Artist Creates A Comic To Show How Wrong The “I’m Not Like The Other Girls” Attitude Really Is
Julie Hang has always been doing cartoon drawings. Ever since she was a little kid. But there’s something else that Julie had dedicated a lot of her younger days to. Alienating herself from others and rationalizing to herself that it’s ok because she’s “not like the other girls.”
“I was a shy, anxious kid, and had a hard time making friends,” Julie told Bored Panda. “Instead of recognizing my anxiety and trying to overcome it, I’d thought I’m just not like the other girls. Reading ‘me vs. other girls’ comics online validated those negative feelings and stereotypes I had towards other girls, and made me feel like judging others was the ‘cool’ thing to do.”
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“I became judgmental and presumptive towards my peers, categorizing other girls into stereotypes before I even got to know them,” the artist said. “I made such a point of staying away from those stereotypes that I didn’t let myself experience things that I thought ‘other girls’ were into, including presumably girly things like going shopping, dressing up, and getting your nails done – things that I later found I actually enjoy doing!”
However, as time went by, Julie developed not only as an artist, but as a person as well. She began to realize that bitterness doesn’t lead to anything good. “Meeting more people and getting to know them helped open up my world view, especially when I attended summer camp in high school and, later, art school.”
“It was a blank slate for everyone, which presented me the option to let go of all of those categories and those stereotypes towards “other girls” that I had held onto for so long. So I did just that. What followed could only be described as an epiphany – I had been setting myself apart from the very people I felt I belonged with the most. There was so much I had in common with ‘other girls’! I made lifelong friends from a variety of backgrounds and interests who are bright, hilarious, loving, kind – girls who are unique in their own way!”
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Looking back, Julie said that social isolation really affected her. “When you’re young and still trying to figure out who you are, the one thing you really want to have is individuality. There are lots of healthy ways to discover yourself, like joining a club where you can meet people with similar interests. Then there is the ‘I’m not like other girls’ comic ideas online that communicates that you are indeed unique but does so by putting other girls down.”
However, she successfully got rid of this dangerous mindset and has a lot going for her. Having graduated from Otis College of Art & Design with a major in Animation, Julie’s now a motion designer at Part IV, a digital marketing agency. When she’s not motion-designing, she’s full of drawing ideas for future comics, design characters, do painting studies… pretty much anything you can see on her Instagram.
She also believes that the trend of relatable comics for girls is slowly changing for the better. “In recent years, I’ve felt as though webcomics are headed in a more positive and inclusive direction, with deeper meanings and consideration for their readers, and I’m more than happy to be contributing to that movement,” the artist added.
Here’s what people said about Julie’s comic and the whole “I’m not like the other girls” topic in general
How much to you cringe when a boy tells you 'you're not like other girls'. Blech!
When a guy says that what he means is "I have generally low regard for your entire gender but im willing to make an exception for you." And thats is not a fcking compliment....
Load More Replies...I tried this. I tried fitting in with other girls, but I found out they did nothing but talk about me behind my back. I was bullied for being different, for liking video games, for wearing non fashionable clothes, but graphic tees. These were all groups of girls. I was shy, but tried to fit in, but I had another girl tell me. "You will never fit in with us for liking the things you like and being who you are. Stop trying." I hung out with my small group of friends after school, but to this day I still don't fit in with other girls. But I've accepted if other girls don't like me for who I am, then I won't change their minds. Even in college it's very cliquey and I get laughed at or get weird looks from other girls for being me. But at this point I'm used to it and I'm going to continue being me even if others don't approve of it. This is who I am and I'm happy to be me. I would rather not be like other girls than be part of a group that bullies other people just for liking different things.
"I asked why. And they flat out told me it was because I was a boy wannabe in my graphic tshirts and because I played video games." This is almost word for word what I dealt with my entire life growing up as a lower middle class kid in a mostly upper middle to upper class school district. I love all things nerdy, and I was fully excommunicated for it. I was one of maybe four girls in our Robotics Club, and the same with our Anime Club. Reading your posts here was like reading my own mind.
Load More Replies...Do you really think misfits never tried to fit in before???
sometimes we do, and sometimes we fail. sometimes we don't. i'm not saying, however, that getting rejected doesn't mean you can't try again with other people. if they reject you and tell you that you can't fit in, they really don't deserve you.
Load More Replies...Yes, they see as girls liking "girly" things like makeup and fashion as somehow lesser than their own interests
Load More Replies...Oof, I had too many bad experiences with girls in big groups growing up. I'll stick with a couple close friends and call it good. When you don't wear make up and prefer loose fitting clothing you become a target for some of the girls in those big groups. Not all were that way, but definitely the vocal minority of them were. Plus with the gross way they'd talk about their "friends" that weren't there at the time, you know they're doing the same when you weren't there too. :/
Something really funny about my school is that the more sporty tomboys are popular and tease the girly girls. My best friend is quite girly and gets teased a lot. I am neither a tomboy or girly. I like listening to My Chemical Romance and reading, but the sporty girls tease us. I find it really funny because I think they to it to get male verification.
Load More Replies...i'm not like other girls. and neither is she. or her over there. or any girl. it's almost like girls are individual human beings where no two are identical regardless of what they share in common and all are deserving of respect. girlssupportgirls
Can't wait to share this with my 13yr old daughter. This is mirror image her... She always cuts herself short for fear of being judged, and it's probably only her doing the judging. Thanks for making this!
I went to a rich suburban high school where beauty and wealth were the social currencies. I was repeatedly reminded by the popular clique that I had neither, so I kept my head down, did my schoolwork and graduated. I'm sure those women are still good-looking and rich, but I like who I turned out to be, regardless, and I made good friends in college that I still have today, almost 30 years later.
Yeah. I don't know. I always try to make friends and be positive and happy, but all the "other girls" didn't want to hang out with me. They bullied me when I tried. They bullied me for even speaking to them... I didn't even wear makeup because of this 'till my mid 20's. Because I didn't want to have anything in me like these girls. Girly things = pain and I don't want to give other people pain. I want to give joy. Going to therapy, moving to a different city and starting a new independent life was what cured me. I'm almost 30 now.
I like it! In fact, I think that this «not like the other girls» thing is more a «I don't want to be a stereotype» thing... This is the proof that even when we are the group targeted by a bunch of clichés, we tend to believe it... when we realise that we are not the cliché, we continue to believe that the others are the cliché.
All girls at one time or another feel like this. We have a feeling that we don't belong. There is always someone out there who wants to be your friend and appreciates you for you. Some girls feel that they have to fit into a "girl mold" and you don't. I am a girl and one of my favorite colors is blue and I collect toy cars. However, my other favorite color is pink and I love Minnie Mouse.
i saw this one on instagram, too. beautiful message, it’s true. however hard it is to reach out, people may be just as scared as you are to say hi, and you might not realize how many similarities you may have with someone else. the artwork is amazing, to.
This should be in the hallway of every junior, middle, and high school ever.
All I could think of through this whole article is "I'm not like other girls... I have S N A K E A R M S
I'll admit, I have a bad habit of doing this. I hope to improve myself and to be less judgemental and more open-minded in the future.
I had a similar experience growing up except it ended far differently in the doctor's office at 18. I was told I was loaded with androgen hormones and had an endocrine disorder that had apparently been known to my mother since I was in early puberty (around 8) and it had been kept from me for years. I was actually, legitimately, not like other girls, and it was very freeing to not have to try to force myself to live up to those expectations anymore.
UPvoted to cancel out the downvote(s). This is a horrifying thing to experience, Kit, and I am so sorry your mother did trust you with your own medical condition.
Load More Replies...I used to be just like this growing up. Us girls are taught at a young age that we have to fit into a box to be considered a girl. And I thought I was better than that, I was rebelling by not "being like other girls". As a grown woman, I realized how stupid that was because in ordee to fight this ides of "what a girl is", we have to stick together and honestly 99% of us don't even fit into that box and we don't want to. The first time I heard a girl burp loudly in public, all my stress of not being girly went away. I had closed myself off so much that this girl's impressively sound burp was amazing and the laughing fit we fell into was just so much fun.
Some girls actually STILL feel left out and have not yet found their girl group. I am one of them. I have big parts of my life never felt like other girls. I have some problems today, but I am slowly learning that it's the company I have been looking for, which has been the wrong one. I have tried to find nerdy girls, but they are also competing against each other in getting a guy's attention and so on. So still, this post could create more sadness among these girls who STILL haven't found their group. Just like the girl in the comics, before she found her.
Love this post. I have always been kind of a loner, especially when I was a teen. I despised ''the other girls'' from my school. I didn't drink, go to parties, listen to pop music etc. But because I have had some bad experiances with a few people from one of my preschools I became quick to judge girls based on their interest, style, etc. It was until I shifted to another school I met girls who kinda reminded me of girls at my early school. But it turned out they were incredible friendly and made me feel welcome at the school. And then we shared both of our hobbies, and found out we had much more in common than we thought.
>"Hanging with normie girls who are all addicted to social media" No. Also this comic was made to discriminate against introvert people.
Exactly. This article is so far away from the truth it's actually evil. Shaming someone for doing their own thing is coercive. My family moved often when I was a child. I never "fit in" because everywhere I went, I was always the new kid. I had glasses and braces and was constantly bullied, to the point I was physically assaulted several times. I made friends with the other outcasts, which is how most misfit kids cope with being outsiders. Now here we are in 2020, and nothing has changed. The "popular" kids are grown up and STILL bashing people who are different, pretending that we're the ones who rejected them, when it was always the other way around. I stopped trying to fit in because I am not a glutton for abuse, not because I thought I was special. A pick-me-a*s-b***h finally got picked, and we're supposed to cheer at her success in making the cut. Enjoy your lunch at the mean girls' table. Conformity is in again, lucky you.
Load More Replies...As for clothing styles, I live in a community where all schoolkids wear uniforms now, which not only cuts down on fashion-based competition, but given that since the mid-to-late 1980s, kids have been murdered over $100.00+ sneakers in incidents all over the country, are pretty much a necessity.Other than that, within the context of certain rules and regulations, kids should be free to be themselves.
I have an interesting perspective on this mindset because I was the guy that hung out with these types of girls (Ironically my entire group of friends that I actually was able to hang out with on a regular basis were all girls). I was that one guy in a sense encouraged this behavior because I didn't like those girls that just loved to shop and talk about guys as the only ones I ran into were shallow in personality. As I grew up, I eventually married my wife who I thought was this same way, but being married to her I have learned that she enjoys actually quite a few of the things that I thought "marked" a girl with a shallow personality. Interests/Hobbies are separate of personality, it's a matter of if you are closed or open to others and their hobbies. Stereotypes really have some truth/backing to them, but not everyone of that stereotype is like that.
I'm not like other girls, which is why I love hanging with other girls. They keep me grounded and help with socialization. If you have suffered from severe trauma in your youth it seems easier to just keep it to yourself and get recluse, but hanging with other healthier people makes life fun and easier, once you realize they are not all coming out to get you.
We are all different. Too bad a lot of people cannot accept that.
tbh, I never care about what other people think. I've accepted that fine, other people don't like me but I'm glad I have a few very close friends. My hair is extremely curly and tangled even though I brush it a lot and other people stare at me for it but I don't care much. Of course, there is a point where you still have to take care of yourself and I try to make sure my hair looks presentable or in a ponytail for at least the majority of the day that I'm not home.
I don't have a lot of other girls around me. But that's because I am socially awkward and find it difficult to make friends and chaattt. I don't make excuses or hide under delusions though.
At my school... I stick out. Sure, I try fitting in. But honestly I can’t find anyone else liking my hobbies :(
You seriously just read my freaking mind. I completely relate to this. I was an outcast for so long, and I always blamed it on myself for being inferior, while other girls did things like talk to each other about volleyball, Instagram, shopping, boys, makeup, etc., all of which I had/ have less than zero interest in-- except boys, but I had different ways of dealing with them (read: act like I'm totally not interested, don't even think of approaching them in a non-academic way). A major part of this was knowing that I have autism, which my parents described to me as meaning that my brain was formed differently than others', so I have different strengths. This was supposed to be seen as a good thing, not just a disadvantage, but the good intentions of my parents' explanation got twisted by culture. See, in elementary and middle school, my brain was incredibly great at learning facts in English, social studies, math, and science (especially the last two), but really bad at socializing.
(Part 2) I think I knew deep down (or because my parents explicitly said) that I SHOULD feel pride in being smart. I knew I should. But I just couldn't, because I blamed the autism for making me unable to bond in any way with my classmates, who I thought were loud, annoying, shallow, and dumb. They never focused on their work and instead were super distracting, while I, the one defined as the "smart kid," buried myself in my work. That felt incredibly isolating. The fact that I got so stressed that I cried in class (yes, I, the smart kid, IN 2ND GRADE, cried in class due to extreme stress) didn't help. And that, I also blamed on autism. So until 7th grade, I had a bit of hate for "other girls", but really it was mostly self-loathing. The truth is, though my parents thought I should feel pride in my uniqueness, the conclusion I came to from years of isolation is this: I'm just meant to be an outcast, thanks to my unusual brain, but whatever, they're dumb.
Load More Replies...I can totally relate to her. Middle School is full of Viscos and Populars and and ......uuugh. People don't know me as the way I am. People actually make fun of me for my music taste, my aka "fashion", me in general. Like PEOPLE DON'T MAKE FUN OF ME BECAUSE I LIKE THE WAY I AM!!!!!!!!!!!
Spend a decade telling people they are unique and special. Now spend a decade telling them they are the same as everyone else. That's how you create communists.
I think that it’s often something boys/men say to girls/women as an intended compliment and we have internalised it. It’s just another way that I think patriarchal stuff lets us all down.
This is so awesomely true and so well stated. Everyone is unique, everyone feels like an outsider at some point in their lives.
I like that the artist put a positive spin on such a negative outlook of others.
I say "I'm not like other girls" as a joke, because i don't really know a lot of people at my school who rides a skateboard to school and listens to pop-punk and sneaks out to concerts, but i made a bunch of friends ta the skate park who listen to a lot of the same bands as me and are up for random 3am trips
Political correctness has arrived to comics. These are terrible news! Now they are telling you to fit into superficiality and gregariousness, because you know... if you don't do it it means you are judgemental and a frustrated weirdo... The social atmosphere at that age is terribly alienating, and people force themselves to fit in, basically destroying all their personal potencial, in most of the cases forever. It is way better to be a bit annoying and lonely at that age than adapting to a gregarious behavior that will condition the rest of your life. But, hey! if you don't act and think like the huge mass of people... that's because you are judgemental and a frustrated weirdo. I am very sorry for the author, who has fallen into that trap in the name of a fake well being.
How much to you cringe when a boy tells you 'you're not like other girls'. Blech!
When a guy says that what he means is "I have generally low regard for your entire gender but im willing to make an exception for you." And thats is not a fcking compliment....
Load More Replies...I tried this. I tried fitting in with other girls, but I found out they did nothing but talk about me behind my back. I was bullied for being different, for liking video games, for wearing non fashionable clothes, but graphic tees. These were all groups of girls. I was shy, but tried to fit in, but I had another girl tell me. "You will never fit in with us for liking the things you like and being who you are. Stop trying." I hung out with my small group of friends after school, but to this day I still don't fit in with other girls. But I've accepted if other girls don't like me for who I am, then I won't change their minds. Even in college it's very cliquey and I get laughed at or get weird looks from other girls for being me. But at this point I'm used to it and I'm going to continue being me even if others don't approve of it. This is who I am and I'm happy to be me. I would rather not be like other girls than be part of a group that bullies other people just for liking different things.
"I asked why. And they flat out told me it was because I was a boy wannabe in my graphic tshirts and because I played video games." This is almost word for word what I dealt with my entire life growing up as a lower middle class kid in a mostly upper middle to upper class school district. I love all things nerdy, and I was fully excommunicated for it. I was one of maybe four girls in our Robotics Club, and the same with our Anime Club. Reading your posts here was like reading my own mind.
Load More Replies...Do you really think misfits never tried to fit in before???
sometimes we do, and sometimes we fail. sometimes we don't. i'm not saying, however, that getting rejected doesn't mean you can't try again with other people. if they reject you and tell you that you can't fit in, they really don't deserve you.
Load More Replies...Yes, they see as girls liking "girly" things like makeup and fashion as somehow lesser than their own interests
Load More Replies...Oof, I had too many bad experiences with girls in big groups growing up. I'll stick with a couple close friends and call it good. When you don't wear make up and prefer loose fitting clothing you become a target for some of the girls in those big groups. Not all were that way, but definitely the vocal minority of them were. Plus with the gross way they'd talk about their "friends" that weren't there at the time, you know they're doing the same when you weren't there too. :/
Something really funny about my school is that the more sporty tomboys are popular and tease the girly girls. My best friend is quite girly and gets teased a lot. I am neither a tomboy or girly. I like listening to My Chemical Romance and reading, but the sporty girls tease us. I find it really funny because I think they to it to get male verification.
Load More Replies...i'm not like other girls. and neither is she. or her over there. or any girl. it's almost like girls are individual human beings where no two are identical regardless of what they share in common and all are deserving of respect. girlssupportgirls
Can't wait to share this with my 13yr old daughter. This is mirror image her... She always cuts herself short for fear of being judged, and it's probably only her doing the judging. Thanks for making this!
I went to a rich suburban high school where beauty and wealth were the social currencies. I was repeatedly reminded by the popular clique that I had neither, so I kept my head down, did my schoolwork and graduated. I'm sure those women are still good-looking and rich, but I like who I turned out to be, regardless, and I made good friends in college that I still have today, almost 30 years later.
Yeah. I don't know. I always try to make friends and be positive and happy, but all the "other girls" didn't want to hang out with me. They bullied me when I tried. They bullied me for even speaking to them... I didn't even wear makeup because of this 'till my mid 20's. Because I didn't want to have anything in me like these girls. Girly things = pain and I don't want to give other people pain. I want to give joy. Going to therapy, moving to a different city and starting a new independent life was what cured me. I'm almost 30 now.
I like it! In fact, I think that this «not like the other girls» thing is more a «I don't want to be a stereotype» thing... This is the proof that even when we are the group targeted by a bunch of clichés, we tend to believe it... when we realise that we are not the cliché, we continue to believe that the others are the cliché.
All girls at one time or another feel like this. We have a feeling that we don't belong. There is always someone out there who wants to be your friend and appreciates you for you. Some girls feel that they have to fit into a "girl mold" and you don't. I am a girl and one of my favorite colors is blue and I collect toy cars. However, my other favorite color is pink and I love Minnie Mouse.
i saw this one on instagram, too. beautiful message, it’s true. however hard it is to reach out, people may be just as scared as you are to say hi, and you might not realize how many similarities you may have with someone else. the artwork is amazing, to.
This should be in the hallway of every junior, middle, and high school ever.
All I could think of through this whole article is "I'm not like other girls... I have S N A K E A R M S
I'll admit, I have a bad habit of doing this. I hope to improve myself and to be less judgemental and more open-minded in the future.
I had a similar experience growing up except it ended far differently in the doctor's office at 18. I was told I was loaded with androgen hormones and had an endocrine disorder that had apparently been known to my mother since I was in early puberty (around 8) and it had been kept from me for years. I was actually, legitimately, not like other girls, and it was very freeing to not have to try to force myself to live up to those expectations anymore.
UPvoted to cancel out the downvote(s). This is a horrifying thing to experience, Kit, and I am so sorry your mother did trust you with your own medical condition.
Load More Replies...I used to be just like this growing up. Us girls are taught at a young age that we have to fit into a box to be considered a girl. And I thought I was better than that, I was rebelling by not "being like other girls". As a grown woman, I realized how stupid that was because in ordee to fight this ides of "what a girl is", we have to stick together and honestly 99% of us don't even fit into that box and we don't want to. The first time I heard a girl burp loudly in public, all my stress of not being girly went away. I had closed myself off so much that this girl's impressively sound burp was amazing and the laughing fit we fell into was just so much fun.
Some girls actually STILL feel left out and have not yet found their girl group. I am one of them. I have big parts of my life never felt like other girls. I have some problems today, but I am slowly learning that it's the company I have been looking for, which has been the wrong one. I have tried to find nerdy girls, but they are also competing against each other in getting a guy's attention and so on. So still, this post could create more sadness among these girls who STILL haven't found their group. Just like the girl in the comics, before she found her.
Love this post. I have always been kind of a loner, especially when I was a teen. I despised ''the other girls'' from my school. I didn't drink, go to parties, listen to pop music etc. But because I have had some bad experiances with a few people from one of my preschools I became quick to judge girls based on their interest, style, etc. It was until I shifted to another school I met girls who kinda reminded me of girls at my early school. But it turned out they were incredible friendly and made me feel welcome at the school. And then we shared both of our hobbies, and found out we had much more in common than we thought.
>"Hanging with normie girls who are all addicted to social media" No. Also this comic was made to discriminate against introvert people.
Exactly. This article is so far away from the truth it's actually evil. Shaming someone for doing their own thing is coercive. My family moved often when I was a child. I never "fit in" because everywhere I went, I was always the new kid. I had glasses and braces and was constantly bullied, to the point I was physically assaulted several times. I made friends with the other outcasts, which is how most misfit kids cope with being outsiders. Now here we are in 2020, and nothing has changed. The "popular" kids are grown up and STILL bashing people who are different, pretending that we're the ones who rejected them, when it was always the other way around. I stopped trying to fit in because I am not a glutton for abuse, not because I thought I was special. A pick-me-a*s-b***h finally got picked, and we're supposed to cheer at her success in making the cut. Enjoy your lunch at the mean girls' table. Conformity is in again, lucky you.
Load More Replies...As for clothing styles, I live in a community where all schoolkids wear uniforms now, which not only cuts down on fashion-based competition, but given that since the mid-to-late 1980s, kids have been murdered over $100.00+ sneakers in incidents all over the country, are pretty much a necessity.Other than that, within the context of certain rules and regulations, kids should be free to be themselves.
I have an interesting perspective on this mindset because I was the guy that hung out with these types of girls (Ironically my entire group of friends that I actually was able to hang out with on a regular basis were all girls). I was that one guy in a sense encouraged this behavior because I didn't like those girls that just loved to shop and talk about guys as the only ones I ran into were shallow in personality. As I grew up, I eventually married my wife who I thought was this same way, but being married to her I have learned that she enjoys actually quite a few of the things that I thought "marked" a girl with a shallow personality. Interests/Hobbies are separate of personality, it's a matter of if you are closed or open to others and their hobbies. Stereotypes really have some truth/backing to them, but not everyone of that stereotype is like that.
I'm not like other girls, which is why I love hanging with other girls. They keep me grounded and help with socialization. If you have suffered from severe trauma in your youth it seems easier to just keep it to yourself and get recluse, but hanging with other healthier people makes life fun and easier, once you realize they are not all coming out to get you.
We are all different. Too bad a lot of people cannot accept that.
tbh, I never care about what other people think. I've accepted that fine, other people don't like me but I'm glad I have a few very close friends. My hair is extremely curly and tangled even though I brush it a lot and other people stare at me for it but I don't care much. Of course, there is a point where you still have to take care of yourself and I try to make sure my hair looks presentable or in a ponytail for at least the majority of the day that I'm not home.
I don't have a lot of other girls around me. But that's because I am socially awkward and find it difficult to make friends and chaattt. I don't make excuses or hide under delusions though.
At my school... I stick out. Sure, I try fitting in. But honestly I can’t find anyone else liking my hobbies :(
You seriously just read my freaking mind. I completely relate to this. I was an outcast for so long, and I always blamed it on myself for being inferior, while other girls did things like talk to each other about volleyball, Instagram, shopping, boys, makeup, etc., all of which I had/ have less than zero interest in-- except boys, but I had different ways of dealing with them (read: act like I'm totally not interested, don't even think of approaching them in a non-academic way). A major part of this was knowing that I have autism, which my parents described to me as meaning that my brain was formed differently than others', so I have different strengths. This was supposed to be seen as a good thing, not just a disadvantage, but the good intentions of my parents' explanation got twisted by culture. See, in elementary and middle school, my brain was incredibly great at learning facts in English, social studies, math, and science (especially the last two), but really bad at socializing.
(Part 2) I think I knew deep down (or because my parents explicitly said) that I SHOULD feel pride in being smart. I knew I should. But I just couldn't, because I blamed the autism for making me unable to bond in any way with my classmates, who I thought were loud, annoying, shallow, and dumb. They never focused on their work and instead were super distracting, while I, the one defined as the "smart kid," buried myself in my work. That felt incredibly isolating. The fact that I got so stressed that I cried in class (yes, I, the smart kid, IN 2ND GRADE, cried in class due to extreme stress) didn't help. And that, I also blamed on autism. So until 7th grade, I had a bit of hate for "other girls", but really it was mostly self-loathing. The truth is, though my parents thought I should feel pride in my uniqueness, the conclusion I came to from years of isolation is this: I'm just meant to be an outcast, thanks to my unusual brain, but whatever, they're dumb.
Load More Replies...I can totally relate to her. Middle School is full of Viscos and Populars and and ......uuugh. People don't know me as the way I am. People actually make fun of me for my music taste, my aka "fashion", me in general. Like PEOPLE DON'T MAKE FUN OF ME BECAUSE I LIKE THE WAY I AM!!!!!!!!!!!
Spend a decade telling people they are unique and special. Now spend a decade telling them they are the same as everyone else. That's how you create communists.
I think that it’s often something boys/men say to girls/women as an intended compliment and we have internalised it. It’s just another way that I think patriarchal stuff lets us all down.
This is so awesomely true and so well stated. Everyone is unique, everyone feels like an outsider at some point in their lives.
I like that the artist put a positive spin on such a negative outlook of others.
I say "I'm not like other girls" as a joke, because i don't really know a lot of people at my school who rides a skateboard to school and listens to pop-punk and sneaks out to concerts, but i made a bunch of friends ta the skate park who listen to a lot of the same bands as me and are up for random 3am trips
Political correctness has arrived to comics. These are terrible news! Now they are telling you to fit into superficiality and gregariousness, because you know... if you don't do it it means you are judgemental and a frustrated weirdo... The social atmosphere at that age is terribly alienating, and people force themselves to fit in, basically destroying all their personal potencial, in most of the cases forever. It is way better to be a bit annoying and lonely at that age than adapting to a gregarious behavior that will condition the rest of your life. But, hey! if you don't act and think like the huge mass of people... that's because you are judgemental and a frustrated weirdo. I am very sorry for the author, who has fallen into that trap in the name of a fake well being.
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