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and most of the people around you don't really know how to deal with you, the weirdo https://t.co/YYfwVNLg0y
some may even find you outright disgusting, or be angry and hateful towards you for being a weirdo https://t.co/tcbQ8LWpKd
the important thing to know, however is that you are not the only weirdo there are others they might not all be weird in the exact same way, but they exist! you should go find them https://t.co/21TpBF0IM0
and if you find the others, something interesting can happen. you get to develop relationships with each other... https://t.co/FsqHrQAqMF
and if you're public about it, you get to find more of the others still https://t.co/42Imj2zYab
then, if you're deliberate and persistent about it, you can build a whole *community* of kindred weirdos https://t.co/EBueNwv76K
people start building relationships with each other and it becomes this intricate meshwork, this support system, the opposite of the isolation that you suffered in https://t.co/5rKGdxys0O
and the funny thing then is... when weirdos find each other, and do things that other weirdos find cool, next thing you know... now other people think it's cool, too by helping yourself, and by helping your friends, you rewrite reality. https://t.co/Za8jDQ3ohL
it's more complicated than this, obviously. there's politics. close friends can hurt you more intimately than haters. lots of pain and suffering awaits. there are 100s of pages of nuance to explore here, I just wanted to fool around with emojis for a bit. find the others. https://t.co/FWTZdmwZsO
I think I've made pretty decent progress finding the others so far I'd like to keep doing this, get better at this, and help others do it too. let's envelope the globe with a kind, nourishing mesh of nerdy friends if you'd like to support my expedition: https://t.co/60lp66HEOw
or if you just wanna read more mini-stories like this: https://t.co/3lLFJWHeom
Story: You suck at something It bothers you, so you work hard at it & many years, through lots of pain and failure You are now good at the thing & it comes easy to you You look around and you see that most people suck at this Why don’t they just get good?? Being good rules!
another: https://t.co/k5mRp0OfIC
"oh, yeah. the reason nobody's looking out for you is because they don't believe you could possibly exist, statistically speaking. this isn't your fault. because of the lemon market problem. you're like a functional sports car in a scrapyard. you're a rounding error to them..."
@visakanv To riff: don't just find others - take risky actions to help them. Usually weirdos are trying to accomplish something that doesn't have standard channels. We can shout each other's praise all day, but the real test is action.
@visakanv I can imagine self-identifying as "weirdo" hurting some ppl. It might lead them to put less effort in socializing w/ ppl around them, because there's no point, because they're normie NPCs anyway. Need to find other weirdos instead—leading to a monoculture of disagreeable asocials
@mechanicalmonk1 https://t.co/6lZspaIdAs
it's more complicated than this, obviously. there's politics. close friends can hurt you more intimately than haters. lots of pain and suffering awaits. there are 100s of pages of nuance to explore here, I just wanted to fool around with emojis for a bit. find the others. https://t.co/FWTZdmwZsO
@mechanicalmonk1 https://t.co/r2dB6TlNLs
@mechanicalmonk1 https://t.co/IDqLDJRA0z
Which brings me to the NPC meme. Using the NPC meme is typically an attempt to reduce some other person into a predictable shell script. And, considering my own life experience as someone who didn't fit in, and contrasting that with the people who use the NPC meme...