Post ApfsMYrOSpU0x0JKAy by lemgandi@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #ApfjIKrpeFouo4QTM8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-02T12:50:33Z
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Sometimes I think that people who allow others to see how strange they are, people who don't hide their oddness maybe be fundamentally the least weird people. This sort of person takes an inventory of the things they think, the places their imagination explores, their notions of how the world works and decides there is no great cost to letting it all hang out. They look at their heart (warts and all) and pin it to their sleeve. Is it maybe more typical to keep almost everything hidden?
(DIR) Post #ApfjyFcnWv4gi4NfFo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-02T12:58:07Z
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Consider (to take a crass example) J.D. Vance without any filter at all. Just from what he lets slip, one can tell his mind is a box of horrors. I bring him up since he is someone who curates his identity aggressively but is also very bad at it. I don't think there is any virtue *inherent* to not needing to make an effort to try to shape how others see you. Not putting in a little effort to "be normal" can sometimes be a little rude. It can seem inconsiderate.
(DIR) Post #Apfk44RG25LLkol2sy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-02T12:59:10Z
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But I do wonder if there are people where the effort they put into constructing their public persona is so great that there is little relation between who they show themselves to be and who they really are. And I assume some are very good at it-- no one knows just how wide the gap has grown to be.And if we ever got to meet them without that filter we might know what a "weird person" really means.
(DIR) Post #ApfklGiYFuOiHxRfdo by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-01-02T13:06:59Z
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@futurebird I have no idea what is typical, but my entire childhood was all about being judged negatively for being such a strange child. Then I went and worked in the tech industry which is, in its own way, every bit as conservative, narrow-minded, and hidebound as any Utah Mormon.
(DIR) Post #Apfo5mFX1v65jmLI36 by clayfoot@mastodon.social
2025-01-02T13:44:16Z
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@futurebird This is why Jim Varney (of Earnest P. Worrell fame) refused public appearances in-character. He saw what it did to Paul Reubens (of Pee-Wee Herman fame) and refused to play Earnest off stage/screen. He preferred to be known as the character actor who played Earnest, not as Earnest.
(DIR) Post #ApfouPcmuNq4KuMgbI by sewblue@sfba.social
2025-01-02T13:53:25Z
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@futurebird I think most of those people come off as slimy creeps. That it gets off deep alarm bells in those around that person. That hey, this person is not being honest somehow. You basically can't fake natural charm or charisma. Which is why being yourself works better, I'd you've got, to quote my teen, that Ohio rizz.
(DIR) Post #Apfrn09ZVkqrAqrCsa by edwardchampion@mastodon.social
2025-01-02T14:25:39Z
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@futurebird Well, there's a reason why we use the term "covert fascist" or, back in the Nixon era, "the silent majority." These people cloak their true hateful intent and only allow it into the public eye when it is deemed "acceptable." The rest of us -- that is, more benign weirdos -- have no such qualms about being open about our weirdness because it is more of an eccentric expression of humanism. Which we are often impugned for. Often by "liberal" normies.
(DIR) Post #ApfsMYrOSpU0x0JKAy by lemgandi@mastodon.social
2025-01-02T14:32:07Z
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@futurebird I Am So Weird.
(DIR) Post #Apfso1n10ssEUaMNHs by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-02T14:37:07Z
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@edwardchampion There's "I think of nothing but trains 24/7 weird" and then there is "I think some people just should not exist" weird and trying to "fit in" for these is NOT that same thing. LOL
(DIR) Post #ApftaSyBGH8QgpgC6y by edwardchampion@mastodon.social
2025-01-02T14:45:50Z
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@futurebird Big difference. 😂😂 If only we could persuade the haters that putting your energies into a geeky pastime is a better use of your time than hating on people. But they can't even be bothered to Google the subjects they don't know about. And they don't realize that the person who thinks about nothing but trains has an infinitely greater likelihood of stumbling upon an unusual idea that could actually improve humanity!
(DIR) Post #Apfu5ehNheqW2mh5Qu by 401matthall@mastodon.xyz
2025-01-02T14:51:27Z
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@futurebirdWorked for one of these for years. They'd even said more than once "You have sell yourself on the lie before you can sell it to anyone else."I think that's weird and a bit sad.
(DIR) Post #ApfxY29GPXQek6xWe8 by n_dimension@infosec.exchange
2025-01-02T15:30:13Z
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@futurebird The normies don't try to keep things hidden.Most of them are just terribly boring.Decades of brainwashing to conform made them into meat-robots whose only purpose is to support the consumerist factory farm "society".
(DIR) Post #Apfzb8NDvEkmpK5wQK by drifthood@aus.social
2025-01-02T15:53:11Z
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@futurebird u mean they are better at passing?