What makes a person eccentric?

[MAJOR METAL]

What would you say makes a person eccentric? In part, I would say someone who is oblivious as to how their behavior is being perceived.

 

[Marial]

Wealth. Otherwise you're just weirdo.

 

[knumbskull]

I would say, *genuinely* not caring what other people think of you. It's one of those things where if you think it applies to you, it doesn't.

 

[giacomini]

that eccentric look in their eyes...

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[pie_man_25]

I would say it's about lack of knowledge of norms. I'm generally considered pretty "weird" or "eccentric" by many people I know. At first I didn't know what "normal" was, I spend a lot of time alone and such, but now I not only not know, I just don't care.

 

[Indiana Mike]

The Op said it pretty well . They have behaviors or traits that others see as odd but they don't know it or don't care.

So maybe they are normal and the observers are eccentric?

I have known or met more than a few . I honestly think I may fall into this category . People make comments to me about my behavior or they say for instance ...I'll change my last name to Barnaby for this example .

That tool is Barnaby proof.

Just Barnaby it


Or they repeat comments or actions I have made in certain situations


And so on . They say it with a smile and I've questioned it . They say no harm meant ,they like me and its just because of the way I am and do things.

I can scratch my head in certain places and make myself sneeze as much as I want . I actually enjoy it . I say it's a form of cranial masturbation . It has all the elements there,just I'm different form .

Yes ,I am weird .

maybe not eccentric but I am different.

 

[buzzbass]

the eye of the beholder. What's weird to me could be perfectly normal to someone else.

 

[MatticusMania]

ec·cen·tric
/ikˈsentrik/Adjective
(of a person or behavior) Unconventional and slightly strange: "my eccentric aunt".


Noun
A person of unconventional and slightly strange views or behavior.


Synonyms
adjective. odd - strange - quaint - peculiar - bizarre - cranky
noun. crank - original

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[Balog]

Falling outside of normally accepted social parameters, or perhaps I should say asserting a different set of social parameters as the norm. It's a matter of degrees, a little is weird, middling amount is eccentric, and lots is crazy.

 

[slobake]

Would you say being eccentric is a bad thing or a good thing?
I think not marching with the status quo without any thought about it is a good thing. But maybe that is not what we are talking about here.

 

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Society.

 

[Relic]

^ nice, very nice!

 

[Rbryant]

Seems to me that age has a huge part to play in one's eccentricity

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[blastoff99]

Tuesday!

 

[MatticusMania]

Seems to me that age has a huge part to play in one's eccentricity

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R. Bryant
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Pie has more to do with eccentricity than age, IMHO.

 

[Casting Thunder]

Wealth. Otherwise you're just weirdo.

+1

 

[zachoff]

We're all weird in one way or another. Some are just weirder than others.

I think a lot of it has to do with the environment. Some people are weird at work and not at happy hour. Some people are the opposite of that... That sort of thing. I know I'm a lot different at work than I am at home than I am at band practice than I am on the mountain than I am on the river.

 

[Bloodhammer]

Cut 'em in half and look at their rings.

 

[carlos840]

Cut 'em in half and look at their rings.

that was funny!

 

[colcifer]

Rule of thumb, the difference between weird and eccentric is that a weird person cares that their behavior is abnormal and an eccentric person doesn't.