How much do you care about fitting in/being popular?

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I do not care about being popular, but I do kind of care about fitting in. I keep as quiet and small of a profile as possible. In college, that makes people think you're really smart (especially if you make a comment and the professor agrees with you--double points if you say something and the professor says he's never thought of it that way before), whereas in high school it marked you as a target. (And I say really smart because that is what students say after class, not because I think that I am really smart, or an expert--but I am smart.)

I am generally well-liked by people, though.

I never pretend being something I am not. I'm not popular, so I don't know how being popular feels.

I don't like being the center of attention, for example in parties, or my birthday. I don't like birthday's parties, cuz a lot of people is watching me, hugging me, touching me, and I hate it. That's the reason I think I'm not born to be popular

I want to fit in (though not be popular) so people won't bother me and so I won't feel uncomfortable around them. Also there might be some people I'd like to be friends with.

I don't care about being popular. I don't need a whole group of friends. All I need is one. Having a husband or boytfriend be nice. Right now I'm just looking for men and into meeting bunch of them. That's the only way to get a boyfriend.

I am not totally unpopular like i was at my last schools. alot of people in my year know me as the strange but nice one... or at least that is what i have been told. i have also been told that most people in my year do not want to pick on me because i am unpredictable and they knows i have taught teakwondo.

lion mostally stays in my bag at school, and i have wonderd many time what epople would really think if they knew that i en over to the unit / had autidm.

There is a kid in my year who has asperger (i know because he did a big talk on it a while back) and i keep trying to mention it to him, but no luck yet!

^licks^

jammie & lion

how much do i care about that "fittiing in", or "being popular"?

none. at all. 0,-

i do wanna be respected, trusted, and appreciated though. i love being considered "the wise one", along with the odd one.
for people to trust and appreciate my intelectual input, thats all i want

I don't care.

I DO NOT WANT 2 BEE DA KING OF POPULAR KIDS.I just want great friends.

I try not to fit in and yet not to make somebody else unnecessarily angry...

Well, I've been the renegade, the (failed to be) nerd, the freak, the philosopher, the oddd, the artist, etc...

I am not desperate to be popular, I just want to have friends (though that is alreday difficult), but if I get popular for some reason, it doesn't bother me either.

I don't want to be popular, yet I want enough true friends to make me happy.

Only enough not to have people throw stuff at me when I walk the streets.

Caring what others think is to be controlled by them.
Worrying about others opinions of you will only slow you down.

Popularity = sucks, trust me it sucks nobody will ever leave you alone and they are too ignorant to figure out that you want to be left alone I would much rather be lost in my thoughts with a bit of peace than to be bombarded with questions and well im not good with names so when I forget, not if i forget, their names they get upset over something so small as a name, people in general are too . . . . emotional is one word for it why cant everyone just be more understanding and accepting?

Actually it's fun to be considered the odd/weird/eccentric one. I don't try too hard (except for some comments which are on purpose, to freak my friends out).
A couple days ago a friend told me that I'm abnormal, and she noticed the first time we talked, which is odd since I thought I could act pretty normal if I tried (no idea what it is about me that's abnormal). Oh well. I don't want to be "normal" all the time (hell no!) but being able to would be useful.
That same friend also thinks that I hear voices in my head nad tries to make me confess it. No idea where she got that.

I don't really care that much about being popular but I do care alot about having a crew of friends to hang out with