I find this question hard. What do you think?

Personally to me I think it's being yourself. You hear the media saying that you have to be a certain sterotype or a certain person or you won't be accept. Society has a main impact on people these days. There are labels, judgemental people and people that push people down into the ground because of their background, their likings and their sense of living.

I am myself. I have been labeled and I tend to label myself. This topic is very deep to me because I see people get bashed for being theirselves. I see it all the time. People are changing to just fit in with a group or to be liked. Some kids even take it extremely far to the point of hurting theirself or people around them. To stealing, doing drugs, smoking and drinking. The rates are extremely high in this generation.

Don't be afraid to stand out. Haters make you famous. Not everyone is going to love you for who you are. So many people talk about me that it's not even funny. But I came to understanding that those people are lacking something that I don't. People that talk about me don't affect my life. I affect theirs. I love how people say I am an attention whore. I agree. I love seeing people talk about me even if it's negative. Because if you can take your time to bash me then I'm doing something right. I love how people say that they don't care about you but have time to tell you that. They can't overlook you. They feed off of you.

I love gay people. I look up to them highly. To come out and tell the world that they love the same sex is amazing. I love cross dressers because if they are happy doing that then I'm happy. I love everyone even my haters. I don't think you will ever meet someone like me. If someone comes up to me and says, " Go kill yourself." I won't freak out and say the same thing. I would problaby smile and say thanks. That's me. Whatever, I love showing people that I don't care. When you find yourself don't change. Stay true to yourself. Self love yourself.

So, spill your guts. What are your views?

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I completely agree with you.
I find it so much harder being myself, because there are so many different parts to me.
It's a fact that we are who we are because of our environment, well partly. Which means we always take different parts from other people subconsciously
I find it hard to work out who I actually am and which traits are mine and which are someone elses.
It's easy to mimic someone else, anyone can do it, but it's so much harder finding your real personality under everything else.

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I agree with you. Before i use to act all shy and try not to act like myself because i was scared of what people would think. But, then after people started saying stuff about me, i thought fuck it, and i just started to be myself.

Some people tell me i'm weird or a freak, and i get called a goth loads and stuff, but i really couldn't careless, say what you want about me and i'll turn around and just laugh and agree with you just to piss you off. I get people looking at me, and even had people throwing stuff at me, and i just smiled back and even gave them stuff to do it with, i know its extreme but its the way i am, and if people are going to take the piss and what not, then i'll encourge it because it doesnt bother me at all, and if people are talking to me, like you said, you gotta be doing something right so that people would even bother mentioning you, if its negative or not. And, being a lesbian as well, i got asked loads of stuff at school about it, but i answered it and i just laughed it off. People even laughed at me, but i just laughed as well. Being yourself and not caring what others think is really the best way to be, because then you don't have to pretend to be someone just to please people or to fit in, which i just think is stupid.

So, thats my two cent.

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I think being someone else is hard for me, but as teenagers, we don't really know what being ourselves is yet. Ive come alot closer to knowing but I still dont know. I couldnt dress in something i didnt feel comfortable in just so I could be someone else, and I couldn't easily talk differently, or act differently for the same goal. Im still figuring out what ME is but i do know what ME isnt.

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Yes I do! (no I dont)

I'm a pretty good liar, bluff, and cheat so being what I think I need to be in whatever situation I'm in is pretty damn easy.

But as to who I am? Couldn't tell you.

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I'm exactly the same Curtis. I just seem to lie or bluff my way through life.
Hence why I could never tell anyone what I'm like..I don't know.

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i fink bein urself is harder coz i always fear not bein accepted

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I'll just have to find out for myself, hm?

Don't say no. You like it. :]

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I love it. :]

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Pretty much the best answer ever.

Made me grin like a fool.

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As opposed to grinning like a what?

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its hard for me to be someone else. my family are religious freaks, and its hard to be yourself around someone who will judge you based on how you act or speak. i cant be myself around my family.

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Like some sly cat you want to get into bed with.

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I'm not into all that..Sleeping with animals.

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I think it is a lot harder to be me than to be someone else...ya see I have been acting (in theatre) for a very long time...after a while I just would slip into a character that was similar to me that the person I was with would like. I was so desperate to have excpetence I would change to fit what the other person expected of me...as I have grown and changed I have started to realize that I do not want to live my life like that. I am now very outspoken and I am trying more and more to be myself, if they don't like it...well then i don't give a damn.

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I would never want to belong to a club that would have someone like me for a member!
-Woody Allen (originally by Groucho Marx)
(I'm on the far right in my pics)