An Essay On What Does It Mean To Be Different

My entire life, I’ve known that there was something a little different about me. The way that my classmates interacted with each other was always strange to me. Valentine’s Day didn’t make sense and watching Disney movies where the princess always gets her prince just didn’t feel right. I tried to think like my male classmates and feign feelings for girls. It was not until middle school when I finally began to understand exactly why I was so different. I’m gay. And this scared me.

People are often told to be themselves as a way of embracing their uniqueness. This seems to not be true since conformity and lack of individualism is a big issue with society. The issue of what led Christopher McCandless, main character from Into the Wild by John Krakauer, to go on a search to find himself. In the author’s note of the novel, Krakauer introduces the term ‘schools of thought’. In the case of this book, there are two; one being that some people said it was a suicide mission and the other being that others disagreed saying he was ambitious. The story demonstrates one man’s attempt to define a lifestyle and find meaning in his life that came from something outside materialistic and civilized contemporary

These had cause me to be cold toward men. I also grow up in a straight community where being different is a taboo and it is often not appreciated by the society. I remember a short dark skin man with a low income who used to live in the same neighborhood as my grandmother, he is gay, many people laughed at him but the way he dress, talks and walks. As a future teacher have to ask me what I will do if a boy come to class wearing a dress, I know many kids are going to laugh and call him names, others are going to bullying him. As the adult I'm going to need to do something to stop it and to help every kid in the class that everyone not feel constable dressing or acting like the society wants. Growing up I don't believe that my parents would had let me be friends with gays and lesbian, they might though it would had influence me in my sexual orientation. Today I have friend that are gay. That have been a challenge to me because of what a was tough. It does not shock me any more like it did when I first came to the U.S. and found out that some of my friend did not felt comfortable being male or

As a nine-year-old girl I knew I was not “normal”. I didn’t like boys the way my friends did and I would always push my thoughts about girls away because it was “wrong”. At fourteen I started to come to terms with who I was. The thought of being a lesbian in high school petrified me. I thought I would never be able to openly be myself, I would lose friends and everyone would see me differently. The thought of finding love never crossed my mind because I never knew how I would tell a complete stranger that I was a lesbian. My family was extremely supportive after the initial

Through out my child hood I was referred to as “that girl boy” or a tom-boy. I thought I was just another little boy but it turned out I wasn't. I never knew what was wrong with me until I started to get older and learned terms to identify a person's sexuality and gender.

When I was young I knew I was different, because I felt no attraction to the opposite gender.I felt like I knew this, because whenever a girl gave me something affectionate I would feel emptiness. I know being gay goes against my religion and the way we are supposed to be as people, but people don't know how I feel except me.People who are hateful especially at school don't know how much I have suffered my whole life.I have struggled hiding who I am and still continue to suffer, because people are so ignorant including my family.I know one day I will find the right path, I just need to be patient.This goes to show how too much conformity can be bad used in hatred.Conformity can be good in this case if you accept yourself

Being different isn't a bad thing at all; it's a great thing. People around the world are judged everyday of their lives for their sexuality. If you are different it's great that you are in my opinion. You shouldn't be judged for being different. It's not wrong for someone to be different what's wrong with it? nothing.

What does the word ‘different’ mean? In a world full of trends and copycats, what does it really mean to be different? Alternatively, what do we really consider as ‘normal’? Are you considered normal? Or you? Or maybe you? And after a few rounds of this finger pointing game, we realise that we will never know what ‘normal’ is. So in this case normal is merely a figment of societal perceptions and restrains.

I really am ashamed at how the world has not gotten used to same sex couples since it has been around for ages. These are the same people that wants us all to be equal. It’s funny because we cannot be equal if we all aren’t treated the same. For society to really change the people in it have to change their perspective of things. As a lesbian I am looked down on because I don’t like dudes how I like females. My affection for females goes deeper than my affection towards males because I only see males as friends, “brothers”, and acquaintances. As I was growing up I was told to express myself or be different and not follow the crowd. I kind of knew I liked females at a young age just for the simple fact I would always kiss a female and look at a male strangely. My family would always ask me do I have a boyfriend and I would be afraid to say no I like females. I didn’t know how they would feel about that. It would be awkward for me to watch a movie with my mother and she points out a male that is sexy to her and I would be saying ugh that’s nasty. I came out in high school and when I did I felt like a disappointment to my

Nohemi Perea Task2/LCT1 8/01/2012 An individual labeled as the Other is different and does not fit in. The Other is “perceived as lacking essential characteristics possessed by the group, the Other is almost always seen as lesser or inferior being and is treated accordingly” (The Other, 2009). A group sets guidelines and if a person does not meet them they will not be accepted as “normal”. Otherness to a group represents awkwardness. Although each person does have its own unique characteristics to prevent from being labeled as the Other you must possess common characteristics within a group. I read “This Is What It Means To Say Phoenix, Arizona” written by Sherman Alexie. It is about a boy named Victor who lives on an Indian Reservation

Mehmet Murat Ildan stated that “When you are something different, you are either blessed or cursed!” Ildan is absolutely incorrect. When one is different either by race or disability, they are viewed in a different light than normal people, but that does not decide if one is blessed of cursed. It is how others perceive them to be and how they see themselves.

“Compromise, communication and consistency are needed in all relationships not just romantic ones.” (Elle). When communicating we always find a way to make connections with one another and communicating with individuals that have special needs can be overwhelming and exciting at the same time. Most people wouldn’t believe how easy it is to communicate with them and all it takes is a little patience, time, and consideration. In my paper I will talk about how important it is in how we communicate with them and how connecting with them will influence them and us as individuals.

Being different has never occurred to me before. I believed that since everyone is human, we are all connected, that we should not be judged based on what we look like. I was wrong.

A poet named Audre Lorde, once said, “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” (Lorde,) Such true words with a major need to be spoken. Discrimination, the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things. Which has become an excuse for some, and a blindfold for many. Who ever thought that the great land of the free would stilled be doomed by this curse called discrimination. When people feel as though it is acceptable to judge a person on their differences. Thus, out of all the subjects that people choose to discriminate against, one that displays the most immaturity lays in the discrimination of one’s tongue. [Place My Thesis].

I am different from those who surround me. I am a creature that cannot survive without drinking blood and could live for many centuries. Many people call my species different names such as Aswangs (the Philippines), Upyrs (Russia), Dakhanavars (Armenia), or how Americans call us- Vampires. Our appearances are not that different from humans. However, we have an accent that can be quite distinguishable.