"You don't act your race/age/etc etc."

You're entitled to your opinion.

Anyway, I'd like to know what is enough still.

Why do you want me to answer for someone else's stereotypes? I don't know you and I don't care about you.

But while we're at it, tell me how I'm wrong. Or is your group of friends both online and off an oasis of unique in a sea of conformity? How can it be that so many people tell you how they defy stereotypes, yet you think this is important somehow?

Because I want to know why people think this way.

If you're not asking me directly, why did you ask me directly?

I'm constantly accused of not acting like a proper nerd, who sits online all day long waiting for someone to stroke my ego or whine when they don't. Too bad Miyomi can't say the same.

Like hell you are. Nowadays, the proper nerd browses 4chan while waiting for ego-stroking. The hypernerds of the future are here today.

Miyomi. Stop acting like a child and closing the thread because you don't like where the conversation is going. Un-doing moderator action is grounds for a warning, so consider this one.

Originally Posted by Visavi

People still say that I look about three or four years younger than I am. I am normally the oldest person in a group of friends, but I'm the one that either has their ID checked, or if everyone has their ID checked, I'm the only one they ever do a triple-take on. If I were to wear my hair in a ponytail, people would swear that I was 14.

Since most of my friends were too busy getting high, laid, and/or paid during high school, I like to act like a high school student whenever I hang out with friends now. It annoys them since they want to be all "I'm college so let's sit around and critique Bach and Amadeus while sipping steaming hot latte's" while I'm all "Let's go out and drive around and watch movies and eat out and throw condom balloons at the President's car! EEEEEEEEEE!" Ok, maybe not the last part, but it would be fun.

lol someone who shares my pain :P I swear, going into clubs and bars... they ask immediately, "ID please" =_=" while my friends go in without a hitch... not to mention one of them is underage lol... but anyways...

well why not just keep acting young? :P It's more fun to act like that sometimes... I mean, my mates don't really give a shit sometimes, and we act so immature but it's all bloody fun with them :lolsign:

Originally Posted by High_Seraphim

well why not just keep acting young? :P It's more fun to act like that sometimes... I mean, my mates don't really give a shit sometimes, and we act so immature but it's all bloody fun with them :lolsign:

I love looking and acting young b/c I know that while they're worried about putting on make-up and getting tans I'll sit back and think, "Just wait until we're all 40 and I still look 30". I like to act young, but most of my female friends (when I can pry them away from their boyfriends) sort of sneer because they want to act all grown up. So what if I like cartoons and driving to the nearest soda fountain rather than getting pedicures and talking about what someone was wearing on a cover of Vogue.

People expect others to act like a stereotype for a very simple reason. The majority of the general public are pretty much mindless sheep who can't think for themself. They can't grasp that concept let alone the fact that someone else doesn't fit into that category and wants to better themself.

If I was black and other black people yelled at me for not using Ghetto talk, I'd tell them to enjoy working at McDonald's for the rest of their life while I actually try to move up in the world.

And for the people who say that people think they're younger then they are, you should be happy. For the most part being younger = being better looking. It's alot better then the otherway around. I was incredibly insulted when I as 22 and a girl thought I was in my 30s...

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People expect others to act like a stereotype for a very simple reason. The majority of the general public are pretty much mindless sheep who can't think for themself.

Do these two sentences look right to you?

Originally Posted by DarkMageOzzie

And for the people who say that people think they're younger then they are, you should be happy. For the most part being younger = being better looking. It's alot better then the otherway around. I was incredibly insulted when I as 22 and a girl thought I was in my 30s...

I am glad for it, but the only people that think I'm better looking are on-line. The guys in my region of the U.S. go for women that look older than they really are (stupid media).

Actually, something worse than not acting the age/race/etc. is when you do act it to see if people notice, they ignore you. Then, when you go back to being yourself, they ask you why you never even try to act that way. It mostly comes up with me when I have to get dressed up and look like some of the girls on the cover of Premiere or Vogue or something (like when I wrote an article on the college equivalent of prom). I'll dress up for a special presentation or something and no one will notice. Then, when I go back to my jeans and T-shirt, everyone begins to complain about why I never dress like a girl.