It seems to me they do. That really odd Aunt Gertrude or Uncle Clarence who says or does some of the craziest things. Maybe they have a true mental disability or they might be doing it do just be odd but it seems most families have such a person.
Personally, while they may be annoying I think they make family get-togethers more interesting.
Well, my family never talks about that sort of thing when I’m around. I’ve never been able to figure out why.
I have a number of relatives who have been diagnosed as Bi-polar.
I have a nephew who is in a cult like thingie somewhere in Pennsylvania.
But when you say it makes get togethers more interesting, do you mean with them at the party or just talking about them at the party?
Cause that might make a difference in my answer.
I think they do. No matter the family, there seems to be always someone who has a different mindset.
To the hard drinking, rowdy family, the member who doesn’t like to party and gets good grades might seem odd. To the staid, reserved family, the member who stays out all Saturday night partying might seem odd.
So I think the member who deviates from the family norm will be the weird relative.
[Zazu]There’s one in every family, Sire.
Two in mine, actually.[/Zazu]
Yo!
Just one?
Sometimes, that one weird relative finds somebody else’s one weird relative to breed with.
This is the only thing my four grandparents had in common.
We don’t have “one” weird relative - in my case, it’s the entire branch of my mother’s family.
This would have made a great Poll:
Is your family’s weird relative A) You or B) Somebody else?
I know what you mean. I’m the only person in my family who isn’t weird.
At least one! (And when you scratch the surface, the “normal” ones are always a lot weirder than one expects.)
My family always said “Shake any family tree, and you’re bound to have a few nuts fall out.” 
Uncle Floyd.
I suppose, if you think your family has no weird relatives, it is likely that YOU are the weird relative…
All the interesting and peculiar relatives in my family are dead.
One left all her worldly possessions to her pet goat.
One murdered his wife
One was murdered in prison (see above)
One murdered a man in a barroom brawl
One conspired with her BIL to murder her husband
Fortunately these are evenly distributed on both sides of my family.
Yep. And, in my family, that would be me.
Aunt Wynelle. Might have started the minute they named her.
C) All of the above
How timely. I just attended a family reunion.
Sis and I were talking about that after the gathering. I guess we may have been the weird relations at one point, (bookish, not into NASCAR, big hair and getting married at 18) but we fit in well with many of the next generation.
There was the aunt who thought Reagan had been killed and replaced by a stuntman, the uncle who built a wooden car and also revealed state secrets, a great aunt who woke up the family in the wee hours of dawn by singing, and a couple hyper-religious types. And there’s me.