Weird is just a side effect of awesome , I'd rather be weird than normal any day.
My mother once asked me as a child, "why can't you just be normal?" I looked at her sadly and my only answer I could offer her was, "I don't know how to be, I only know how to be me." She cried and held me and apologized for saying it. I kept that memory tucked away all this time, it's bittersweet to me, the pain of knowing I'd never fit in but the realization for us both that, I didn't need to.
Had a similar experience. It was actually OK, though, because when I was a kid I did not like the "normal" ones; they were tiresome and boring. I have more compassion for the normies, now, but they can still be tiresome and boring.
I didn't hang out with the popular kids much, there were a few that were good apples though. There was even one year in elementary school I only hung out with the special needs kids. I didn't see skin, I saw spirits, have always been drawn to people with hidden light others seemed to overlook. It did not make me popular, it got me teased and bullied alot! It sucked but I'm still here fighting the good fight so I must have done something right choosing that path. 🤍
