Is being liked and fitting in important to you?

I have always done my own thing since I entered the world, being liked and fitting in has never been high on my agenda, just being me. This didn't go down too well with my mother, in particular, especially as I have always been a tom boy and detested dressing up and wearing pretty clothes!

I will stick my neck out and confront what I see as wrong even if it doesn't make me popular, or even puts me in peril. For instance, in the 80s I was in a town in Cambridgeshire where we then lived when I noticed some yobs surrounding the a 'bag lady' and taunting her. I waded in and told them to leave her alone, I thought they were going to hit me, and we had a stand off. But in the end they ran away using some choice language as they went. The bag lady didn't seem too thrilled with my invention either, and told me to b*gger off!

Going where angels fear to tread is very me! I have been in many life threatening situations since infancy, and any of them could have rendered me very dead! I had loads of thrashings during my childhood because of my crazy stunts. There would have been many more, if my parents had discovered all the mad things I got up to!

I have been told many times that I am a one off. My family believe me to be a senile eccentric, so I must be doing something right! I wouldn't want to be any different, how about you?

Re: Is being liked and fitting in important to you?

I have always gone where Angels fear to tread but I think you have
to choose your moments.
Well done for your Samaritan work with the bag lady but putting
yourself in danger wont help if you do get killed will it?
If you are older now you cant do exactly what you used to do
so you need maybe to temper it down a little.
Nothing wrong in being forward coming backwards as they say
but self survival should now be overtaking your ambition to be
an individual in danger.
Good luck with the rest of your life, just remember its best to be
here than there

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Can't say it bothers me if someone dislikes me usually they are not people I would enjoy the company of anyway. I prefer people see me as honest and caring rather than dishonest or nasty. But I cannot control how others behave so don't really think much about it these days. Took me a while to get to that place but now I am here it's better than worrying about what people think.

Re: Is being liked and fitting in important to you?

have t admit it doesn't really bother me what people think, I try to be kind and amiable, and leave it at that.
Different strokes for different folks.

Re: Is being liked and fitting in important to you?

No it doesn't bother me - I find people difficult to understand anyway. I've learnt over the years, people either accept me or they don't.

Re: Is being liked and fitting in important to you?

No it doesn't bother me either, I'm just my usual self at all time

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I am unlikely to change now, and would still wade in if I thought necessary!

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Never had any regard for what others think of me, only those who are important to me. And no doubt there are many, many people who are the same. Not any kind of uniqueness in that way of thinking. And there are more than enough misfits to go around

Re: Is being liked and fitting in important to you?

Wade away.

Re: Is being liked and fitting in important to you?

Generally if I like them I prefer that they like me but if I don't like them I am not bothered whether they like me or not.