# Are you weird? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 7, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-weird/612113 "2012-02-07T19:58:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-weird/612113/41 "2012-02-08T10:45:13Z")
I’m pretty weird, but amongst the people I know, not being an atheist is weird. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-weird/612113/42 "2012-02-08T10:56:16Z")
I dunno. Maybe weird for my location. I’m extremely right wing in most of my politics, and my wife is so far to the right of \*me \*that she makes my NRA friends nervous. 😛 And we’re atheists. In Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-weird/612113/43 "2012-02-08T10:58:49Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > It’s not completely accurate for me to describe myself as a bodybuilding mathematician, but it’s not that far off either. I think most people would describe that as weird. Not sure its really that weird, I was actually just noticing the other day that lifting seems to be a pretty common hobby amongst mathematicians. Probably because mathematician is pretty much a poster child for a sedentary job and so a lot of practitioners feel the need for exercise, and because a lot of them spend a large portion of the their careers on college campuses where they have free access to a gym. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-weird/612113/44 "2012-02-08T11:06:09Z")
In the usual things, marriage, kid, job, I am pretty normal when compared to the people around me here in Holland. But I am weird. And it is not just me saying that. What I’ve heard through other people, “weird” is about the third thing people say about me. Nice, smart, weird, in that order. Some friends, for whom being dull or boring is a thing, kindly say I am “not boring”. That worries me. I can’t put my finger on what makes me weird, and neither can other people I ask. It’s subtle. If I wasn’t as presentable on first impression as I am, I am afraid I would cross some line where weird would become a true problem. It also worries me because even though I tried, I can’t just _not_ be weird if I meet someone more then a couple times. All my life, I have gone from one more attempt to fix the weirdness (why do you think I studied psychology?) to thinking I fixed the weird, to feeling again nope, still weird. It is a problem. The solution probably is to stop trying, but the fact that I can’t is part of the problem. And no, being a psychologist myself doesn’t help either. Blind people can’t perform eye surgeries on themselves. :: deep sigh:: ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-weird/612113/45 "2012-02-08T11:48:25Z")
If you have to explain _why_ you’re weird, you’re not weird enough. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-weird/612113/46 "2012-02-08T12:29:03Z")
Let’s see now… - child free by choice, I like children but I don’t particularly like being around babies - married to a younger man, but he’s only 5 years younger - don’t have any real friends close to where I live, but I do have a network of friends elsewhere - hate speaking on the phone - somewhat introverted, but not shy/awkward, I just feel more energised spending time alone or with my husband - play online games like SW:TOR - generally geeky in other ways, like science fiction books/movies/shows - quite geeky at work - I know how to do stuff in Microsoft Office that others have no idea how to, so I am the ‘go to girl’ for that kind of stuff - not religious. I hesitate to define myself as athiest because that would imply I spend a lot of time thinking about the fact that there is no god. I don’t, I just simply don’t ever think about religion until it’s brought up (like on this board) Am I normal? No, definitely not. But I don’t actually consider myself to be weird, just different. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-weird/612113/47 "2012-02-08T13:02:14Z")
I prefer to think of myself as being demographically select. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-weird/612113/48 "2012-02-08T13:14:42Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > You are a dung beetle; by definition you are weird. It’s kind of you to say that. :o ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-weird/612113/49 "2012-02-08T14:36:27Z")
I build stuff like [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwLRKQOxFbs) in my free time. So yes, I think I’m weird. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-weird/612113/50 "2012-02-08T14:58:58Z")
> [@MostlyClueless](#): > > I build stuff like [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwLRKQOxFbs) in my free time. So yes, I think I’m weird. \ Woah!\ That is way cool, **MostlyClueless**. Did you design that or are there plans available? Man do I love those kind of things. I didn’t have money growing up but I dreamed of building radio controlled robots. But, then again, as exemplified in my previous post, I am weird so my perspective is probably a bit off. ---
**Author:** ![Malden\_Capell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malden_capell/32/5274_2.png) [@Malden\_Capell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malden_Capell)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-weird/612113/51 "2012-02-08T15:04:32Z")
I’m from Basildon in the English County of Essex and I’m weird in that I: - Did well at school - Did well at University - Am not interested in sport - Am not interested in celebrity gossip - Enjoy reading - Enjoy science fiction - Enjoy history and politics - Am not racist - Do not like to wear branded clothing Sorry, this has just become a rant against Essex 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-weird/612113/52 "2012-02-08T15:07:19Z")
Thanks, **Gagundathar**! Yup, I designed this myself. However, for many of my models I’ve created instructions so you can build them if you have the parts. All of these can be found at [build.mahjqa.com](http://build.mahjqa.com/). Some of these are [step by step instructions](http://www.flickr.com/photos/28134808@N02/sets/72157623517145445/), others are digital files that can be opened with [Lego’s own digital design program](http://ldd.lego.com/). And well, right now Lego has their own RC system (called power functions) so you can just toss a couple of motors in any creation to make it remote control. This stuff is awesome 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-weird/612113/53 "2012-02-08T15:16:04Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > What I’ve heard through other people, “weird” is about the third thing people say about me. Nice, smart, weird, in that order. I’m sure “hot” would be in there somewhere, which would bump “weird” down to number four. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-weird/612113/54 "2012-02-08T15:51:16Z")
I wouldn’t call myself weird for it, but there are some things about me which are unusual for the provincial, still heavy Catholic (but that’s waning) part of Germany I live in: - not married and no kids (never wanted either), single for 16 years and not dating - atheist - vegetarian - politically left leaning (in the German political spectrum) - posting on an American based message board 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-weird/612113/55 "2012-02-08T16:01:14Z")
I noticed this recently with my friends. - I’m not married or dating - I don’t have or want kids - Up until a year ago I was the only one who smoked - I’m a Christian - I own my own company ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-weird/612113/56 "2012-02-08T16:42:01Z")
I’m a devout and active Christian who fights for equal rights and recognition for GLBT. I hate cars and car exhaust but I’m fine if you want to smoke. I have firearms and explosives and believe both need at least basic regulation. Nope ------ nothing really odd. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-weird/612113/57 "2012-02-08T17:44:05Z")
In comparison to what? The general run of people I meet at work or in the stores? Kinda weird. The people I hang out with? Pretty normal. > [@Sunspace](#): > > And I still have my Legos. 🙂 So, how \*you \*doin’? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-weird/612113/58 "2012-02-08T18:48:08Z")
I certainly am a very odd person in many aspects. I’m a 51 year-old male and have never married. I very rarely date (three relationships in my whole life, so far). I have a rather large comic book collection. (Stopped buying in 2007, for financial reasons; would still buy them if I had more money.) I have a “superheroines-in-KO-peril” fetish; I have a “Deviant Art” webpage where I post various scenarios of my scantily-clad heroines getting knocked unconscious by supervillains. I upload a deviation almost every day. I grow my pinky fingernails long, for no real reason other than “It amuses me” (not for cocaine purposes). I have a “cartooniverse counterpart” that I made up a few years back, called the “Dastardly Disruptor” – he is obese, short, hairy, longhaired and can generate powerful blasts from his bizarrely-long pinky fingernails. He knocks my superheroines (Panther Girl, “Occulta, the Witch of the Silvery Star”, Sparrowhawk, Annie Frenzy, etc.) out cold a lot… I have a huge number of characters that I have made up through the years – my sexy heroine “Panther Girl”, for example, who would have been the first black superheroine at Marvel Comics (predating Storm by a few years), if they had taken the suggestion in my letter that I sent. In retrospect, however, I have a feeling that my letter may have been lost in the mail – who knows? I don’t drink alcohol or use illegal drugs. (Not that weird, I know!) Intellectually, I am an agnostic, but I attend services almost every Sunday morning at my local “Church of Christ” congregation (a very fundamentalist church, that I was brought up in) – I like to sing hymns a lot. I enjoy singing the soprano line in my falsetto voice! I love reading “Cthulhu Mythos” tales – I am a big H.P. Lovecraft fan! I have a Cthulhu statue and various plushes on my desk at work. [http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&sa=X&biw=1280&bih=880&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=3cZbCabai62quM:&imgrefurl=http://cgi.ebay.com/Nightmares-H-P-Lovecrafts-Cthulhu-Statue-/280639888559&docid=U6m1BjC8dkmhWM&imgurl=http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Nightmares-H-P-Lovecrafts-Cthulhu-Statue-/00/%2524](http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&sa=X&biw=1280&bih=880&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=3cZbCabai62quM:&imgrefurl=http://cgi.ebay.com/Nightmares-H-P-Lovecrafts-Cthulhu-Statue-/280639888559&docid=U6m1BjC8dkmhWM&imgurl=http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Nightmares-H-P-Lovecrafts-Cthulhu-Statue-/00/%2524)(KGrHqN,!h8E1K4Oc6MhBNcq,!KOZw~~\_35.JPG&w=300&h=225&ei=8MIyT7D1FcGutwev4sD7Bg&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=407&sig=106787937497384985671&page=4&tbnh=137&tbnw=187&start=96&ndsp=36&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:96&tx=80&ty=71 I enjoy collecting swords, axes, maces, etc. So, pretty darn odd, I guess… ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-weird/612113/59 "2012-02-08T19:16:45Z")
> [@MostlyClueless](#): > > I build stuff like [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwLRKQOxFbs) in my free time. So yes, I think I’m weird. Wow! that’s pretty neat! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-weird/612113/60 "2012-02-08T19:24:52Z")
> [@MostlyClueless](#): > > I build stuff like [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwLRKQOxFbs) in my free time. So yes, I think I’m weird. Wow. I used to fill the dining room with suspension bridges made of string and Legos, and I built hydro dams in the back yard out of Legos, but I never got _that_ ambitious. \ I’m not worthy! I’m not worthy! \ Though I now wonder what I could do with a minifabber and Mindstorms… > [@Morgyn](#): > > So, how \*you \*doin’? 😃 Quite well, thanks. And you? 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-weird/612113.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-weird/612113.md?page=4)