Quote Originally Posted by battybattybats View Post
Watch who your calling normal! It can be a terrible insult. I'm proud not to be 'normal' as normal has wife-beaters and pedophiles amongst it because thats the best place to hide when you have something sick and evil to hide! But amongst the weird are the kindest nicest gentlest and best people I've ever met! People unafraid to be honestly different. So I'd rather be amongst the weird then the normal, because almost the rot corruption, hypocracy and evil is amonsgt the normal.



Good. Eccentric people are usually safer than the predators who hide in sheeps clothing of 'normal'. And liberty means liberty, not a slight choice of conformity A or conformity B.

I've seen more outrageous clothes than you describe on GG goths in my own town! Including a friend of mine!



Well drug-use is often one way people try to cope with things like the trauma of oppression and repression and the family abandonment that many especially older TG people have gad to face when coming out.

And there is lots of mental health issues many face too. Only through more acceptance can we get rid of these problems of drugs and mental helath problems amongst our community.

So consider universal acceptance of free expression. And maybe those people will be able to be happy and ok in the future!
So now who's generalizing? You can be weird and still be mentally healthy, but "not normal" is what I'm defining as seeming distinctly UNHEALTHY. Whether by some mental illness or through drug use, it doesn't matter.

Now, you're talking about using drugs to COPE with whatever societal ill you feel has befallen you or the people refer to? Yeah, sorry, escapism is NOT coping, you're just running away from it and never dealing with it. And yes, I know that some people cannot be reasoned with and will never change their opinions, but that's their loss. That's why people seek support from friends and strangers, both online and in person. Realizing that something is not necessarily your fault is important. Drugs will NEVER help you deal with that, because now in addition to being some pervert to this person or people, you're also a druggie, and quite possibly an addict.

And while we're on the subject of weirdos being better than the normal people, you should look up David Berkowitz. So let's not defend the abnormal by blanket statement either.