thought, habit, and action to everyone around me. I used to be more forthcoming, and being more honest about my eccentricities just brought me misunderstandings, condescension, and isolation.
It's not that I am not afraid of who I am, I just like to have some semblance of a normal social life and I don't want to be marginalized in my own community.
I do understand what you mean about being marginalized, but what you are describing sounds more like behavioral mental health issues (thoughts, responses, actions) than what typically is thought of as "eccentric" public behavior, i.e., way of dressing, choice of career, lifestyle ("cat lady") etc.
Also, some folks might consider such things as Pagan/Wiccan rituals, for example, as "eccentric" and they would hide those behaviors . . . but that is *not* eccentric behavior. It is a philosophy and lifestyle.
So perhaps "being eccentric" means different things to different folks.
Recently since I have gone into semi retirement I have become more weird and eccentric.
You are on Parenting complaining about young people staring at their phones.
That's about as mainstream retired guy as it gets. Eccentric old guys are showing the kids how to make solar powered phones out of paper towel tubes, twist ties and parts from a Commodore 64. Not complaining about "these kids today!!!!"
There were lots of fellow eccentrics in my job hunting support group who faced long term unemployment. Because we were weird we had to be twice as good to move ahead in corporate America. We weren't and are still unemployed. People are afraid of eccentrics unless they are in the performing arts and whose talent makes up for their weirdness.
Can you give some examples of this "weirdness" or eccentricities? Like, do you wear mismatched socks and a fedora? Do you view hygiene as voluntary? Do you think all cats should be banned from the country and dogs should have a place at the presidential cabinet?
Personally, one of my resolutions this year was to try to be myself more and not give in to the sometimes silly norms of society, and also be more accepting of others.
I've gotten to the age where I don't give a rats behind what people think of me.
That is so funny hahaaaa, I found what you said very funny. I sort of want to be the same, but more reasonably not caring, sometimes I feel to do some crazy things
Recently since I have gone into semi retirement I have become more weird and eccentric.
I just don't care to play by their rules anymore!
In the past I worked so hard to try to act mainstream and normal and be like most everyone else. I did not want to say the wrong thing and feared being outspoken or talkative thinking I would lose the respect of people by saying or doing something unusual.
Now I enjoy being kind of different and like to say things to people I meet that challenge them and see what they will say or do. A study in human nature. Not weird like mental case just a bit eccentric.
Would it bother you if people said you were weird or eccentric, or do you try hard to be normal?
I would consider it a grand compliment if I were called weird. Who wants to be like everyone else?
He used to make threads not based on fake stories?
Anyway, yeah, actually I am, with regard to strangers and new acquaintances offline. "Weird" I presume to be an insult. I got too much teasing in childhood and general right-off-the-bat lousy treatment into early adulthood that I put a premium on seeming inoffensive and not outwardly strange. I think "eccentric" fits me, though I think "idiosyncratic" is more precise and I don't consider myself very imaginative the way eccentric-looking people seem to be. I like to look stylish, but until recently I couldn't make myself do anything well outside the norm, like modifying my own clothes by sewing on patches. Well, I haven't done that and don't sew But I did something and am getting used to it. I do want to be spotted by like-minded people, and it's possibly dishonest to go around looking quite normal when that's not required. Plus, I get bored with sameness and view my exterior and social demeanor as mediums to tinker with and dislike feeling left behind in normal-town as men's fashion becomes more creative (in sometimes jarring ways that I won't emulate).
I'm rarely inclined to talk much with new people, which means I seldom worry about verbally "outing" myself except as oddly quiet.
I hope that gradually someone who interacts with me realizes I'm "different," in a good way.
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But I did something and am getting used to it. I do want to be spotted by like-minded people, and it's possibly dishonest to go around looking quite normal when that's not required. Plus, I get bored with sameness and view my exterior and social demeanor as mediums to tinker with and dislike feeling left behind in normal-town as men's fashion becomes more creative (in sometimes jarring ways that I won't emulate).
