[zo1]

We're all deceiving and manipulating everyone else all the time to some degree. It's one in a million the person that behaves 100% in accordance with their internal beliefs and values, and they're quickly ostracized or marked as eccentric and to be avoided.

[Zambyte]

My experience differs from yours. A good friend of mine recently used that word to describe me, and I genuinely took it as a compliment.

I believe that as a single dude who graduated into COVID, works remotely, and moved to a new state where the only person I knew was my roommate, I believe I have a fairly exceptional social life. I met a lot of people through a local maker space. The key is just finding weird people to be weird with.

I would describe myself and many of the people I interact with as being very genuine and true to themselves.

[pimlottc]

Er, what word?

[Zambyte]

Oops, "eccentric"