Tired of being the "weird person"?

[Erana]

Actually I am weird because I never talk, kids will ask me why as if i were not talking on purpose. In my head, I just don't have the need to talk. Sometimes I will say something funny because I know they won't dislike it and because they things i can come up with on top of my head is BEWBS some kids think I am perverted. So what if seniors who don't know who I am make fun they will be gone in a month anyway.

I know what you mean... Except for the whole "bewbs" thing.
By the door just hours ago, someone asked how my day was, and I really didn't feel like formulating a response in language, so I said nothing. Then they start getting concerned, so I angrily shook my fist at the sky to show some sort of emotional response.
It appeased them, and they went away.

 

[Chadra]

I was the only kid in all of elementary school and most of middle who had any grasp of the nerd community. I knew the python jokes and etc but not anything that they knew about so I spent most of that time alone but then came along high school when suddenly I was friends with a whole lot of people and quicker with delivering the jokes because I knew them.

 

[Caimekaze]

It's cool you're asking for other stories, not just broadcasting a sob story (which is not to trivialize your situation).
I have birthmarks in my eyes. It's more prominent in the left, but it's hazel showing up in the blue. I guess old superstition says it makes my ornery. Maybe something to that.
I'm just surprised to hear that people are actually subscribing to an archaic "physical difference=demon" dogma.
Where do you live?

Are you sure that's a birthmark? It's often a form of heterochromia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterochromia].

 

[James Raynor]

"You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because your all the same."

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

I think red eyes would be fucking awesome! Though I hate religion so if i where causing chaos with a religious sect it would bring me sheer joy.

On Topic: I am the "wierd one" but im not the one noone wants to talk to, because i act eccentric in order to get the optimal reactions. If there's one thing I've learned from life it's that no one is as normal as they say they are or pretend to be. If you act normal, people around you act normal, but if you act weird, people will avoid you. I have found that the way to get the best results is to act in that fine area where you're weird enough to entertain someone but not weird enough to detour them. Accomplish that and people will show their true colors. Sometimes ironically this makes me look like the normal one. As little faith in humanity i have, people never cease to entertain me. Plus, I don't know about you, but I would much rather live a "weird" life than a monotonous lie of conformity [/inspirational speech]

 

[Saithed]

Sorry to hear about the closed-minded town you live in. Thankfully where i grew up in was so multi cutural no one cared how you looked. They did however care about strange little kids that knew everything. When i started school i was told to behave and pay attention so i did not just to class but what people say and did. fine for the first year or so but when you ask the teacher why she is having an affair with your freinds dad at the age of 6 it tends to freak people out. funny thing was the other kids didnt care only the adults.

 

[Ushario]

Eh sorry i'm not really buying it. Red eyes are extremely rare, unless you are of course, an albino, in which case it is simply a symptom of the lack of melanin.

The eyes of a person with albinism may appear red under certain lighting conditions due to the very low quantities of melanin.[56] "True" red eyes also exist in albinistic and even some non-albinistic populations, but are very rare. Only about 20 cases of natural red eyes are recognized throughout the world.[citation needed]

Your craving for others stories and the fact that you created your account today is leading me to believe that you are a troll, albeit an oddly harmless one so far.

I could of course be wrong, and you could in fact be telling the truth.

 

[sebar nl]

Are you tired of being the weird person that no one will talk to? Tell your tale and/or thoughts:

I was born with naturally red eyes (genetic defect) yet my right is darker than my left (which is also my worst eye). All my life I have been called a "witch", a "demon", and "the daughter of Satan" by people who saw my eyes. My parents were banned from their church because of this, and they've never forgiven me for it.

This changed (somewhat) in 2004 when I had to get corrective lenses for my left eye which was becoming worse, and contacts were my only option. I wanted to get a different colored iris to hide my left eye so my optometrist decided to make it green since green is the pposite of red on the color spectrum. So I ended up looking like Suiseiseki prior to Rozen Maiden. This was not a problem until I enter high school 3 years ago, and by then a few had seen RM. So then I became the laughing stock of my school.

Now they call me a "nerd" and a cosplayer" and that I dyed my hair brown (which I didn't). My reputation is so trashed at school that no one will talk to me except for my boyfriend will talk to me. I have to keep Clorox wipes in my locker because someone writes "Desu" all over my locker every day. It gets even worse when I get home, where my parents want nothing to do with me.

seriously you need to move too a place where not everyone is retarded.

 

[Inverse Skies]

Are you tired of being the weird person that no one will talk to? Tell your tale and/or thoughts:

I was born with naturally red eyes (genetic defect) yet my right is darker than my left (which is also my worst eye). All my life I have been called a "witch", a "demon", and "the daughter of Satan" by people who saw my eyes. My parents were banned from their church because of this, and they've never forgiven me for it.

This changed (somewhat) in 2004 when I had to get corrective lenses for my left eye which was becoming worse, and contacts were my only option. I wanted to get a different colored iris to hide my left eye so my optometrist decided to make it green since green is the pposite of red on the color spectrum. So I ended up looking like Suiseiseki prior to Rozen Maiden. This was not a problem until I enter high school 3 years ago, and by then a few had seen RM. So then I became the laughing stock of my school.

Now they call me a "nerd" and a cosplayer" and that I dyed my hair brown (which I didn't). My reputation is so trashed at school that no one will talk to me except for my boyfriend will talk to me. I have to keep Clorox wipes in my locker because someone writes "Desu" all over my locker every day. It gets even worse when I get home, where my parents want nothing to do with me.

Albinism? I'm really sorry to hear about your sad tale, especially the banning from church bit. That just shows a level of ignorance which astonishes me, especially from a religious organisation which is supposed to be about love and compassion. My heartfelt condolences towards you and your plight. Luckily, the Escapist is a forum which won't judge you harshly for something as trivial as eye colour. I hope you enjoy your time here and feel welcomed by the community.

 

[Caimekaze]

Albinism? I'm really sorry to hear about your sad tale, especially the banning from church bit. That just shows a level of ignorance which astonishes me, especially from a religious organisation which is supposed to be about love and compassion. My heartfelt condolences towards you and your plight. Luckily, the Escapist is a forum which won't judge you harshly for something as trivial as eye colour. I hope you enjoy your time here and feel welcomed by the community.

I was think albinism, but she said she has brown hair.
=/

 

[Inverse Skies]

I was think albinism, but she said she has brown hair.
=/

Obviously not then, the melanin pigment isn't expressed properly in albinism at all. That'll teach me for not reading properly.

 

[Caimekaze]

I was think albinism, but she said she has brown hair.
=/

Obviously not then, the melanin pigment isn't expressed properly in albinism at all. That'll teach me for not reading properly.

It's very odd. My grammar in my sentence was absolutely awful, which was also rather odd.

Due to this thread I discovered that I had central heterochromia, so that's cool.

 

[US Crash Fire]

Are you tired of being the weird person that no one will talk to? Tell your tale and/or thoughts:

I was born with naturally red eyes (genetic defect) yet my right is darker than my left (which is also my worst eye). All my life I have been called a "witch", a "demon", and "the daughter of Satan" by people who saw my eyes. My parents were banned from their church because of this, and they've never forgiven me for it.

This changed (somewhat) in 2004 when I had to get corrective lenses for my left eye which was becoming worse, and contacts were my only option. I wanted to get a different colored iris to hide my left eye so my optometrist decided to make it green since green is the pposite of red on the color spectrum. So I ended up looking like Suiseiseki prior to Rozen Maiden. This was not a problem until I enter high school 3 years ago, and by then a few had seen RM. So then I became the laughing stock of my school.

Now they call me a "nerd" and a cosplayer" and that I dyed my hair brown (which I didn't). My reputation is so trashed at school that no one will talk to me except for my boyfriend will talk to me. I have to keep Clorox wipes in my locker because someone writes "Desu" all over my locker every day. It gets even worse when I get home, where my parents want nothing to do with me.

if someone makes fun of you be referincing an obscure anime THEY are the odd ones. and you should never hide who you are. if your parents never forgive you, tell them its THEIR fault for giving your THEIR genes. im sure you are very beautiful. and you need to feel that twords yourself. if you need to talk my myspace is www.myspace.com/robxero. remember that the sooner you are comfortable with who you are, the sooner you can gain the confidence to take charge of your own life. you dont have to prove yourself to anyone!

 

[Khedive Rex]

I moved around incessantly as a child; often between states (I've moved 18 times in 18 years across nine states. And my folks aren't even in the military or anything). Thus, wherever I went, I was perpetually "The New Kid".

I think the only part about it that really bothered me were the people who figured "He's new and shy. Lets go and make friends!" It always took them a few weeks to realize that it wasn't "shyness" but "apathy and misanthropy" they were detecting.

Oh, and I suffer from no pressure of speech whatsoever. I've learned to avoid awkward pauses in conversation, mainly because they're awkward for other people and I'm the accomidating sort, but when I was young you could walk directly up to me, wave and introduce yourself and I'd be as likely to nod and go about my business as anything else. The amount that people speak use to really annoy me; I thought it distracted them from other things and made what they say seem less important simply because there was more of it. As I said though, I've come to accept that humans are chatty by nature.

That being said though, I still avoid loud noisy groups whenever I can convienentally. There are a lot of days where I'll get a lunch and eat it outside by myself (technically breaking school policy but really, who cares?) in preference to sitting in a packed cafeteria listening to people trying to shout to each other over the noise of other people trying to shout to each other.

As for the OP, thats a really screwed situation. I don't really know what advice to give except, if you have the means, move away. You're a victim of your environment much more than your circumstances. Having two different colored eyes (or even having straight up red eyes) really shouldn't have ruined your life by itself. In another town it'd probably have been a boon.

Yeah ... get out as soon as you can. Wherever you're living, it's really not where you're supposed to be.

 

[Inverse Skies]

It's very odd. My grammar in my sentence was absolutely awful, which was also rather odd.

Due to this thread I discovered that I had central heterochromia, so that's cool.

I wish you'd known that a few days ago, you could have shown me! That would have been cool, I love it when people's eyes are different colours, it's very unique.

 

[Delicious]

People used to make fun of me a lot in school. The things that set me apart are my heritage, and my hair color. I was born in Sweden, and I moved to America when I was six. Everybody back then had blond hair, so the only thing that really made me stick out was my accent. I did like being noticed, but I hit a huge low when pretty much everybody's hair changed to brown or black. I stuck out like a sore thumb, and anybody that talked to me called me a dumb blond, even though I was one of the three highest scoring mathematics in my class (The third-place one copied off me all the time, but I was just glad that he didn't call me names). They also began calling me a bone-headed viking, and that I would probably rape any girls that I dated. Now people call me gay because I like to dress fashionably, and I actually care about how I look. Weird, right?
I hated everyone that talked to me that way, so I started fighting, and that just led me down more wrong paths until I decided that I would set the record straight to anyone that called me names. Now when people call me names in the hall, I follow them and talk directly to their faces. I tell them the entire story behind why I look the way I look, and that I'm not dumb, I'm not violent at all (In fact, I've become a pacifist from seeing first-hand the product of violence), and I just care about how I look because I'm not a brutish hillbilly that doesn't wash.

"They also began calling me a bone-headed viking, and that I would probably rape any girls that I dated"

I'm sorry, but that was the funniest thing I've read all day.

Now I just gotta find a swede at my school...

 

[Roamin11]

It gets even worse when I get home, where my parents want nothing to do with me.

Thats what we are here for.... Or at least thats what I think we are here for.....

I don't sleep well no more no more and I have those bruised look to my eyes and it seems as though everyone can smell the depression on me, nothing weird just depressing.... But ya I'm avoided it?s a whole thing that has to do with loss.

 

[Caimekaze]

I wish you'd known that a few days ago, you could have shown me! That would have been cool, I love it when people's eyes are different colours, it's very unique.

Nah, mine's nothing special. Just a pronouncedly yellow ring around my pupil. It's fairly thin, but in the right light makes my eyes look green. =D

 

[megapenguinx]

All because of Eye color? That really sucks dude. Meh, people are stupid, what are you gonna do? I would take red eyes over my boring 'ol brown ones any day.

What would you rather be:


A supposed cosplaying nerd, or a red-eyed demon child. (put some serious thought into it)

Red eye-demon child. Seriously.

 

[Inverse Skies]

Nah, mine's nothing special. Just a pronouncedly yellow ring around my pupil. It's fairly thin, but in the right light makes my eyes look green. =D

I still want to see that though. I have normal blue eyes, your's sound really cool!