Questions for girls/women

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1. Did you connect better with other females your age or with males (meaning for friendship)?
2. Were you in touch with the current fashions, movies, books, and other cultural aspects or did you "do your own thing?
3. Sense of humor: does yours pretty much match that of most people or do you find what others find funny lame or stupid or just not funny?

I always got along better with guys my age and females I just don't seem to get. Even as an adult, I just don't feel like I belong in a group of grown women.
I always wore jeans and sneakers. Had no clue nor did I care about current fashions. I never went to have my nails done either. My nails are always kept very short and clean. I think long fingernails are gross and unsanitary.
I often think that the things most people crack up about are immature, stupid and just only mildly funny, like 3rd grader humor. Maybe worth only a smile. Meanwhile, what cracks me up is found to be immature by most other people.

As a teenager the boys were easier to hang out with,the girls were so catty and had their own little cliques.The guys listened to the same sort of music I did and liked the same sort of T,V. Shows.I tried to hang with some of the nicer girls but always felt out of place even when they were being nice.I was really into D&D also and for some reason most players were guys.My characters were always male too.I don't have any fashion sense and when I do try to fix myself up it takes forever.I'm a t-shirt and comfy clothes person.I have trouble leaving the house with really wrinkly clothes on since I hate ironing.I never could see the point of a herd of women heading to the mall,I hate shopping and beauty salons.My Aunt used to drag me to the salon with her when I was a child and the smells were horrid! Of course they had to paint my nails and give my hair a body wave.It might be different for people who have sisters they are really close to but I don't like most of the things that most women do so it's harder to have friends if you have nothing in common.I have a strange sense of humor and find most comedies stupid and juvenile,maybe they are funny if you are twelve.I like dark comedies and some of the British comedies( Mr. Bean rules!!)( not the American movie version.)

I don't get along with any particular gender, just individuals. But I think I would prefer a woman as a friend.

I am not into stereotypical feminine things, but I'm not masculine either. I'm androgynous.

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as a teenager, most of my friends were boys. now it is about a 50/50 split


i always liked high fashion and quirky stuff, but popular things didn't interest me. my ex-husband used to joke that people just had to call something popular and i would avoid it (books, movies, etc)


mmmmm hard to say. the only style of show i don't find funny at all is frathouse-style comedy, and Family Guy for some reason (though i love the Simpsons and Southpark)

I feel much more comfortable around males than females. I don't think I ever had a close female friend in my life - I had a few friends, but I never really felt as though I could be myself around them.
I have very little interest in what's "current" in any of those categories. I try to be aware enough of current fashion not to wear something completely out of date, but in general, I have the music/books/clothes I like and they may very well date from before my grandparents were born.
I like some of the humor other people do, I suppose. I enjoy Monty Python, and they're pretty popular, right? When I make a joke, though, half the time people don't even realize it's a joke at all, or just find it geeky and weird, I guess, and look at me as though I have five heads.

1. I connect better with the girls because I feel more comfortable with them, this could be because I'm a girl too. I want to be around guys but I'm more shy around them. The only thing I don't like about girls is that they talk too much about getting their nails done, they would even ask me why I don't wear make up, they're too girly, but there are some girls who aren't like that.

2. I did my own thing and I never took interest in the new fashion nor their movies. A lot of girls are into Twilight, Vampire Diaries, and Hunger Games, but I'm not into those things. I'm more into superheroes, the old "real" vampires, scary movies, history, art, books about ghosts and mysteries. I dress casual and not too "stylish" or "girly" like the typical girl. I'm more into stuff that boys like.

3. My sense of humor sometimes matches those of other people, but I find immature things or weird jokes funnier than others. I laugh at things that other people find weird or rude.

Oops, sorry for posting this in the wrong place. Thanks for fixing that, hyperlexian!
Thanks for all your replies. I can relate to a lot of it. The few female friends I've had were either "nerdy" and "different" like I am and so were not judgemental of me or they were the leaders and I was the follower. I was always happy to go along with whatever they wanted to do until my mother noted this and asked me why I never make the plans. I had no answer for her and didn't want to change. Then after a while I got resentful of these "bossy" friends and one by one, I stopped talking to them.
There was one girl I was friends with in 1st grade and she was very bright, quiet and what other kids called nerdy. She and I used to pretend we were horses and gallop around outside at recess. I had no clue what all the other girls were doing and I didn't care since a lot of them just picked on me all the time.
My sense of humor is so immature and odd that I'm embarrassed to say what I like to do once in a while for fun. It is so 2nd grade humor!

1. Guys, usually. It sucks that a lot of people have this idea that men and women can't be "just friends" with each other, because I tend to like guys as people even if I don't want to sleep with them.
2. I've always done my own thing.
3. There isn't a total match between my sense of humour and that of others, but there is an intersection. Many people who I know describe me as funny or witty.

1. I think I connect with males and females equally. In a lot of ways I'm a stereotypical guy so can identify with guys but I am actually a girl so "girl talk" is occasionally relevant
2. I sometimes will hear about movies and books that are very popular and will watch or read them if they seem interesting but I dont seek out this information for the sake of staying up to date
3. I tend to laugh at the wrong parts of other peoples jokes (the parts that weren't intended to be funny). My sense of humor sometimes falls in line with others. Sometimes people laugh at my jokes. A good amount of the time I am the only one laughing. For example.. I found a physics problem hillarious in my textbook and can't let this one go.. It described tarzan and jane swinging on an ideal vine.. which I found hillarious... I also had someone mention a deer swimming and pictured it swimming underwater and cried from laughing so hard.. I also find the idea of people dancing or break dancing or doing gymnastics from the perspective of someone who was observing humans for the first time hillarious.. no one else I've described this to seems to get why I find it so funny

I can see why you find dancing humans funny. Especially if you take away the music! Did you ever picture what it would look like if you saw a human driving down the road in a car...but take away the car that is around him/her?

I haven't pictured this before but I love it

I can get along with most guys as long as they don't act like a bunch of as*holes, and I tend to get along with younger girls better than girls my age.

I pretty much do my own thing. If someone has a problem with it, they can go find someone who does care about conforming to society.

As for humor, I'm a bit cynical and pessimistic, but I tend to be goofy sometimes.

I never really connected with males or females. I had one female that took me in up until she moved away after middle school. after that i was pretty much completely friendless. i had a couple guys that were friends, and a couple girls that were friends in high school.


i never cared for the current fashions, movies, books. i usually just do my own thing. i dress to be comfortable. i read what i want. i watch that i want and have my own belief system. i am certainly not the type to follow the crowd.


some things i find funny that most other people would and other times i have a different sense of humor from everyone else. I think mainly my sense of humor that is like most people find funny was learned having a NT mother.

1. Did you connect better with other females your age or with males (meaning for friendship)? Males

2. Were you in touch with the current fashions, movies, books, and other cultural aspects or did you "do your own thing? Did my own thing

3. Sense of humor: does yours pretty much match that of most people or do you find what others find funny lame or stupid or just not funny? My sense of humour doesn't match many NT's to be honest. They think I'm being very rude xD And likewise to them, what they find funny I think isn't funny sometimes.

1. Males. Definitely males, since we had similar interests (video games and playing in the dirt/etc.)
2. No, I definitely did my own 'thing'; I wouldn't consider myself the typical girl, nor do I now.
3. No. My sense of humor is different; it's quirky and I like ODD stuff.

1. Males, which is wonderful, because I'm also straight as a board
2. Like everyone else, did/do my own thing. I mean that quite literally. I do not wear any makeup or bother shaving my legs.
3. I don't know. Probably like everyone else. I find Monty Python-type stuff, The Office, Adventure Time, and Regular Show extremely funny, as was Mean Girls and some moments of Airplane! (sorry...just spouting off random things.) I do NOT, however, find Saturday Night Live funny because they make their skits last excessively long and wring any iota of humor out of them to the point of....UGH! JUST STOP ALREADY!