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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I feel you about the lack of real weird around here!  I remember joining a hobby that I very much enjoyed and making friends (I have some normal friends -- I'm very very good at pretending to be normal) who kept talking about how this hobby was full of wonderful people who let them really embrace because weird and unusual and how it was so nice and welcoming... when they were all people I would absolutely classify as "normal."  I miss being the comparatively normal one sometimes, honestly.  I'm planning to move soon and I really hope my new area has some genuine nutters (affectionate).[/quote]

YES. I had an off-beat hobby for a while thinking it would help me find people who are a little more off-beat like I am. Instead it was full of lawyers, consultants, and other professionals who turned the hobby into just another thing to be ultra-competitive and intense about. I still always felt like the "weird one" because I didn't work for some big name firm or company, I had not recently bought a condo or SFH in a nice neighborhood, and I didn't take regular vacations to the Caribbean, skiing out west, or European capitals. They were all super conformist and it was like this one off-beat hobby was another way of conforming -- I'm a corporate lawyer but in my free time I box/roller derby/circus/pole dance/etc.

People in DC work very hard to meet the expectations other people set for them, even when doing things considered "alternative" or "indie", and if you truly walk to the beat of your own drum, it's hard to find kindred spirits here.[/quote]

PP back (I am not going to engage with some of the other PPs).  Have you read Bimbos of the Death Sun?  It's a 70s/80s murder mystery at science fiction convention, and there's a part where one character talks about how she got into con life because she had to work so hard to "be a person" and I remember relating to that like crazy when I first read it as a teen.  In DC, there are weird people but it can be really hard to find them.  Before the pandemic, I used to go to Shakespeare in the Pub a lot, but I don't think they've restarted again.  :-(  I also maintain a lot of internet friendships that mean the world to me.  Wishing you all the best![/quote]

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