# When your friends think you are nuts! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 17, 2016, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-your-friends-think-you-are-nuts/766204 "2016-09-17T22:03:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-your-friends-think-you-are-nuts/766204/1 "2016-09-17T22:03:07Z")
Judging by many of the posts I see on here I would hazard to guess that I am not the only one whose friends think I am a bit off. We are always laying ideas on one another either for feedback or just to get a reaction whatever. My ideas always tend to be a bit unique in that there is nothing you can really use for a comparison. The general logic is that if there is nothing to compare it to then it doesn’t work, subject closed. ``` I have a long history of unique approaches with good results so I tend to respect my own ideas. Most of my friends are my friends who I met only because of my unique approaches to things. It seems very awkward for me to qualify myself to friends in an attempt to get them to take my ideas more seriously, I am not even sure how I would go about doing it. At the same time it gets very frustrating spending so much time in my own little world all alone. I spend considerable amounts of time on line looking for like minded people. even if it just means they have a similar philosophy on approaching problems. Can anyone relate to this/ ``` ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-your-friends-think-you-are-nuts/766204/2 "2016-09-17T22:08:13Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > Judging by many of the posts I see on here I would hazard to guess that I am not the only one whose friends think I am a bit off. I just tell them I’m not crazy; my mother had me tested, which actually happens to be true. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-your-friends-think-you-are-nuts/766204/3 "2016-09-17T22:32:31Z")
I tell them that I am nuts. It’s pretty obvious, no point in denying it. Works for me better than most people’s sanity. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-your-friends-think-you-are-nuts/766204/4 "2016-09-18T00:56:59Z")
I don’t have any friends. Strangers think I’m nuts. At least, they’re not biased. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-your-friends-think-you-are-nuts/766204/5 "2016-09-18T00:58:15Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > I don’t have any friends. Strangers think I’m nuts. At least, they’re not biased. I bet you would if you invited them over for dinner. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2016, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-your-friends-think-you-are-nuts/766204/6 "2016-09-18T01:27:17Z")
My friends don’t think I’m nuts. …they \*know \*I’m nuts. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-your-friends-think-you-are-nuts/766204/7 "2016-09-18T01:46:29Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > . . . I tend to respect my own ideas. . . It’s good to show solidarity. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2016, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-your-friends-think-you-are-nuts/766204/8 "2016-09-18T05:17:16Z")
Once I mentioned to a friend that I have a “what to do if I die” letter written up to make things easier for my survivors. “Just when I think I know how weird you are, you say something like that.” 😕 ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2016, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-your-friends-think-you-are-nuts/766204/9 "2016-09-18T05:26:01Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Once I mentioned to a friend that I have a “what to do if I die” letter written up to make things easier for my survivors. “Just when I think I know how weird you are, you say something like that.” 😕 I have one of those notes. I assumed most people did. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2016, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-your-friends-think-you-are-nuts/766204/10 "2016-09-18T15:12:11Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > I bet you would if you invited them over for dinner. Nobody would ever eat at my house. See my replies to the thread about the guy who left his milk in his trunk. ---
**Author:** ![Me\_Billy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Me\_Billy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Me_Billy)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2016, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-your-friends-think-you-are-nuts/766204/11 "2016-09-18T15:50:28Z")
It could be intelligence you have and not “nuts”! Being as you are inquiring about your being nuts leads me to think you are a mentally healthy person.