AIBU to dislike being called weird?

[HarryPottersMagicWand]

It pops up every now and again. People, friends really, say I'm weird. I don't particularly like it. It's hardly a compliment.

I don't think I am. I have my little ways, they don't affect anybody in any way but I like to do certain things in a certain way and I'm happy with that. Sometimes I don't even know why they are saying it. One (ex) friend has said it more than once. It makes me reluctant to even say anything at all past superficial chat.

Take it as a compliment OP. Next time someone says that thank them. Weird is good.

People have always called me weird and I haven't ever really minded.
I like being me. And I like the other weirdos. :)

Everyone is weird in some way, everyone has their own quirks or ways of doing something that would be weird to someone else. If they dont then that in itself is weird. People should embrace their inner weirdo (otherwise known as individuality). I love seeing peoples weirdness and all the things that make them unique, i find that the people that try to "fit in" and be like everyone else are usually pretty dull.

it does depend on tone and intent of theyre laughing an just saying youre weird but smiling dont take it to heart

unlike the previous pp whose mother has gone too far with it saying anyone who wants to be with u must be weird

i like being weird makes me feel special

I'm weird, my DP's weird, my DD is weird. Even Dog is bloody weird.

We're very happy.that way, thank you very much :-)

We need a bigger bench (and nibbles)

Yay for quirkiness and weirdness who wants to be beige.

I think I first really embraced my inner quirk when I was fifteen and through a series of events ended up changing schools and ended up as "the new girl" in a school half my primary school mates had gone to. So I actually knew quite a few people but was still new so without the baggage of belonging to any one peer group. I confused the heck out of a lot of people as I refused to be pigeonholed or labelled . I was the only person in the year who could get away with spending Friday nights out dancing with the soul girls and Sunday nights with the rock chicks at gigs. I actually had people say "but you can't be friends with X as well as Z as they belong to different groups" I'd just smile and say "well I like them both so I can" and no one could give me a reason why I shouldn't and I think I maybe gave some people a bit of food for thought about stereotypes. I still like Motown as well as Rock even now 😀

What exactly are the - allegedly - weird things you do?

I would like to know as well. Chances are that they aren't weird at all.

|------| Bigger bench. All individuals welcome.

"If I'm weird, they're boring underlings." Love this.

acasual I honestly don't know! The only examples I can remember are, I like to use a certain pen for certain things, and I will stick to that pen for this thing. Eating, I don't eat everything, I'm not the fussiest person, there is plenty I eat but textures are a bit of a thing and smells, I don't like certain food touching each other and I eat things in a certain order and 1 at a time, I wouldn't start eating some veg, then go to meat, then back to veg etc. Most people don't actually notice this but it's one that has stuck on my mind. My eating habits are of no consequence to anyone so I don't feel they should comment on it.

They are the only examples i can think of. I know there are more but I just can't remember them. Sometimes I think people think it but don't say it. For a significant birthday I got something I had been desperate for and was telling a friend and was literally jumping up and down and flapping about in excitement and my friends DH was looking at me like this . Oh well, I was very excited!

I hate being called weird or crazy, but I suppose it's better than being called boring.

"They laugh because I'm different. I laugh because they're all the same"

I brought my own bench. Not sure if it's big enough, there's that many of us out there. If I'm called weird I just think or if I'm brave say better than being a judgemental fucker person.

Oops forgot to show the bench.

I've also been called prim and proper, and a librarian (I'm not), great surprise in my taste in music - apparently I dont look like i would like that. Great suprise when people get to know me and they realise I am nothing like they have percieved me. I prefer a family members version "you come across as respectable but you have a wild side" .

I think I get judged a lot! Why do people even care?

Oh well, there are plenty of us around so we can reveal in it together. I can see a lot of me in DS so he can join us too and celebrate it.

That's a great bench.

Are you me? I just look prim and proper, but I'm not in real life.

People couldn't believe that DD and I went to Leeds festival last year, for example, or that I drunk enough to give me a hangover last weekend.

Sorry, but I do think the food thing is a teeny weeny bit odd though.

Budge up on the weird bench for me please. People look at me like just because I don't like chocolate cake / mousse / ice cream / hot chocolate / double choc biscuits etc. I like chocolate itself, just not stuff with cocoa powder or messed with chocolate.

They think I'm prim & proper at first as well. It's probably how I got away with so much at school - it can't possibly be iklboo who did that!

Yes, I think I would find your eating style a tad weird but I do realise that would actually be my problem. I would also be far too polite to indicate that I'd noticed.

People say I'm weird. Better weird than dull. Although as I'm quite intelligent I think I get to be called eccentric.

I'll get back to writing my poem about the adventures of a poo now.

"I would also be far too polite to indicate that I'd noticed."

Same here

I'm weird. I was an abused child and my parents continued to abuse me as an adult. When they started on my dcs I went no contact and moved house so they don't know where we are. That's enough surely... but I'm interested in things that are not mainstream. I have a different way of looking at the world. I bumped into one of the school mum's while walking the puppy. We chatted and she almost ran off at the first opportunity. She won't even meet my eye. I told her about a group of school mum's at ds2's infant school that would have cocaine parties on a Friday night. Not including me!
Ds1 has been called weird at school. He is interested in science, like cloning and gene splicing. He's 11. He doesn't like football either!

I'm weird. I know it and i embrace it,when other people mention it i'm like "i know!!!" I don't even care if they mean it in a good or bad way.
As for food...i only like pasta with cheese and butter,and at the end i add sugar in it so i have desert as well. Oh and my right eye twitches when i eat so it always looks like i'm winking at my food.

I've been called it all my life - and not always in a complimentary way.

Stuff them. I'd rather be "weird" than follow the crowd. It's an individual assessment anyway.

I want timely's quote on some of that rude bunting.