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Life has broken my heart

Roswell

People pick on me all the time and no one gets it. I can't be myself. They try to force me to be something else and even if I dressed like them, talked like them, walked like them, they'd still tear into me.

I've heard people say look for the people you can get along with but I can't find them.

Every day I go outside I feel like crying, sometimes I do get home and cry.

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  • Isn't it weird that the world is 'all for diversity' yet when somebody doesn't conform to the rat race it terrifies them? The truth is they're probably intimidated by you and the only way they know how to deal with it is to lash out. You sit outside of their deep cultured beliefs of what a 'man' should look like and do.

    From reading your responses you are still you, as in you're still dressing the same etc which is a huge positive in itself - don't let them change who you are.

    At work I have a boring job that most people don't understand, it's all numbers based. I remember once a colleague was shocked because my car is bright yellow - she said it didn't fit me. I'm expected to drive a grey BMW I think but I hate them, they all look the same and are boring. Why would I want that just to fit it? People expect you to behave and look a certain way because they behave and look a certain way and when you don't it upsets them (for some reason??)

    It's easy for me to type words though, in reality it's very hard to ignore the negative behaviour of others. It does get you down. But there's lots of accepting people out there too, like the people here, who aren't threatened by difference and are accepting of other people's uniqueness.

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  • Isn't it weird that the world is 'all for diversity' yet when somebody doesn't conform to the rat race it terrifies them? The truth is they're probably intimidated by you and the only way they know how to deal with it is to lash out. You sit outside of their deep cultured beliefs of what a 'man' should look like and do.

    From reading your responses you are still you, as in you're still dressing the same etc which is a huge positive in itself - don't let them change who you are.

    At work I have a boring job that most people don't understand, it's all numbers based. I remember once a colleague was shocked because my car is bright yellow - she said it didn't fit me. I'm expected to drive a grey BMW I think but I hate them, they all look the same and are boring. Why would I want that just to fit it? People expect you to behave and look a certain way because they behave and look a certain way and when you don't it upsets them (for some reason??)

    It's easy for me to type words though, in reality it's very hard to ignore the negative behaviour of others. It does get you down. But there's lots of accepting people out there too, like the people here, who aren't threatened by difference and are accepting of other people's uniqueness.

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