oh my...my roomates entire family-who are fairly clean cut small town folks who I had never met before, just came in to see our apartment randomly...and I was hanging out in my underpants at the computer working on a paper, and the house is sooo messy right now and the ferrets were running around like CRAZY- although they seemed to like them, but thought my rats were really gross and weird... ...I can practically hear them, "son, you have a nice apartment, but that girl with all the rodents in her underwear..." ...I don't really care. It was just a really funny occurance all in all. Could not have made it a stranger experience for them I think. Do things ever happen to you that really remind you what a weirdo you are?
if my parents came to my apartment and found a girl in her underwear, i'm pretty sure they would throw me a party. and to answer your question, i'm constantly reminded of my strangeness.
Yeah, I'm working on forgetting my strange qualities. When you have an irrational, yet intrinsic fear of germs, you don't need to be reminded of your oddities.
oh- that's promising- it is a specific oddity you never forget? Like I'm constantly aware that I'm a little strange- but specifics are always a good time..
I "suffer" (enjoy most minutes of) from synesthesia, I see flavors, feel sounds, I have to translate every description, it sucks. I view the world in an intensely quantifiable fashion. I really do have a 156 i.q. and when I am using words I've known since I was eight, and people tell me to "start speakin' english" it rankles me. it causes me intense physical discomfort to make eye contact. and on and on and on.
oh god. "ooooOOOoo, big words over here..." i just want to say... no, that was the smallest word i could think of that would both get my point across and not confuse the utter shit out of you. go read a fucking dictionary.
by the way, in RL i am completely out of my mind... but i make people laugh, so it all works out. but really when i am in my element i am a total spaz... not the cool, collected person i seem to be on the internets.... though i suppose i really do have a certain zen-ness about me...
Yes. People tend to walk into the homestead without knocking. We have a dog so mom and dad like to tell people to just walk in and say hello instead of ringing the doorbell and getting him all worked up. So people waltz in while I'm in my underwear, half naked, etc. My brother once brought his friend from work up the stairs to his room and introduced me to his friend while I was half dressed in my room once. We're kind of a liberal family when it comes to nudity and all that. The strangest things happen to me too, don't worry. I was waiting for my boyfriend to get off work once, standing outside his store, when a ferret came scurrying up to me on the side walk.
yeah, my social skills have always been severely lacking, but one skill i did learn fairly quickly was how to talk down to people so they understand without being insulted. i remember years ago when my roommate and best friend nearly came to blows because my roomie insisted that my friend had just made up the term "feng shui."
ugh yeah... i hang out with a far less intellectual crown than i would like at times... but i have my cosmonaut friends, too, who are pretty effin sweet.
every day i go into work im reminded....i am not like the others. and i do a little jig in celebration every day too. i dont really.
