How Many Here Have Been Told They Are "Strange?"

by snowbird 62 Replies latest jw friends

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  wha happened?

  I am strange and rather proud
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  snowbird

  Odd, eccentric, weird, peculiar, unusual, different; I've been called all those - plus more!

  Sylvia
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  StAnn

  Don't you think it's strange that we're all considered strange??

  What do you make of it, LadyLee?

  St. Ann
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  minimus

  I'm still kewl.
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  JeffT

  Don't you think it's strange that we're all considered strange??

  Some of the most screwed up people I've known considered themselves "normal."
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  truthseeker

  I was called weird, strange. Members of the congregation were spreading rumors about me that I was mentally ill.

  I found out some years later that a sister in my old hall was spreading malicious gossip about me. When I was first dating my wife, this sister in my hall told the wife of a friend of mine at the Kingdom Hall "hasn't Truthseeker told her he has a mental illness?"

  Unknown to me at the time, my friends wife actually spoke up for me and told her that what she said wasn't true.

  The next time I visit the congregation, an aquaintance of mine told me that a friend in the hall said "Truthseeker is pretending to be normal because he knows he has to be."

  I mean, WTF? How can people act like this and then go on the doors preaching?
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  truthseeker

  Thing is, all I wanted was a normal life in the congregation. This was before the days of the internet.

  I literally had no friends my own age and this wasn't because of a lack of people, they had all tarred me with the same brush.

  Although I forgive in the sense of not allowing them to affect my future, I want nothing more to do with them.

  I had a weird upbringing, nothing made sense to me, I was bullied at school every other day. I hated my childhood but I was allowed to play with the worldly kids on my street and I used to hang out with them a lot. Those were the days.
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  free2think

  I was labelled as a shopaholic, does that count?

  I wasnt really a shopaholic, just your average girl with an interest in fashion. But of course i was a leader not a follower.
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  snowbird

  Shopaholic doesn't count, Little One.

  Not the one on this board, of course.

  Sylvia
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  kurtbethel

  Many many times.

  My favorite was my grandmother, who said I was "touched".

  I prefer the company of other strange people.