Would any of you say that you're Eccentric?

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Whats the actual definition of eccentric? I've always thought of myself as eccentric but no one has ever called me that.

Maybe they just dont say it to the face.

I definately fit that definition.

I guess I just have a hard time realising that I should care what others think about me, so most of the time I just don't and that's enough to get labeled eccentric ;p

I know I'm eccentric. No living in denial on my end! No one I talk to ever seems to be interested in any of the things I am and just overall I end up feeling weird.

yeah, pretty much. read some of my posts and you'll see my eccentricity shine.

my interests are also quite odd for people my age. i could go on and on but i truly don't feel like it. hmm...*sniffs shoe* interesting.

I'm super eccentric. I can be shy in big crowds but generally I'm just weird and I guess off-putting. But I'm interested in people enough that I have friends anyway, friends who appreciate the oddness.

... in terms of having a different worldview to most people, being quite obsessed by music, reading comics as an adult and so on.
It used to bother me a bit but then I realised two things

1. There are lots of others like me !

and

2. It really doesn't matter a limp fart in a wind tunnel what people you don't even know think of you. Can I say "**** 'em" on here ? Not sure about the rules on swearing.

I have always thought of myself as eccentric, decades before I ever heard of AS. As someone said here, I would have to go out of my way to not be (and I'm sure I could not sustain normalcy). I guess this is a product of my passion for my interests and the fact that not too many folks around me think those interests are, well, interesting. I also find it pretty amusing that I have friends specifically involved in each of those interests, and they think my other interests are weird! I know for a fact that most of my family think I'm eccentric, and fortunately, that is fine with them. Gee, I guess I have a role to play. They'd probably be disappointed if I became "normal" one day.

On Wikipedia, the article on eccentricity links to the article on Asperger's. So I think aspies are eccentric by default.

and whats wrong with being eccentric?

I'm chatty and eccentric and I find that to be a good thing. I feel more British than Canadian, I speak with a Cockney accent, and I'm also obsessed with London and which were the London Routemasters. You can't get any more eccentric than that.

For those of you who don't know what a Routemaster is:

We have some in British Columbia and some in Ontario.

Does otherworldly and scaring translates to eccentric? Or is that already another category?

I don't even know what eccentricity really is...

Anyway, I never ever thought of myself as eccentric.

I'm the stereotypical, mad and uneducated professor many times.

So, yeah.

I do not qualify or tag myself as being "eccentric", I think I am quite normal.

But people sure qualify me as being an "oddball" and being "original".