Is anyone else a Weird Magnet?

My husband and i seem to be 'weird magnets". I'm an INFP and he's an ENFP and we are both intellectually gifted.
My 2 closest female friends are weird. One is an Aspie (who i diagnosed) and other, a professor, is just plain weird. My DH's friend at work is probably an Aspie too.
My theory is that we are really very accepting people and find others' eccentricity interesting. I have been told that i am a loser for having weird friends.

I think my boundaries are a little better than they used to be. But i haven't really made many new friends--I'm a little weird myself!!!!

Comments?

Boo Radley

I think that I attract creeps...and the weird ones, I guess. I don't make friends with people who are "normal" I guess. They're much too boring for my liking!

I think almost everyone has some form of weirdness, and heck, how boring would it be if we didn't? LOL!!

...weird, eccentric, interesting, out of the ordinary, anomalous, I am, I seek, I accept, I love. I find creative people so much more alive and condensed..... ie, I get so much more bang for my buck in these relationships.

A 5 second exchange with a wierdo in the line with me at the supermarket can be way more fulfilling than dinner with a dud. I seek memorable moments, they are so much more fun to remember, which is what I do a lot of, here in bed at command central....... .

i find weirdos interesting. some are too weird for me. some find me too weird.

i think creativity has something to do with weirdness.

I will take the weirdo's any day ... funny we use to have so many friends and each a bit different okay some quite a bit different than one another, and if all in same room became really something... they all seemed to dislike one another... go figure... these were people we considered to good friends to us and all these goood friend hated one another.. I never could figure that one out..

A world without wierdo's would be a world without people! Boring. We'd never be visited by aliens for a start.
But really, most of the people I've met who are "weird" that I've gotten to know have turned out to be special in other ways. Super intelligent, thoughtful, generous.
I'm a bit weird myself ta very much. Weird is fun.

I'm not weird. I'm eccentric.

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I think almost everyone has some form of weirdness, and heck, how boring would it be if we didn't? LOL!!

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YES, I agree\\\....... we are all weird to some point or another...... Heck! - WEIRD is often my middle name - lol.


LoVe,
Rhapsody -

You bet. I have three friends. One is normal. The other one has sex addiction issues and brain damage. The other has a history of schizophrenia and must take his medication or lose his mind. But, I haven't trouble with normal people because my odd negative thinking tends to get a "you shouldn't think that way" response from normal people. It is only people with mental issues that can understand that I can't turn into a positive thinker over night. Perhaps, your willingness to accept others encourages the "weirdos" to become your friends. I also live in downtown and ride the bus which increases my exposure to people on social security disability and they are more likely as I said to accept a weirdo like me.

Walks,
Do you think this happens between them, cause they are rivals in weirdness? Perhaps feeling one is going to get the "whole audience's" attention before the other.
This has been a really cool topic, and good to see we can make some light hearted humour of it.
Being weird and being comfortable with that, makes life more fun at times, eh? LOL!!
BTW if you do get stuck to the refrigerator door, kick off with your right foot, and then put your left foot out, do the hokey pokey . . .

the reason why it seems that you attract wierd people is because everyone is wierd... the one's that appear to be "normal", only hide it better than others.

There is no such thing as "normal".

Normal is what YOU decide it is.

If I meet someone that appears to be well-balanced and "normal", I think that is very strange... and that person makes me feel a bit tense.

As I get to know them better, and their wierdness shows up... I can relax because then I know what I am really dealing with.

I get a big kick out of reading message boards on other websites, where some folks comment and criticize another person who admits that they have a 'condition' of some type... little do they know... there's something about THEM that is most likely worse.

Hope that helps you put this is in a better perspective.

I love interesting people. I notice I have a better rapport with people who mesh best with my personality, or send out the same kind of 'fun' [imo] vibes i get a kick out of. Just my random 2 cents, - and first post.

Am I a weird magnet. . . .

I have a Vacancy! sign blinking over my head for the weirdos.

Im a grand magnate, does that count?

Just because this reply is next to yours that doesn't mean I'm weird, I don't care how grand a Magnate you are.
The people I'd consider to be weird are those people who just can't see the fine line between cheeky and offensive. Theres this one guy I know who smiles at me like I'm his best mate, then says something about me thats totally offensive. His way of being friendly perhaps, but to me he is the Prime Minister of Weirdness, leader of the Odd Ball people. Don't even get me started on some of the people I only know in passing.

Perhaps you feel most comfortable with people who are generally uncomfortable in social settings. I don't think that makes THEM weird or YOU weird.

Kind of a side topic... In fact, I'm not sure I like the label of 'weird'. Some take it as a compliment, others take it as an insult. I'd prefer to just be me and others just be them, without labels. Although I do like to think of myself as 'approachable'. I have a lot of really shy friends who have a hard time making friends but felt comfortable with me, even though I'm not shy at all. But I also have many friends who are socially very confident. I do my best not to show any social discrimination, which hopefully makes all people feel comfortable in approaching me for friendship. And for the really snobby people who would think I'm a 'loser' based on my friendship with, um, 'weirdos'... I don't give a flying hoot what they think anyway.

Maybe you're the same way?

Maybe finding someone "weird" says more about us than them. Could we be attracting people similar to ourselves, recognising in them aspects of our personality we don't like, then labelling them "weird"?

LMo, I like your thinking about not labelling. I spent many years labeling myself weird, ugly and a freak. My sort of solution was to see the "weirdness" in everyone else. If we're all weirdos the label weirdo loses it's power because no one is set apart. Labels are too simplistic to really describe a human being. I think you're pretty enlightened LMo. Do you have a problem with being labelled enlightened?

yeah...but labeling someone "cheeky" is ok isn't it???