I like to make dead baby jokes, but apparently that isn't acceptable for some reason.

Don't think I do, or if I do I don't pay attention. Of course the amount of stuff I do that the majority would consider "normal" stuff isn't a large amount

I think this is all a matter of opinion. Your idea of people giving you weird looks, and your idea of normal.

I stopped giving a [censored] during college. If you're not in college yet, you will. If you are in, start immediately. And if you are out, stop worrying about your image already. You're old to everyone who bothers with image, so worry about real things like if you'll be able to pay rent and be able to eat this month. And if you don't need to worry about those things, then find a hobby and enjoy the [censored] out of it. That, or get married and have a family.

I get weird looks when people come into my house and hear my music and ask me if I really enjoy it. They say it sounds like it's just static or just really random but I happen to think it's beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCo1DDH_czA

I mean, how can you not like that? But that's the only stuff that sticks out since I don't really pay much mind to what people think or I'd worry too much.

I actually stare at peoples dogs because I have somewhat of a phobia for them (or whatever you'd like to lable it as, I can will myself not to run away in fear screaming if a dog is in my general area which points out to it not really being a phobia but I get fast heartbeats and I start sweating and I get a feeling of fear and dread if I see a dog) so I tend to keep a very close watch on them and will even go out of my way to avoid walking past a person with a dog. Something similar may be going on in your case OP

And I tend to get stares because of my long hair, it's quite short ATM, around 40 CM or so, but I'm growing it and it used to be a bit longer than 1 metre, which is what I'm aiming for. Sometimes people would even point and have others take a look when they think I don't notice them. I don't mind though, it does go outside of the social norms, granted it does peeve me a little that it seems girls having short hair is something people have gotten over but somehow men having long hair is something society just can't handle, but in the long run it doesn't matter. People can have opinions about others based on something as shallow as looks as long as they don't come up to their face and insult them directly because of it.

As for the argument on alcohol I have some pretty strong views on that which I can back up in an argument but that argument can only be made through PM's if it's made at all, since as I understand it we don't really approve of heated discussions about it on the forums.

I get weird looks for singing songs quietly to myself.

I was singing Winter Wrap Up from My Little Pony in study hall today, no body knew it was from MLP, and I didn't even realize I was singing unt someone pointed it out.

I also get negative comments for playing Oblivion and not Skyrim

Oh and for not kissing my girlfriend, we've only been on one date, and her dad doesn't let her date yet (but we do anyway) and she doesn't feel like our relationship is good enough to kiss yet, but I get all sorts of criticism from my buds.

I whistle all the time, especially when I'm working. I don't get weird looks, but usually some form of comment about how no-one could possibly genuinely whistle -- like it's something people only do in the movies or a hundred years ago.

Yeah I don't get why people get so sickened or angry about that. I mean, yeah, the jokes are weird but it's not like I'm actually going to try and paint my house by throwing dead babies at it or whatever.

I remember once in Home Ec, I was the only boy, the only one ever present anyway. One day we were making cakes with tons of Icing, I made a little too much so while everyone was cleaning their cup I would sit and eat the icing before cleaning it. Nearly all the girls would draw looks they never saw someone eat from a spoon before and that I was some sort of jake, only a few passed it off as normal since they were friends and knew it was normal for anyone making cakes.

Or during maths, we were learning something for the 1st time and I got asked to come up and answer a question in front of the class using the new smartboard - I never understood the subject completely since it was just taught to us but I wrote my answer with confidence - and I got it wrong, this wasn't surprising but the teacher asked me to do it again, did it differently - wrong again. The class begins drawing looks like I'm some sort of idiot but they wouldn't say anything until I turned my back to try a third attempt, got it right then, but one boy kept going on after being told to stop by the teacher, ohhh how I snapped That boy has never been a bother again.

Recently my neighbour keeps drawing me looks like I'm some sort of ghostly demon thing, he just has this look of panic in his eyes anytime I see him out in the streets on my way to work, usually around 7AM with his German Shepard, I think it's because once when the dog was being trained as a guard dog it went for me because he lost control and I punched it's jaw without hesitation, ever since when I've been walking by he pulls the dog right in and gives me the look. Though the dog has bothered me since, and I quite like the dog.

I don't usually listen to music in my free time nor do I own any ipod, itunes, or music CDs.

The problem is, asking what kind of music I like is one of the most common icebreaker questions that people who meet me for the first time ask me. When I tell them the truth, it all goes awkwardly downhill from there.

People apparently decide I'm weird since I don't drink, smoke, watch television or pursue social relationships, and apparently they're the only things a person is expected to enjoy.

that is p weird

The social relationships one is a bit strange. To each his own, though.

Being a hermit isn't strange, not to me at least.

He didn't say he's a hermit. He said he doesn't pursue social relationships. That's not the same thing.

Anyway, most people are social creatures. If "weird" or "strange" is the same as "outside of the norm", then avoiding social relationships falls into that category.

Note that just because I think it's strange doesn't mean I think it's "bad" or unhealthy.

someone looked at me funny and i thought nothing of it but just incase i asked him what was wrong and he said "you've got an arrow sticking out of your knee" ... wtf

I get weird looks when me and my friends are talking about video games, but that's no surprise.

Sometimes I get weird looks when reading, these are usually from the jock [censored]s at my school who think reading is, well, I don't know what the hell their thinking.
I especially get weird looks when I'm reading my Stephen Hawking books at school, their big, hardback, and full of diagrams and pictures, so they draw a lot of attention. Now I only read the average-sized, paperback books that look like any other so I don't get awkward stares from people who are wondering why the [censored] I'm reading books about string theory when everyone else is reading regular fiction.

I hate being interested in science, everyone hates me for it.

Try reading D&D rulebooks in public places, sheez... *looks at staring people* is this a zoo or something!?

Try reading them out loud.

O.o why would you read them out loud ? You can read a lot faster and keep better focus by reading in silence.

No, I don't have to do something normal in the first place for that to happen, and I honestly can't see that happening anytime soon.

Yeah I bet that would get me (and you, presumably ) a lot of "look at this nerd!" stares.
I'd rather be caught with my bigass copy of A Brief History of Time, that way I would at least look like some sort of kid genus.

Ugh, I hate that. My old boss used to do that all the time; I was a Tae Kwon Do instructor and I would be heading towards someone to help them out, or show them how to do something, but just as I got there he would point at the person and say "Help him!" >.< Why did you think I was walking towards that person?!



Heh, I actually brought the illustrated version of A Brief History of Time to class for reading when I was in elementary school, and the teacher made a big fuss about not allowing books with pictures. My mom had to slap some sense into her that the "no pictures" policy probably shouldn't extend to books written by a leading theoretical physicist.

I don't drink anymore either, it doesn't agree with me. Plus I drive to a lot of places, so alcohol doesn't mix with that.

People were always getting on at me about it and it went too far last year- some guy tried to force me to drink some beer thing with tequila he had and I punched him squarely in the face. Since then people just leave me alone when I say I don't wish to drink. They probably think I'm a complete psycho. Oh well, fine by me. I can get on with my lemonade in peace now.

I watch a lot of films, and prefer to stay in and do that rather than go out. Sometimes people will react negatively to that. I don't get on well with my peer group really, I definitely feel like I've matured faster then them. I had my 'wild rebellion' back when I was 16, whereas a lot of people I know seem to be having theirs now It can feel very lonely sometimes.