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What makes you "weird", different from the rest, "normal" people..?

Everyone always say I look like a sore thumb everywhere. Even someone who I just met and with whom I spent 2 weeks in a group during college immediately blurted out that I was plain weird.

People often mention my sense of joke (often referred as twisted, deadpan, or just simply funnily unfunny), my 'often situational inappropriate' responses, and my morbidness as some reasons. As well as my taste in music, my general dislike of action movies and sports (for guys), my love for unusual things, and my love for botanical stuff. When I was younger, being completely lacking in social skills and bad at sports were also often cited.

Sometimes I just don't understand it, because I don't consider these things weird, but apparently people do just because I don't seem to adhere to what people consider 'normal norm for normal people to behave and like and enjoy', to the point my sister said that I intentionally do and like weird things for the sake of being judged as weird. Weird heh.
 
freefall said:
Sometimes I just don't understand it, because I don't consider these things weird, but apparently people do just because I don't seem to adhere to what people consider 'normal norm for normal people to behave and like and enjoy', to the point my sister said that I intentionally do and like weird things for the sake of being judged as weird. Weird heh.
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I get this too, at times. And it always seemed a bit ludicrous back when I was a teenager, and it's gotten downright ridiculous now. Do you honestly think I spend all this time (and money) reading these books, buying these albums, shopping for these clothes...and I actually don't LIKE any of it? Isn't that a hell of a lot of effort to put into something I don't actually like, just so I WON'T Fit in? :)

Lex
 
"Normal" people are just so weird: and then they keep wondering why this or that truly "weird" thing happens among them... because they do not want to accept they are the real weird, and the weird are the normal exception.
 
Enh, I don't think normal people are "weird". I mean they might occasionally seem weird to me, in that they like some certain thing that I don't like, and occasionally I can't even fathom HOW they can like it. But most of the time, I just assume we're just different. "More people like that thing, which I'm not a fan of. Which is fine, because I like this other thing, and nothing's preventing me from liking it."

Lex
 
G-Lexington said:
"More people like that thing, which I'm not a fan of. Which is fine, because I like this other thing, and nothing's preventing me from liking it."
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But apparently not for some people.

For example, my mother and some insensitive pals I was close with, whenever they saw me or heard me enjoying my favourite movie/music would say my taste is weird (or morbid), and when I point out that a lot of people like it, they simply responded, "Yeah, weird people like you."

One even had the audacity to exclaim, "Well that's what you think," in an unmistakable mocking tone when I voiced my unpopular lukewarm reaction toward a very popular movie. I was more than ready to commit a violent murder had only a small coffee table not stood between us.
 
The thing is - my taste in music IS weird. As in "fewer people like it than like many other types of music". I can imagine being upset by people not "getting" my taste in music back when I was a kid, but nowadays, it doesn't bother me in the slightest.

I guess it helps that my parents were indulgent in this respect. They might in fact have told me that they found my musical taste "weird", but if they did, they also added something along the lines of "well, as long as you're enjoying it..."

Lex
 
freefall said:
One even had the audacity to exclaim, "Well that's what you think," in an unmistakable mocking tone when I voiced my unpopular lukewarm reaction toward a very popular movie.
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Titanic? Some F&F?
 
G-Lexington said:
The thing is - my taste in music IS weird. As in "fewer people like it than like many other types of music". I can imagine being upset by people not "getting" my taste in music back when I was a kid, but nowadays, it doesn't bother me in the slightest.

I guess it helps that my parents were indulgent in this respect. They might in fact have told me that they found my musical taste "weird", but if they did, they also added something along the lines of "well, as long as you're enjoying it..."

Lex
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That's because they do not actually mean the music, but the wrapping: the music you like could have a personal name attached to it, and be awarded many silly honours, and attached to some popular movie or play, then it would be a great piece of Americana... the music you quoted is no crappier than anything Jerry Herman composed.
 
G-Lexington said:
The thing is - my taste in music IS weird. As in "fewer people like it than like many other types of music". I can imagine being upset by people not "getting" my taste in music back when I was a kid, but nowadays, it doesn't bother me in the slightest.

I guess it helps that my parents were indulgent in this respect. They might in fact have told me that they found my musical taste "weird", but if they did, they also added something along the lines of "well, as long as you're enjoying it..."
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The thing is, my taste in music isn't that weird - just uncommon and sometime cryptic but not entirely weird.

But apparently, people around me judge music with choral/choir segments as death funeral themes; contemporary 20th century classical music as "My newborn baby can produce this sound by banging chairs and flinging toys to instrument pieces"; and usage of dissonance (like devil's interval)/'not beautiful' instruments/sounds, uncommon/irregular time rhythms, and lack of main melody/tune as incomprehensible ear-raping demonic devices.

Anyway, just curious, give us some sample of your preference in music.

belamo said:
Titanic? Some F&F?
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Bourne series.
 
freefall said:
The thing is, my taste in music isn't that weird - just uncommon and sometime cryptic but not entirely weird.

But apparently, people around me judge music with choral/choir segments as death funeral themes; contemporary 20th century classical music as "My newborn baby can produce this sound by banging chairs and flinging toys to instrument pieces"
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I love it when people say something of the sort. Like saying that Bach's fugues are just random noise on a keyboard, or that gardening shows no skill because that's something that nature does by itself.

freefall said:
and usage of dissonance (like devil's interval)/'not beautiful' instruments/sounds, uncommon/irregular time rhythms, and lack of main melody/tune as incomprehensible ear-raping demonic devices.
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It seems XVIIIth century Chinese found this to be some sort of "devil's music":

 
I have a very well developed sixth sense. I just know, see & feel things. Intuition? I am also a voracious reader.
 
I'm strange, no one remembers my name. :(

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freefall said:
Bourne series.
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You're not weird, you're nuts! :lol:

:jk:

I get that. I hate most popular dramas that people rave about. I never understood what everyone saw in American Beauty. I couldn't see why it would even have been made.
 
belamo said:
It seems XVIIIth century Chinese found this to be some sort of "devil's music":

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That is still considered 'normal classics'. Actually, pieces like these are considered some sort of 'devil's music':


even when they come from Debussy:


Most people indulge in the idea that classical music is always sparkling and beautiful like Mozart, Chopin, and Debussy. For Debussy, they mean Clair de Lune.
 
Alistair said:
I get that. I hate most popular dramas that people rave about. I never understood what everyone saw in American Beauty. I couldn't see why it would even have been made.
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I couldn't get past the pretentious first minutes: when a movie starts by making that use of voice-over, you know it's not likely to go well, all the more when it pretends to be witty and sarcastical... those Hecht scripts... cinema is literature like literature is painting, like an egg is a chesnut. You can be as random and pretentious as you want anywhere outside art-making: you can fail at being clever on the net, but you have no excuse for failing at it while making a movie or writing something pretending to be literature... you do not even have the excuse of having to make a living out of it, because nobody and nothing ever forces you to be a mediocre artist.
 
freefall said:
Anyway, just curious, give us some sample of your preference in music.
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As far as the stuff my parents considered weird, the first I recall them being a bit put off by was the Art of Noise.



Not so weird these days, but 1983 was a different time. :) I also recall them thinking I was an oddball for listening to this album a lot.



I go through cycles where I listen to different things. I was sort of in a 70s/80s funk phase, which has now led me into post-disco and post-punk, and especially the weird sort of areas where the two intertwined. It was an odd time. Disco had died a sudden death, and it was like nobody knew what to play at the clubs anymore. So there was a lot of tentative steps this way and that way, and plenty of dead ends...most of which deserved to be dead ends. But I'm intrigued by the dead ends all the same.



Lex
 
freefall said:
That is still considered 'normal classics'. Actually, pieces like these are considered some sort of 'devil's music':


even when they come from Debussy:


Most people indulge in the idea that classical music is always sparkling and beautiful like Mozart, Chopin, and Debussy. For Debussy, they mean Clair de Lune.
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Hahahaha! Szymanowski is Debussy's twin! Putting this


this


and this


together shows just the butchering they do to reduce totally different styles to the same burger for their ears.
 
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