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Published: 2010-01-16 03:15:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 1426; Favourites: 35; Downloads: 11
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(Note: Yes, I *DO* know about the little white edge on the top of the stamp--no matter what format I save in or anything else, I can't seem to get rid of it. If anyone knows why, I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know what I can do to prevent it in the future.)---
Another stamp I can guarantee you no one's made before, because it seems that just about everyone's WAY too caught up in trying to be 'not normal' on purpose.
FYI guys: Since just about every one of you I've seen professes to be 'a nerd', 'a geek', 'a fangirl', 'not normal', 'a freak', 'haha liek insane', 'so weird', 'a weirdo', and that 'normal people scare you', guess what?
By doing/proclaiming those things in mass numbers, you're NORMAL for here, because you're supposedly 'scared of normal' just like everyone ELSE.
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And P.S. What's WRONG with being a regular person?
Last I checked, it's never killed anyone.
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Why would anyone be afraid of Normal it's a nice town in Illinois
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Some people can't help but be not "normal". And some people want to be unique.
And what you said about mass number make you normal. Wrong!" normal" (or and lest what it seems like to me) is whatever society says everyone should be like. And some people don't want this society telling them what they should be like.
And be honest with yourself the idea of everyone exactly the same with no differences whatsoever has to sound scary at least when you stop and think about it for a while and philosophical scale.
And for me I have Aspergers Syndrome (which by the way is different for everyone who has it) ultimately means my mind is wired differently from "normal". I can't help but be different (in most likely because of my Aspergers) but I also want to be different. But does that have to be bad.
And in the real world people still put a lot of hype over being "normal"
You're not afraid to be "normal" alright with you. You can be "normal" if you want.
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I know this is old, but, let me give you some advice someone told me back when I was going through my 'LOL OMFG I'M SO INSANE SO RANDOM POTATOEZ!!' phase; By not conforming to one group, you are automatically conforming to another, there is no such thing as uniqueness or being different.
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I used to be one of those people. Now my life stinks because of the bad reputation I got. I was too obsessed with being different I stopped being myself.
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This is a true stamp. I mean, honestly, everyone here on DA has at least art in common, so in that sense we are normal. But if you bring out the common, mainstream definition, an artist is not normal. I say this because an artist will not see the world as it truly is, or they are not an artist. That means we think in a different way than what most do(see, not normal!). So to me, normal is a relative term, an so this is a true stamp.
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I agree. I actually try to dress like everyone else, and try not be stand out in the crowd. I LIKE not having all this attention. It's silly and won't help you out much. See..I'm on of the quiet, normal people..
they'd never suspect me..
kufufufu...
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I just kind of do what I want, I guess.
For me, it's sort of more this thing of not BRAGGING that'omg liek haha im sooo weird', and trying to be 'liek weird' on purpose, as if that's the new cool or something.
Because being a freak for REAL is not cool or fun. It means bullying, social isolation, and sometimes a *lot* worse.
I guess what it is isn't even hate for people that think weird IS the new cool; it's more that I just don't get why anyone'd want to be a freak, if they were for real, when they didn't want to.
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I understand that. My step sister is actually one of the BAD weird ones.
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I understand what you're saying completely. I dont have a mental disease or whetever, but my thought process is just...strange. Other than that, I guess I'm normal. *shrug* But I've been called a nerd before.
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Yeah, I feel maybe a tiny bit the same way, although the 'thinking of or viewing things in a slightly different way' is probably something else for me than it is for you.
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Well, from what I see... People tend to be wanting to be weird because they think that being normal is boring XD
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I'm going to try and relate this idea to my own experience at University. Depending on whether I'm in a Japanese classroom, a business classroom, or a Film Studies classroom the people will dress differently and talk about different things. If you're in a core studies classroom, talking about the latest Penny Arcade strip suddenly becomes an anomaly and the people around you might not know what you're saying, opposed to expected like it'd be in the Japanese room where just about everyone will join in. There was this really surreal experience last year when Watchmen was big, where in almost all my classes everyone liked it, but in the film class one kid mentioned he bought the DVD and he was nearly laughed out the room for being suckered into a major release. In a room that's a cross section of all majors, like a large lecture hall core class, saying you're into Watchmen was completely acceptable, in the minor population of the film class he was highly irregular. I'm not saying that the people you're talking about are all super special snowflakes with no peers, but they're often not lying about feeling alienated, or somehow different, than their immediately environment. They may flock together online or at conventions, but their ideas have to travel thousands of miles to meet up with a large group that makes them seem normal. And if they're not the fannish type, teenagers do genuinely feel isolated from everyone. It's just chemistry.
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I SO agree. Teenagers especially try to be different from everyone else and say they're "not normal". But in the end they're just like everyone else. I just say I'm myself, a simple girl with simple needs and tastes.
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And P.S. My last comment here was meant to be elsewhere.
(It was on a similar topic, though, and I got the two comments refused and gave them each other's responses.)
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Sorry for being late. And yes, I agree. People are very ignorant with opinions -_-
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It's not ignorant, I don't think, in a lot of cases, so much as just wanting to be rude and/or start something, so they say cruddy stuff just to get a reaction.
That's my personal experience and the experience of most people I've talked to, anyway.
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The thing is, though, that lately, it seems that the sterotypical thing of saying 'teenagers do this and this and this' doesn't really totally cover it--the worst people I've seen and dealt with are actually *adults*, including older ones.
Especially other girls/women--they seem to be the most rampant bullies and such these days.
I mean, not to get in a tangent, but it was back in the last half of 2009 that I was hassled/bullied at random in public (in front of family, too) by a woman that was my *mom's* age, who started trashing me and trying to get an excuse to hit me. We had to *leave* a store to get away from this freak, who decided to use my not recognising some Hannah Montana song (blech. x_x ) as an excuse to seriously give me trouble.
And on here and other places online, I've been hassled and seen other people hassled (sometimes mass-hassled) by *grown women* (and I don't mean ones who are just barelybarely 18, is the sad part) who start trying to defame and/or threaten you for the SAME kind of stuff the so-called 'stupid little kids' get exclusively blamed for doing--things like not liking the right book/tv show/aniaml/color/etc.
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For the white edge thing: did you just try copy/pasting?
for your comments: [link]
for me: Being normal does kill you doesn't it? ^_^
And I think I'm the opposite of what you say... I spend all my time trying to be normal which is probably what makes me weird...
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I guess it depends on the person--but what I mean here is, people who TRY to be messed-up, 'weird', 'a freak', etc. on purpose like it's some kind of a fad.
And by making 'weird' a fad, it's suddenly not 'weird' anymore, anyway.
Another thing about it, too, is how--when people hijack various things to use as fads, especially online--it hurts the few GENUINE people who *AREN'T* just trying to get noticed or jump on the bandwagon.
Like people who have decided to pretend to be mentally-ill because it's 'a fad'. That REALLY hurts the few people out there that *do* have problems they can't help, because they get bullied by all the 'antis' for 'trying to get attention' when they *aren't*.
And same goes for just about any other rare/minority/uncommon condition or belief that people just try to do to be cool: it hurts the few people who it GENUINELY applies to because *they* get slammed with the 'You are not ________ NOW STFU' campaigns some people start (which, really, I disagree with all together usually, especially about personal things like someone's beliefs, but that's off topic).
And the worst to me is that, sometimes, really, I've seen some of these things get so bad like this people started actually denying that ANY of the thing in question could be genuine, just because TOO MANY phony people had fad'd it.
Really sad, to me.
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For what I did with the stamp template, when I got it, it was in some weird mode (indexed or some such) where no matter what I did, it was showing up on the screen as all grey (I couldn't tell what my re-coloring and stuff looked like that way, so), so I changed it.
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All artists are slightly insane to some degree. Myself, some years ago I loathed the idea of normal and mainstream. Now I realise it's not such a bad idea at all (I even wrote a story about that, how a young wild person gets a chance to meet with his older calmer self).
And that white edge doesn't look all too bad.
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I don't buy that, and even if it's true, that's not what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about people who *purposely* try to be a freak or weirdo on purpose--not people who really are slightly different for *real*.
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Most people are; it's like there's a fad right now of trying to be a freak, though.
Really...it's kind of silly. >_>;
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