Label me if you need too, I am only who I am

As far back as I can remember, there has always been the few people who for what ever reason could not fit in nor belong to a group. They themselves talked about or did things differently, from clothing to socializing they are just different. Even books like the Outsiders glamorized the idea of anti-social behaviors. I could not count the amount of movies stories or plays that the theme of genius and different social behaviors reaches the top ten lists of stories you have to read or movie you have to see.

 

Labeling these individuals is our cultures way to justify the unease in which we try to accept them.

 

When I was a child ADD and Bi-polar were not around, nor was the need to medicate a 10^th of the population. I find it hard to believe that some genetic core changed in fifty years that so many are labeled as such. I am sure there are those that need assistance, and truly have thought and behavior issues, I think these are the most over used social help labeling.

 

Now days it is almost a fad to claim to be different, unique yet odd. I know honestly that I use mine as an advertising ploy in my own marketing, not that I would ever claim to be either a genius or mad, but that the cookie cutter that made me was broken. Thus it is okay to be me.

 

Label me if you need too, I am only who I am.