What other ways are you different? Besides the chicken thing :)

[BJ]

Ummm....

I ate a chocolate covered cricket!!

 

[PotterWatch]

I don't think my family is odd at all but I know others don't agree, lol. We are an (almost) unschooling family with both parents at home. My boys and I are Jews (and let me tell you, being a homeschooler in the Reform Jewish community is really, really rare), but we also have a strong Scots/Irish history. My husband doesn't practice any specific religion, though he does participate with us to a certain extent. As a family our greatest ambition is to move to northern Washington and operate a mostly self-sufficient farm raising chickens and meat goats. Not too off the beaten path.

 

[BirdBoy88]

I have a very bad addiction to fishing

I also.... Paint - Draw - Write -Sing -Play piano

did i mention i have an addiction to fishing?

i collect all types of bird eggs ..you know take the yolk out and save the shell.

i also collect animal bones and whatever i find in the woods i want..lol

i find and save old bird nests i find in the woods or bee hives

i also save feathers i find anywhere

i collect animal books an other books but mostly animal books..

i LOVE!! the color Blue

everything in my room is blue if not has blue in it

i save alot of old things from when i was a small kid.. but who doesn't..lol

ummm thats it i think?

 

[ailsaek]

Ah, I'm not the only Jewish person on here after all. Cool.

I don't have a lot of trouble with the "how am I different?" question. As a child, i used to wonder if I was even the same species as all the other people I knew. The things they cared about seemed so strange. Being secretly from another planet or dimension would have explained everything. I definitely never identified with being a girl. Not that I thought I was a boy either, but being ladylike and caring about clothes and jewelry and makeup and who is dating whom and figuring out what are the right things to wear and do to fit in with the others were never things that meant anything to me. The thing that finally gave me something to connect with other women over was motherhood, and even there I'm very much the outsider in any group of women that meets in person rather than online.

I was reading science fiction and fantasy since before I even knew it was a separate genre. I had to be dragged nearly kicking and screaming into the adult section of the library because I was sure that books for adults were all boring stuff with romance and sex in it and I wanted no part of it. I wanted to attend science fiction conventions since I knew they existed (they were my vision of paradise) but didn't actually make it to one until I was in my 30s.

I was raised high church Episcopalian in rural Maine (village outside of Lewiston/Auburn) and went through a number of religious phases before discovering and converting to Judaism. I was a Dianic priestess while I was at UMaine.

I started playing Dungeons and Dragons in 1979, and I still identify as a D&Der even though I haven't played a game in years. I think of myself as more of a ref than a player, though. Most refs' stories are too simplistic, with too much fighting and too little plot. I got into video game RPGs over a decade ago as a substitute for tabletop gaming as I couldn't find a gaming group, and for a while I could truthfully say I had played every RPG out there.

I moved from Maine to the Boston area in hopes of finding people like me. What I've learned in the sixteen years I've been down here is that there are no "people like me," there are just people. It's up to me to find connections and build bridges. If I am willing to set aside my prejudices and listen, I can find something that I have in common with anyone, and if I'm feeling prickly and defensive, I can find a thousand things that make any given person different from me.

Oh yeah, and I'm a firm believer in peak oil, living sustainably, and being as self-sufficient as possible. I'm also a SAHM and utterly refuse ever to enter a cubicle again.

 

[robinaggie]

Wow - I make the third Jew on this page!

I don't know how I'm different (wish I did),

I just know that I've been called "weird" my whole life. Now with the chicken thing - people think I have gone over the edge. I kinda like it that way.

 

[chicamama]

Work in the Hollywood scene.
Writer.
Knitter.
Hippie/granola mama to first child at 38.
Married 20 years.

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

Boy, I am so excited by this thread and the incredible array of amazing people here! I actually, feel like my oddness makes sense here!

I am a non-classed person and as such am frequently displaced. (Has anybody read Blue Collar Roots, White Collar Dreams?) I am over educated for my roots, too liberal now, not Christian any more etc...

And I don't fit in where I am now. I didn't grow up with money, I didn't go to the "right" schools. No, I don't know Bunny from back at the country club......

But, now my overeducated friends really don't get my choice to move out to the "country" and stay home (mostly - less now that they are older) and raise children and crops and work in the dirt!

The people here, in what used to be rural, but now is a McMansion suburb, don't understand why we don't hire people to do this stuff. We don't have the money! Staying home meant huge financial sacrifices and major life choice decisions and I don't regret it one bit!

So, I'm a liberal adjunct college professor, who reads way too much sci/fi, who lives very simply; who is a neo-pagan and believes organized religion is an oxymoron. Who loves my students, loves my kids and my husband, and believes it is my duty on the planet to improve it by my existence. I fail at this every day, but I keep trying to be a good being, to do good, to live lightly on the earth and deeply in the hearts of my family.

And I am happy to be here, thank you for welcoming me!

 

[sundance]

My Dh andI were both 16 when we married, every one was taking bets on how long it would last. will be 55 years in Aug. Have 4 great kids, 2 boys and 2 girls, 14 GC and I think 15 GGC. He is native American, I am Irish, We are both Christians, and active in our church, love my family, dogs and chickens, so guess i am as NORMAL as anybody else in the good old USA.

 

[menageriemama]

I have WHAT in my yard? :

Boy, I am so excited by this thread and the incredible array of amazing people here! I actually, feel like my oddness makes sense here!

I am a non-classed person and as such am frequently displaced. (Has anybody read Blue Collar Roots, White Collar Dreams?) I am over educated for my roots, too liberal now, not Christian any more etc...

And I don't fit in where I am now. I didn't grow up with money, I didn't go to the "right" schools. No, I don't know Bunny from back at the country club......

But, now my overeducated friends really don't get my choice to move out to the "country" and stay home (mostly - less now that they are older) and raise children and crops and work in the dirt!

The people here, in what used to be rural, but now is a McMansion suburb, don't understand why we don't hire people to do this stuff. We don't have the money! Staying home meant huge financial sacrifices and major life choice decisions and I don't regret it one bit!

So, I'm a liberal adjunct college professor, who reads way too much sci/fi, who lives very simply; who is a neo-pagan and believes organized religion is an oxymoron. Who loves my students, loves my kids and my husband, and believes it is my duty on the planet to improve it by my existence. I fail at this every day, but I keep trying to be a good being, to do good, to live lightly on the earth and deeply in the hearts of my family.

And I am happy to be here, thank you for welcoming me!

I know what you mean about being non-classed and often displaced!! Welcome!!!​

 

[gypsy2621]

whats different or odd about me?

I am an earth person, ok pagan... wear my beliefs on my hand, heavily tattooed as some found out this weekend past.
I have snakes lizards, 3 turtles, a Rose Hair Tarantula and Goliath Trantula * Bird Eating Spider* Grass Keets, and Canarys along with my Chickens doves and pigeons.
I raise and Show Rabbits of the Rare and Endangered Breeds.
I am 50 years old , ex Biker B**.
Brought up one Daughter and now raising her oldest Daughter who is Diabetic and has to have special diet.

I am married to a nut case who believes and enjoys much of the same things I do for 15 years now.

I am a firm believer of paranormal happenings and have had more experiences than I can count.
Scared more than a few people telling them things I couldnt/shouldnt know.

I raise Orchids and may other tropical plants, so far been too greedy to sell any.

I belong to the Mass Avicultural Society. and enjoy their swaps which reminds me I have to find out whenthe one in sept is and post it on the chicken swap post. If you join you are allowed to sell your Birds.
I think thats about the weird of me, Oh I nearly forgot my best friend Lily is as nutty about chickens and rabbits as I am lol.