Thank God for Freaks!

[sweetnpetite]

One time I worked at this gas station and there was a guy who came in all the time- nice guy, I always spoke with him. He was into extreme peircings, tatoos, brandings all kinds of stuff. Anyway, this one night he came in and as he left this really preppy customer (young 20 something guy) grumbles "That's what's wrong with the world today." I remember thinking, "NO- you're what's wrong with the world today."

Another time I went into hot topic. There was this little guy with so many earings and tatoos it was crazy. Real 'freaky' looking. He was greeting everyone really chearfully. This 'normal' looking woman just rushed past him looking pissed off, didn't acknowledge his chearful greeting. Maybe she had bigger things on her mind or whatever.

Serial killers- notice how everyone thinks they seemed so sweet and normal until they snap? Everyone has dirty laundry- the poeple who work so hard to look like they've got it all together, and to make people think that they couldn't possibly have any skelotens- these are the people that scare me.

Another thing- the softer the target, the harder armour you need. people with a tough outer shell usually tend to be really sweet, sensative, and easily hurt people. They put on all that armour for a reason.

Besides- freaky poeple are just plain more interesting.

So i'll say it one more time:

"Thank God for Freaks"

 

[Dar~]

Amen . . .you preach good.
I was ultra defensive to everyone, b/c they were always trying to hurt me. I was nice but ready to lash out if someone tried anything. Only the really freaky people were good to me. I thank the world for my freaky friends.

Dar-

 

[sweetnpetite]

Oh and I forgot to mention. I believe in magic spells, gardian angels, witches, vampires, fairies, ghosts and a host of other things.

I also beleive at varius times that i am a pixie, a mermaid, a dryad and a goddess How can I be all of these? I'm a shapeshifter of course.

I believe the power of the mind far outweighs the limitations of what we generally believe to be possible or true.

And I've cast a spell or two that have worked pretty darn well.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Amen . . .you preach good.
I was ultra defensive to everyone, b/c they were always trying to hurt me. I was nice but ready to lash out if someone tried anything. Only the really freaky people were good to me. I thank the world for my freaky friends.

Dar-

Amen to that. I love my friends. Misfits and freaks, every last one. Wonderful people who taught me everything I know about life and love and art.

 

[sweetnpetite]

Amen . . .you preach good.
I was ultra defensive to everyone, b/c they were always trying to hurt me. I was nice but ready to lash out if someone tried anything. Only the really freaky people were good to me. I thank the world for my freaky friends.

Dar-

I'm sure that somewhere there are 'freakier than thou' type people, but I haven't come accross them. Everytime I go into hot topic or anyplace like that, I worry that they are going to look down on me or something becuase I look so 'normal' [vanilla/straight-laced/whatever] but they never do. As long as you treat them well and nonjudgemenally, they generally return the favor.

 

[Boota]

Years ago my mom worked at a store that had a really eclectic clientele. She said that the uppity doctors and lawyers who came in were the biggest fucking assholes and the scruffiest and meanest looking bikers were the nicest and most polite.

Aside from my shaved head and the fact that I look meaner than Satan on a tequila bender, people are shocked to find out how nice I really am. I'm polite and friendly to everyone. You know... until they have an ass kicking coming. LOL. I generally look pretty normal, but I'm weirder than any perforated purple-haired freak you can find.

 

[sweetnpetite]

1.Years ago my mom worked at a store that had a really eclectic clientele. She said that the uppity doctors and lawyers who came in were the biggest fucking assholes and the scruffiest and meanest looking bikers were the nicest and most polite.

2.Aside from my shaved head and the fact that I look meaner than Satan on a tequila bender, people are shocked to find out how nice I really am. I'm polite and friendly to everyone. You know... until they have an ass kicking coming. LOL. I generally look pretty normal, but I'm weirder than any perforated purple-haired freak you can find.

1. I believe it.

2. You bear a slight resemblence to my b/f.

 

[cloudy]

I got my first tattoo when I was 19 - suffice it to say that it was a long time ago (no cracks about my age, please). At the time, I lived in Los Angeles, and a woman having a tattoo out there was nothing unusual.

About a year or a year and a half after I got it, I moved to Tennessee. I got one of two reactions, there was no middle ground. Most guys, except the uber-conservatives, absolutely loved it. Everyone else thought I was either a biker chick, or a piece of trash for having one. It baffled me, to be honest. I couldn't see what the big deal was.

Since then, I've gotten three more. Still don't care what anyone thinks.

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

Not tryin' to be argumentative, but I've never understood the "putting metal through parts of my body" thing. And the most interesting people I've ever known didn't have to make themselves look it.

 

[elsol]

I would say it was more judgemental than anything else, Joe.

It's okay though... I'll trump your judgemental.

Freaks make me feel good about myself. At least, I'm not THAT freaky!

And I can mean a lot with freaky... like Tri-athletes... let's be honest now, 'A little Freaky! Cooler than just plain marathoners, but still freaks!'

Purple hair, and more than 2 piercings... Freak.

"I'm going to be a virgin until I marry'... EEEK!

Pretty much anything can be taken to freak level... love of chocolate? My SO giggles and flushes like she's having an orgasm!

So you see, every time I think 'Hmm... this whole tyeing a girl down is pretty freaky... but you know, I don't wear leather and expect her to call me 'Master'... even if the Master thing would be pretty cool... so how freaky could I be, really?'

Sincerely,
ElSol

 

[sweetnpetite]

Not tryin' to be argumentative, but I've never understood the "putting metal through parts of my body" thing. And the most interesting people I've ever known didn't have to make themselves look it.

That's the problem. You cannot accept what you don't understand. You think that it should have to make sense to *you* in order for it to be ok. Or make some sort of 'logical' sence. You close your mind off. You limit yourself.

Sure, some interesting people don't 'look it.' But then it depends on what you consider interesting too. To me, interesting is about variety. Not about surounding myself with people who are all just like me, or don't push any of my boundaries or expectations of 'normal.'

But that's just me. And I don't mean to be argumentative either. I guess it just comes natural.

 

[sophia jane]

Amen to that. I love my friends. Misfits and freaks, every last one. Wonderful people who taught me everything I know about life and love and art.

Amen to your amen.

SJ

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

That's the problem. You cannot accept what you don't understand. You think that it should have to make sense to *you* in order for it to be ok. Or make some sort of 'logical' sence. You close your mind off. You limit yourself.

I can, and do, accept some things I don't understand--just like anyone else. I don't think things have to make sense to me in order for them to be o.k. I do like for things to make sense, in general. I think I've got a very open mind, and can't recall the last time I ever limited myself.

Sure, some interesting people don't 'look it.' But then it depends on what you consider interesting too. To me, interesting is about variety. Not about surounding myself with people who are all just like me, or don't push any of my boundaries or expectations of 'normal.'

To me, interesting is about what's inside, not out. Interesting is ideas. Interesting is personality. Interesting is grace, even. Variety is excellent for those things, I don't much like being around people just like me. External stuff? Amusement, not interest.

 

[English Lady]

Generally, I like people. Doesn't matter on the look but I am often surprised by the friendliness and kindness of strangers.

When Beth was a tiny little baby I was constantly grinning at the big burly men who would completely melt in her presence. Biker guys with tatoos, corporate men with briefcases, they all fell under her charm.

A good online friend of mine has a thing about piercings, he finds them sexy. He's got loads. I don't get it myself (don't have a single one on my person) but hey ho, each to their own say I.

Anyhow, we're all freaks in someones eyes,

 

[sweetnpetite]

Anyhow, we're all freaks in someones eyes,

I'd add this to my sigline- but lit won't let me.

 

[NoJo]

Aside from my shaved head and the fact that I look meaner than Satan on a tequila bender, people are shocked to find out how nice I really am. I'm polite and friendly to everyone. You know... until they have an ass kicking coming. LOL. I generally look pretty normal, but I'm weirder than any perforated purple-haired freak you can find.

Make up your fucking mind...

 

[ElizabethWest]

I'll agree with your amen to freaks. In ultra-conservative southern Kentucky, there aren't many I run into that would qualify for that honor. But the two guys I know who have tattoos and tongue studs are two of the sweetest, kindest, most polite people I know. Either one would do anything for anybody.

As for me, I have no tattoos or piercings and many people see me as a bitch. Job hazard. But I don't spend much time trying to disillusion them. I'm usually so distracted by my inner thoughts that bank tellers and grocery check-out girls probably see me as rude. I suppose I should make a better effort to interact with those RL people a little more civilly.

 

[rgraham666]

Never cared too much what people looked like. It's how they act that's important.

I'll confess to being a bit put off by 'extreme' (Note the quotes, this is a very subjective observation) tattoos and piercings. My own read is that the person is trying too hard to be an individual.

I feel the same way about people who try to hard to make money, or a lot of things people do to excess.

Just my $.02.

 

[carsonshepherd]

To me, interesting is about what's inside, not out. Interesting is ideas. Interesting is personality. Interesting is grace, even. Variety is excellent for those things, I don't much like being around people just like me. External stuff? Amusement, not interest.

I agree with you... (gulp) A long time ago, I stopped caring about looking interesting or behaving in a way that draws attention to myself. Most people have no idea I have tattoos, and I don't tell them because that's not interesting. When people gawk at someone who has purple hair and piercings everywhere and thinks "What a freak!" they are just giving that person what they are after, which is attention. Want to interest me? Prove you're interesting. Don't just expect me to believe it because you have metal stuck through your body parts.

(Piercings not my thing... but to each their own. I had my ears done, but don't wear anything in them much anymore.)

 

[carsonshepherd]

I'll confess to being a bit put off by 'extreme' (Note the quotes, this is a very subjective observation) tattoos and piercings. My own read is that the person is trying too hard to be an individual.

.

"Hey! I want to be different just like everyone else!"

 

[OhMissScarlett]

"Hey! I want to be different just like everyone else!"

In highschool, Carson and I always got gawked at wherever we went. Now, we couldn't make people stare if we tried. Tattoos, dyed hair, and combat boots don't raise in eyebrows in our little hometown these days. These kids today don't know how good they've got it.

 

[Liar]

In highschool, Carson and I always got gawked at wherever we went. Now, we couldn't make people stare if we tried.

Tried streaking?




Anyway, I have to say that I don't understand the whole "looking freaky" thing. I don't mind what stuff people do to their bodies as a personal expression, but more often than not, doing the freak thing seems to be an attempt to fit in with a niche more than a means to express individuality.

There have been times when I have felt like an outcast because I was appearing too plain. Last summer I and a couple of friends wanted to go to this club that was known for two things, good music and freaky patrons. Their major message to the world was - officially at least - "In here, nobody can tell you what to think, how to act and how to look. In here, everyone is accepted for who they are."

Except me, because I wore jeans and a t-shirt.

I got stared down for looking vanilla, got snide remarks about my lack of metal in the face, my lack of tattoos in the face and my lack of make-up in the face. Apparently, in this place where "oh yes, everyone is accepted", I wasn't accepted because I wasn't enough of a freak. And thus not cool. Or something.

So yeah, I salute the real freaks, who are freaks to the core, but most freaks I've met are just as desperate to fit in as the rest of us.

#L

 

[carsonshepherd]

I totally relate to your story, Liar. The only way to express your individuality is to not give a shit about looking cool, or being different.

PS - vanilla is sexy

 

[NoJo]

I totally relate to your story, Liar. The only way to express your individuality is to not give a shit about looking cool, or being different.

PS - vanilla is sexy

Specially when smeared on beef jerky.

 

[English Lady]

Liar brings up a good point. I have always just worn what I feel comfy in and therefore in school was seen as quite the freak because I didn't fit into any"look" most freaky looking people look that way because they want into the "freaky looking" group and need some way to look different but still be exactly the same as at least a certain group of people.

I find that kinda sad really.