Quirky

I love the days when i can just "let the crazy out" - I am so much more "me" when I can be like that, - geek and proud!

Same here. And I'm still figuring out who I am and how to do that too. 

I’m 32 and I’ve reached that point where I can no longer act for other people benefits, so gonna try my hardest to let go and be the real me now, whoever that is.

Yep - very tiring - I totally burned out and became very ill.    I 'succeeded' in early life but at a very great cost later on.   

You must be very tired keeping up the facade, I don’t want too pretend to be someone else to try and fit in their world anymore it’s time to be me and live how in my world, people can either except the or F off lol. 

Oops I did mean embracing lol. I want to be free to be me and not care what people think. 

Plastic said:

people accept quirky extroverts but quirky introverts are deemed to be a legitimate target for bullies.

...Thank You for This. This another thing which I did not know as a child and so I was "robbed of My 'Yoof'... " (!)

I saw this Thread but had no idea how to reply to it, until You Posted (always so happy & stretchy!). I thought that the "I need to start embarrassing my quirkinesses" was a typo for "I need to start embracing my quirkiness". I embraced My own "quirks" via offering aggressive-seeming attitude: e.g. "Yes, I am not like You - deal with it!"... Of course this resulted in My having to 'watch My Back' a lot (!), but for Myself it is a lot less stressful than being afraid and constantly trying to "fit in". Not sure what else to say here now, though... Good Luck, All!

I figured out very early on that people accept quirky extroverts but quirky introverts are deemed to be a legitimate target for bullies.

I developed a big, fake personality to get by.     It served me well for over 30 years.