Getting away with being weird as a child but not afterwards

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I used to be capable of getting away with meltdowns, but not anymore.

I can relate. I began lagging behind in junior high (ages 13-15), in particular in school the days became too long and demanding for me and, and things got harder as I became an older teen.

It was the other way around for me, I was severely beaten and punished as a child for any "weird" behaviour. It was still pretty tough in my youth, but at least I had more control over my life. Things became much better after 35 when it became easier and easier for me to find people who accepted me - eccentricities and all - without making much fuss. I don't have a lot of friends, but the ones I have are in for the long haul and these days neither them or my family bats an eye at my "weird" behaviour

Yes and no.

Social rules for children are easy, which is why-- unless you're rebellious than weird, there's a difference. Or if, your household or environment had little tolerance for 'deviation'.
I didn't get away with being odd, they either pester me or scold me for it.

As a teen, it's a nightmare that I would never come back into. Never getting away with it, no matter the reason. That includes 'acting normal'.

In this present? I get away with many things. Probably because of close ones acceptance, understanding to self, and my obsession with secrets and discretion. I found a loophole, and a right set of skills for myself.


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I don't care what my mum expects from me. I'm not going to grow up the way she wants me to. I'm going to wear my Om Nom slippers to my parents place the next time I go visit them, to prove a point between being juvenile and needing a comfort item related to my Special Interests.

When I was a child I don't think I even noticed that I was doing anything Weird, I didn't even think it was wrong to walk on all fours like a cat but then I was bullied for the rest of my primary school years because of that, even when I grew out of it.

Junior high school was basically hell for me.

I found it to be the other way round with school. I did not fit in at junior school. I got badly bullied, first year of high school was rubbish, but then a new girl moved in and we were both weird so we clicked (we were like Daria and Jane Lane) and I got talking to another weird girl who ate lunch in the same place as me and we became friends and we met another 2 weird girls and we all just hung out together. We weren't interested in the popular kids, if there were any, and we didn't feel like outsiders. We just were who we were.

Being in my 30s is more difficult because peoples lives have taken a different rote to mine. They've settled down with families and I'm still single.

My brother has always seemed to have gotten away with being weird. Even now. Especially now.

It has been more the other way around for me.

Yup, this is me. When I started seventh grade, my friends started asking me to please start acting more normal because I was embarrassing them.

I didn't "get away" with being weird as a child. I was bullied, sometimes rather unmercifully, because of my weirdness.

As an adult, I "get away" with being weird much more often.

I didn't get away with being weird so much as didn't understand that this was a problem. Maturity meant I finally caught up, in my developmentally delayed sort of way, to realise holy sh!t man, I'm supposed to be suddenly married twice, divorced once with three kids, hell bent on climbing some kind of corporate ladder to "further my career" and 20K into a suburban mortgage by now.
It's been hard to realise I am not, nor likely ever will be, at the "level" of others my age.

I'm still weird and childish, and proud of it!