Stop labeling me!

[Korkskrew]

It bugs me so much that people just have to stick me into one little niche and I can't be anything else.
Whenever I listen to Offspring or The Blackthorn Band everyone looks at me like I just bent over backward and stuck my head up my ass!
I listen to a lot of metal, that doesn't solely make me a metalhead!
I listen to a lot of punk, that doesn't make me one!
I've smoked pot before *GASP!* I'm not a druggy!
I play tabletop and computer games! Stop calling me a nerd!

I honestly thought all this BS would end after highschool. No such luck... I'm sick of it, and I finally snapped and had to rant. Next time you look at someone don't think of them as a niche, think of them as a person!

[Ciarin]

Don't sweat the small stuff. Does it really matter what others call you?

[Ammo0]

Korkskrew wrote: "I honestly thought all this BS would end after highschool"

I thought this too, after highschool I joined the up with USAF and I can honestly say it was worse than highschool with the sh... stuff I put up with. But the thing I learned is do the same thing I did in high school, hang out with those that have like interests.

[thepigsmustdie]

perfectly understood man I hate labels as much as I hate geners I lift wights and play games have a hobbie about guns and many other things I am not a
redneck
alchoholic (I drink once every two weeks)
computer nerd
metalhead
jock(I don't even play football)
and many other things

/rant off

I really understand were you came from this and my hat is off to you Kork, and I mean this.

[Evil_Gondi]

That's funny, I don't deal with this stuff in highschool. It ended in middleschool (though with the influx of new fish (freshmen), it's picked up a little.

I usually shrug it off and tell them the latest rumour spreading about them. That usually sends them off on their way.

[Mutton]

Reminds me of when I was a teenager and my peers were attempting to figure out themselves by comparring themselves to other people.

Why should you care what they think of you? Most people are more lost than you and trying to find any point of reference.

Go read this: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684825546/104-9745468-3679111?v=glance
It's about cutting off your fingers, whores and rum.

[Soria]

It's human nature Kork. We have a drive to label and organize things sop we can put onto little shelves. I know it's sucks, but with people becoming more ecletic is tastes, life styles etc, who knows?

[Jacene]

You would be amazed at some people. I got my eyebrow pierced a few months ago and I have been called many new things...such as a pagan, punk and metalhead, f@#%&t, and many others. Yet at the same time totally random girls I have NEVER met in my life say its a huge turn on and extremely hot. So whatever is "negative" to some people may be positives to others.

[Chewbenator]

Ive just decided to be everything, I wear a polo shirt (prep), (emo) jacket, Birkenstocks ("stoner" sandals), glasses (nerd), and baggy shorts (all catagories).

But, I know that I am a nerd, and I am perfectly fine with it. I like using music to identify with different types of people, its a great thing to make friends with. I listen to almost everything, and so I have alot of friends that are into different things.

[Darth Lorax]

I say pick a label and embrace it. Then do everything you can to break the stereotype just to confuse people. The bottom line is to be yourself and don't worry about what people call you. If it helps their small minds deal with the world then that's their problem.

[Dilorenzo]

I used to worry about that all the time too- til it finally hit me the people labelling m weren't actually worth my time.
Life's so much easier when you're a right bastard.

[Daiv]

They laughed at me because I was different.

I laughed at them, because they were all the same.

THey also found out the hard way I was a qualified Self Defence instructor when I was 17.
Oooh, the idiots bruised very well.

Anyway mate... Don't worry about them. In a few years you may never see them again.

Man I was a right loner in college, I knew 2 people well (I was having problems with friends dieing, and it messed with my life). I didn't talk to anyone else. Somone threw a pie at me, and I just flipped and hurt a few people in the process. Its amazing how much youths of my day respected violence. :(

[Nymph]

Well we know very well what stereotype I am :twisted:

Kork dear if you have to be labled jus tell them your true one....The Nymph's Whipping Ninja....If that doesn't work tell me their addresses and I shall go wreek havoc upon them !!!!!!!!!!!! /HUGS hun. People are dumb, let them be. You know who you are and thats all that matters :D