Not caring what people think

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I am a bit of an individualist. I prefer to do things differently than everyone else. What if people judge me? That's their problem. I don't care what people think. I am unique, and I am a bit weird. I kind of like being considered weird and different.

Who else doesn't care what people think of them? Who else goes their own way instead of conforming to societal norms or trends?

I really don't give two craps how people view me.

I try to live a moral and decent life.

I think my nature is to care, but I've had to train myself not to care. People misunderstand and misjudge me, and I've learned that no amount of explaining myself will make a difference, so I just accept it. (I don't mean for that to come across as bitter and cynical - more 'serene' really, in accepting what I cannot change!)

I don't really care. I don't like being stared at so I try not to draw attention to myself, but even that I am forgetful of a lot of the time. Online I used to worry about it, but have been at this so long now, I don't care as much. Like me or hate me, it's up to them.

I couldn't care less what people think of me unless it's complimentary

As long as I'm not doing anything illegal, I don't care what other people think of me. Chances are, I'm not important enough for people to remember for the rest their lives, and I will never meet them again after the thing is finished. I'll be wasting mental energy by caring what they think of me.

We are wired to care about what others think about us. You can say you don't care what others think of you but I'm not convinced. I believe in human nature.

I'm not particulary bothered what the average person in the street thinks of me. But I do care that I make a good impression at work, or in situations where I'm going to be involved with people like my daughter's school, so in those situations I tend to be very polite and diplomatic.

I usually have pink or purple hair (for the last 20 years or so). I sometimes get random people comment on it like they wish they were brave enough to dye their hair like that, and I think what are you actually afraid of? The obvious answer is either that their hair will fall out or other people might think they are strange. For me, everybody thinks I'm strange anyway no matter what I do, so I might as well dye my hair because that does make me happy.
I've also had people saying "That's making a statement!" To which I think "really? what's it saying?" because to me the only thing it's saying is that I like having purple hair.

I embrace my weirdness. I think one of the reasons I dress weird is that it is an outward expression of the weirdness inside, but most of the time, it's just what I like to wear. I think maybe there is also an element of filtering going on- if someone is put off by how I look, then they probably won't be the kind of person I would like to be around anyway.

while i don't do it, i would probably be completely fine with making a complete ass of myself, in a place where i'm sure i will never see the people again. i care least what they think.

here at home, where people know me, it's a different story. i will see them again, and i know i will never get to hear the end of it if i'm caught being atrocious. their opinion has a little more weight, to me.

the opinions i care about most are those from the people whom i have become attached to because they have given me what i need. it's a dangerous habit. they can make you feel elated, you can walk on sunshine and then you will want to kill yourself: the choice is theirs.

don't trust others to make you happy.

I care and people who say they don't are simply bottling it up.

I wish I could care a lot less!! !! ! But I haven't gotten to that point yet. If I did care less, I would have a lot less mental stuff to process in social situations that is for sure. I think the way that I am wired makes me care even more....so it would be nice to care less and get away from myself....if that makes any sense.

I try not to, but it's not so easy. Sometimes I do find myself worrying about what others think of me. Then there's the feeling of being stared at.

I care enough to dress appropiately and I try not to offend people, curse around small children. Otherwise it's all fair game, if I feel like being silly I go for it. No reason not to have fun as far as I'm concerned.

After years of being in various sub cultures, I've found that if you care to some huge extent what the idiots say to you then you're emotionally unstable in some way or other. Most of the time you can actually just brush the insults off and not actually care because they're super unintelligent. For example: "GOTH!" and I'm just like "what, really? where?" lol

There are certain places I just can't go because I would actually get physically abused, there's lots of places like that which you just stay the hell away from because they're so closed minded they're like indigenous tribe people. In a way I always thought being different actually made me way more street smart than the average person because you kinda just KNOW when someones gonna do something to you after spending some time out and about in a busy city. It makes it easier because I just like cross over or go down a busy street before they even get chance to do anything ridiculous.

For actual harsh verbal abuse I've received off complete strangers for dressing differently, it obviously makes me angry and I usually don't say anything back because they want a reaction in the first place so I walk on but then will later rant about it to a friend or put it as a status and I usually get support by close people who do actually care about me. But I'm not really that bothered by it anymore on the whole after more than 15 years of it, it's just something to be expected.

Online I do sometimes get abuse but I tend to just block literally everyone who has some kind of problem with me because I don't come on the Internet to get abuse from immature idiots.

Most of the time if I go out I'll just wear massive over ear headphones which bleed a bit of sound out so it's like OBVIOUS to them that I can't hear them hence I don't care about anything when those are on.

Whenever I've received any kind of abuse while walking around with my mum, she has actually gone up to them and broken their nose or headbutted them lol. But that's a whole other crazy barrel of stories.