Embrace Your Weirdness: It’s What Makes You Unique

On the things that make us different and how to fully own it

Marjorie Dadhich
3 min readAug 22, 2019
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What makes you — you? We’re all a collection of thoughts, feelings, emotions, memories, etc. But have you ever thought of yourself as weird? Perhaps like me there were times when you felt different and it didn’t feel like something to celebrate. Maybe people teased you or bullied you for being different from everyone else when you were younger? But now that you’re older, do you look at your uniqueness in another light? Either way, I’m sharing a few reasons I think it’s important to appreciate ‘the weird’ in you...

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Perhaps like the characters on Stranger Things, you’re now proud of your weirdness — and you should be! If we were all the same, life would be hopelessly boring. We’d all talk about the same stuff and it would be awful. I really don’t even want to imagine it — do you?

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Thankfully though, that’s not the case and I think we’re in an age (believe it or not) where being…

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Marjorie Dadhich

Pursuing my writing dreams here on Medium. I write mostly about Life, Psychology, and Creativity with the hope to uplift and inspire. marjoriedadhich@gmail.com