Which is ironic because I try (kinda) to be a nonconformist.
Like dad, if I was conforming I'd bleach my hair blonde, wear yoga pants, take pictures of my food instead of eating it, and indiscriminately tweet #blessed.
When I cook I am always proud, because I don't cook very often, but I never think to take a picture of it. I mean I don't really ever think to take a picture of anything. 90% of photos on my phone are saved from the internets.
Wouldn't it be good to conform though, at least some? I mean, real true-blue non-conformity is the Unibomber. Everything else is just personal preference.
Non-conformosts are silly. If you want to be your own person, just do whatever feels right to you without regard for whether it's popular. It takes a massive tool to make a conscious effort to not fit in, and ultimately you're just as beholden by popular sentiment as the people you try to avoid; for you it's just inverted.
Non-conformosts are silly. If you want to be your own person, just do whatever feels right to you without regard for whether it's popular. It takes a massive tool to make a conscious effort to not fit in, and ultimately you're just as beholden by popular sentiment as the people you try to avoid; for you it's just inverted.
And most of the time it is not even that. Non-Conformists are just saying that they don't conform to some other social group, while totally conforming with another that just happens to dominate their own social group. Doesn't matter of it is school cliques, or adult sub-cultures, or even religious and political identities.
So Rax mentions blue hair as non-conformity, but that totally is conformity. Blue hair is as common as dicks. Non-conformity would be getting blue hair in the 1960's. Or, alternatively, wearing your hair in a full-on beehive now.
In psychology they actually consider there to be two distinct types of non-conformity: independence and anti-conformity. Anti-conformity is arguably just another form of conformity. As the name implies, it involves deliberately acting in whatever way a person considers to be the opposite of the norm. As their behaviour is still absolutely dictated by popular opinion and normality, just in the polar opposite direction, it is not true non-conformity. The only form of true non-conformity is "independence"; or, in other words, what Nex described. Independent people do as they wish regardless of its popularity. Because of this, they also rarely tend to describe themselves as non-conformists, as many of their interests or behaviours do match with the norm. The difference is that they don't match with the norm simply because it is the norm, but rather because their own interest happens to coincide with others'.
That's the official psychological perspective, anyway.
I'm guessing your family is religious? Mine used to be all about "don't conform to the pattern of this world" shit. Actually they probably still are. I put myself on the other side of a massive body of water. Now I don't deal with it as much.
Which is ironic because I try (kinda) to be a nonconformist.
Like dad, if I was conforming I'd bleach my hair blonde, wear yoga pants, take pictures of my food instead of eating it, and indiscriminately tweet #blessed.
Do u feel me spam
Being nonconformist is conformist nowadays. I.e. hipster culture
Non-conformosts are silly. If you want to be your own person, just do whatever feels right to you without regard for whether it's popular. It takes a massive tool to make a conscious effort to not fit in, and ultimately you're just as beholden by popular sentiment as the people you try to avoid; for you it's just inverted.
This is mostly what I do, just go along and do my own thing and not worry too much about it. But you just can't help being self-conscious of it sometimes, especially since I always have people pointing out how different I am from what they're used to. So in a way I'm not really trying but I'm definitely more than a little proud of who I am.
I had a big personal thing that I typed up and deleted.
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Pics? I love dyed hair.
Prove it.
It's kinda fading now. Originally it was dyed black and when I tried to bleach it the ends wouldn't come out so they just stayed black so I ended up with a neat blue/black combination. Also what you can't see in the pic is my padawan braid :D I've had it for 2 years and it's super long, and also both sides of my head are buzzed (not the back though) so in the end it's really just a lazy mohawk. Meh.
I'm guessing your family is religious? Mine used to be all about "don't conform to the pattern of this world" shit. Actually they probably still are. I put myself on the other side of a massive body of water. Now I don't deal with it as much.
Anyway do your own thing, doll.
Yeah I grew up in a conservative Christian home, and I was homeschooled, but honestly I think that's what mostly contributed to my oddness because I never had to worry about social pressures or fitting in b/c all homeschoolers are kinda weird. Also my parents have always trusted me, I've been a good kid, so they basically let me do whatever I want. I mean sometimes they grump a little but hey, I'm not doing drugs or having sex with anyone soooo they mostly just shrug it off. I always say "Don't worry, it's probably just a phase."
But I like to tease my dad a lot because to him the absolute worst thing I could do is get a questionable piercing or a tattoo. So that's really where this conversation comes from. "Hey dad, what if I got a tattoo?" "Don't."
But yeah on the whole they are proud of me and are generally supportive so I can't really complain.
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dude but really tho
just beehive it up
YOUNG MAN put some bees in your mouth I say YOUNG MAN put some bees in your mouth...
