Eccentric?

[mancroft]

Has anyone ever called you "eccentric" to your face?

[Dr. Haight]

More times than I could possibly count.

Although, being called "weirdo" would top that by ten-fold.

[attila_the_hunny]

I get called "crazy" all the time.

[geniusndisguise]

I don't think so but I work with a guy who constantly says to me "No one thinks like you!" What he means is I'm wrong and wierd. He's an ESFP.

[Ghost-Girl]

Regularly.

[Ferrus]

Many a time. Idiosyncratic by the more intellectually minded.

[intpgolfer]

Unusual or odd, but not eccentric?

[Hustler]

I don't think anyone has called me eccentric to my face, but one person did call me "the living enigma" once.

[mancroft]

"the living enigma"

I like it.

I'll use that myself!

[Notsweetynice]

I've been called 'eccentric' and 'normal', lol.

[Oculus Sinister]

"Eccentic", "weirder than star trek" tops the list though

[Trystorp]

Eccentric, quirky, strange, odd, standoffish - the gamut.

[MasterMerk]

we are all the same

[C.J.Woolf]

Probably, but I couldn't tell you or when because I know I'm eccentric and saying it to me wouldn't make much of an impression.

A high school acquaintance once called me quirky. That stuck in my memory. (I think it was "quirky but nice.") She was eccentric herself, by the way.

[int]

Everything but eccentric. And "comforting."

[dunee]

Roomate tells me I am "weird" on a weekly basis, because I apparently am "not told so by others often enough." It also seems to be her mission to show others how strange I am. Yesterday she showed some guests the stash of cereal boxes and plastic milk jugs I am saving to wear as an anonymous "recycled box costume" across campus in the near future.

I don't get it because she is pretty darn weird herself, at least according to social conventions. Maybe its because I give less of a darn about such social conventions, and she is more likely to worry/think about them? Oh well. Now on the other hand, my best friend is just as strange as I am, but she, like me, does not worry overly much about it!

[C.J.Woolf]

I don't get it because she is pretty darn weird herself, at least according to social conventions. Maybe its because I give less of a darn about such social conventions, and she is more likely to worry/think about them? Oh well. Now on the other hand, my best friend is just as strange as I am, but she, like me, does not worry overly much about it!
That is precisely why you are stranger than she is. It's better that way.

By the way, I love your mini-traffic cone earring idea.

[outmywindow]

we are all the same

Yup. I get eccentric quite a bit, even in writing sometimes, apparently as documentation for future generations.

I had a teacher in high school tell me once in front of the whole class that she really wished she could get "inside that head of [mine]" because I was so strange and interesting. I grinned and assured her that she would, in fact, probably not like it inside my head at all.

[NightCrawler]

Odd, weird, crazy, random, insane, "your mom's side of the family", and a bunch of others. But rarely eccentric. I am usually not around people with a big enough vocab' for that.

[Ghost-Girl]

I've just remembered, occasionally i'm an "odd duck".



A high school acquaintance once called me quirky. That stuck in my memory. (I think it was "quirky but nice.") She was eccentric herself, by the way.

I've gotten that one too. "quirky but nice" sounds like she was mentioning quirky as a bad trait, and then qualifying it by saying you're nice as well.

Is being quirky, eccentric, odd, etc. a bad thing? I never considered it so.

"There is a sobering side to eccentricity. Odd behavior can flourish only in a tolerant society and that it often produces radical new ideas by virtue of its willingness to cast off accepted norms. Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light. " - (it's been attributed to a few different people)

[kuranes]

The old joke was that you had to have money to be "eccentric". Otherwise you were just "crazy". I've been called both. The other day I was called "peculiar" for the first time. :)

[PonderBee]

I've been told "You're different than most people"; and "You're so unconventional". Mostly I get either a sideward glance away from me, the slow nod with a raised brow, or the look that lies somewhere between confusion & surrender.

[Avengardh]

"A fucking mystery".

Still the best.

[outmywindow]

My mom used to joke that she had been abducted by aliens while pregnant with me, and that my eccentricities were the result of the various experiments they must have done on her while I was in utero. Worked for me.

Then we joked that my brain tumor was a vestige of the alien tinkering and the source of all my oddities. Apparently, once it was removed I was supposed to turn into a moronic social butterfly (my true self?)! Luckily, that wasn't the case. :)

[Rhu]

Apparently I'm eccentric even among you weirdos. (http://forums.intpcentral.com/showpost.php?p=231591&postcount=255)

I'm pretty sure that this actually makes me completely normal.

[2hype]

I don't think so. I get "different" and "interesting" often.

[abweichend]

I've never been called eccentric, but "weirdo" and "crazy" seem to be my two names to my best friend. I was once called an enigma by an ESFJ when she was upset with me, but I don't think that it had the same connotation.

[hereandnow]

Odd, peculiar and eccentric. In college a professor referred to me as the "tall, eccentirc fellow."

[Prothero]

I accept that it's true, but so few people know enough about my personal life to use that word. They freely use a variety of other words and phrases, basically with the same meaning, or worse.

Recently one person did tell others that I was the only person he's ever been afraid of, but I have no idea why he should be.

[SolitaryWalker]

For all those INTPs who voted no on that poll, nevermind answering the question of whether anybody called you eccentric or not, but do you really think that this characteristic does not apply to you?

[Llewellyn]

More often called normal than strange.

Or it would be "You're really..." (and then it is left open). E.g. when I look quietly at the books on the shelves at a company meeting.

But there is always something...

Yeah, also been said to make people quiet (in a positive way), like someone about said in this thread.

Edit: now I get a sense (new insight, new Ne data ;) ) that people just don't believe I am like this.

[ryan_m_parr]

I've never been called eccentric other than calling myself that, however it has certainly been implied that I am different.

[iksikaksi]

Ive been called all of the following... quirky, odd, eccentric, strange, and weird.

However when i was in highschool I got the most original student award. Apparantly they considered me stranger than some other students who would go to school with ridiculous clothes and talk about things that were highly inappropriate with the current social norms. Im still scratching my head till this day.

[skip]

I get "quirky" and "whimsical" sometimes, too. True eccentrics are rare.

[Llewellyn]

For all those INTPs who voted no on that poll, nevermind answering the question of whether anybody called you eccentric or not, but do you really think that this characteristic does not apply to you?

The thread http://forums.intpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=32121 ("Are all INTPs geeks?") made me remember I was called "Just not normal" (meaning: slightly unnormal) once at work, supposedly when I wasn't captivated by a plane flying by.

Also when I diclosed my idea we should actually live in an ideal world, my father said I was 'actually a little special'.

So, to your question, I guess the characteristic does apply to me to some extent under a veil of normality. It is mostly confined to how I think, but also in my posture, and probably to some ways I act in.

I would never attribute this characteristic to myself, but I am often fascinated by it (e.g. in others).

[kali]

Once, by my friend's boyfriend - entj. Arty and eccentric, he said. My infp friend has outrightly said, "you're fucking weird, that's why I'm friends with you."

[vSv]

More often concentric than eccentric.

[C-StoLibFro]

My infp friend has outrightly said, "you're fucking weird, that's why I'm friends with you."

Hahaha... I have been told that a few times by friends. Eccentric, weird, different, interesting, an enigma, strange, difficult... words I am called often.

[working title]

I don't think you can be an INTP out and about the world for at least a couple of hours a day and not ever be called eccentric, or a similar adjective.
Silly topic.