lifewithtreesWere you referred to as “the weird kid” growing up / Do you consider yourself to be “weird” as an adult?
| Not weird kid / not weird adult | |
| Weird kid / not weird adult | |
| Not weird kid / weird adult | |
| Weird kid / weird adult |
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🌸 Vårgubben@lifewithtrees Therelation between the two questions confuse me. One is about public perception, the other as self insight.
I see not reason to consider myself any weirder today as I'd consider myself in my youth, but I can imagine a whole bunch of #neuroblands disagreeing with both assessments.
@jordgubben i am curious if those perceived as “weird” as a kid see themselves as “weird” as an adult. Even in today’s classrooms kids use weird as a pejorative (something which never really resonated with me as a weird kid by others and weird as an adult of my own admission.
Also I’ve not heard neurobland. Can you share more on that?
@lifewithtrees Oh.
#neurobland is the opposite of #neurospicy.
So like #neurodivergent vs. #neurotypical, but without the connotation that the later would be more common (or even "healthier").
If you have not hear about it before it's because I came upp with it ca 10 minutes ago.
@jordgubben gotcha! That makes sense :) thanks for sharing it!
☢️ Waschbär ☢️I like the analogy that some types are simply more stimulating. However I feel that bland has a negative connotation so something else might be better suited
But again I absolutely love the approach cause especially the stimulation overdrive is what some days literally feel like.
Filip
bazkie 👩🏼💻 bitplanes 🎵@lifewithtrees oh yeah, I was always called weird. and I suppose I was.
now, I bet I'm still as weird in those people's eyes.. but I consider them shit people tbh so who cares lol
@bazkie I get this but not the shit people part.
I always saw it as weird is normal and it’s therefore normal to be weird.
My whole family would identify as “weird”. I do wonder if weird is neurodivergent!
@lifewithtrees ah right, well, for me it was used as a slur. "that kid is weird - don't interact with him". I understand there's also a positive version of weird :)
@bazkie it was used that way against me too. I’d shrug and say “thanks!”
It’s something my parents taught me to be proud of cuz they are weird too 🥰
@lifewithtrees good for you! 
@bazkie yes I’m lucky that we are all weird enough to flaunt it lol!
And also too weird to pretend otherwise ha!
Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC@lifewithtrees I have always been weird, I will always be weird. I like being weird. All my friends are weird.
@LordCaramac big fan of weird too. It’s easier to be myself :)
GreyCat, Red Mage@lifewithtrees yeeeah this is why fedi is home
Speed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸@lifewithtrees I even got an award for it. "Ridder av det frie elektron" (Knight of the free electron).
Thomas@lifewithtrees Embrase the weird!
JamesWNeal@lifewithtrees I don't know what they called me. I just know they avoided me like the plague - and throughout my adult life - same.
int%rmitt]nt sig^al. ...~!...)@lifewithtrees
in my childhood weird was seldom used I was just considers odd.
in my childhood weird was seldom used I was just considers odd.
gemelen@lifewithtrees
It's the fediverse, the results check out
It's the fediverse, the results check out
WhichOne'sPink 🇫🇮@NickSchwanck yep that’s my take too as an AuDHDer.
Jim Spath@lifewithtrees I like to consider us weirdos as outliers. Or as Yogi Bear (not Berra) said, smarter than the average bear.
opulentpavingIt was all in my head. No one cared then and no one cares now. And I sure don't care. I wish I.would have realized that at a much younger age.
VoidZeroOne 
@lifewithtrees well the exact terms used were frightening and unsetteling but that counts as weird I'd say.
Jeff Grigg