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I love eccentrics. They are like a breath of fresh air.

I don't really think of myself as eccentric but I'm extremely sarcastic (think Chandler Bing) and argumentative, most people just want me to shut up, I think. And although I don't steer conversations into this direction, I like to talk about mental conditions like personality disorders, the schizophrenia spectrum and autism a lot. I also like to talk about computer games and the industry a lot too which is always certainly the case with my best friend. This sounds almost masturbatory, I'll stop now.
 
I do not consider my self as eccentric, but I think that most who know me, would consider me to be eccentric, because I hate conforming to what is the norm. A silly illustration: If all females wore their hair down, I would wear mine up and visa verse.

Despite shyness and always wanting peace, I know that I am not seen as a peaceful person, because if I think something is wrong, I cannot just nod along and pretend and thus, do come across as argumentative. But the reality is that it is because the person I am speaking with demands that their way is right and yet, I am the one who is condemned for demanding the samee thing and thus, I would be stamped as eccentric, when actually I am not one bit eccentric. I am a very traditional woman, but not stupid tradition, if I see that it is pointless now.

I am 46 and have not lost the inner child; it does not take that much to get me smiling and laughing!
 
Southern Discomfort said:
I don't really think of myself as eccentric but I'm extremely sarcastic (think Chandler Bing) and argumentative, most people just want me to shut up, I think. And although I don't steer conversations into this direction, I like to talk about mental conditions like personality disorders, the schizophrenia spectrum and autism a lot. I also like to talk about computer games and the industry a lot too which is always certainly the case with my best friend. This sounds almost masturbatory, I'll stop now.
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Sure, but I think you are only eccentric if you don't know it - it has to be pointed out by others, and then you don't compute. So, it has been pointed out that I am very different as a professor, and have eccentric teaching methods, but I don't agree. I think I am normal and my methods are normal, everyone else is abnormal, in fact staid. I like living in a psychedelic world and that must play out into my life and surrounds. But, as already pointed out, if you are Aspie/autistic or schizophrenic then you classify as eccentric - that would be society's polite way of putting it.
 
I've been called eccentric. I myself can tell I'm different than the average person. A lot of people are surprised around me because they expect people to act a certain way and I don't fit, and I think it's up to the people whether they like it or not. Some like me for who I am and like it (almost as if it is an incentive to be around me) and others simply don't get it and would like to keep their distance.
 
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