Hi Meredith, and thank you for joining in the discussion. You are not like anyone else! You are a unique and multi-talented woman! (I don’t know what way-tres means.) I too was considered “weird” (and I was) but being weird was not a deterrent to them choosing me. I did care how I was perceived. However, it did cause me to be attracted to weirdos more than being attracted to those perceived as normal. Of course I’d be attracted to weirdos: that’s what I experienced in my own family. However, in my mature years, I have learned that I am neither weird nor normal; I am, as you say, loving and fully functional, and that is good enough for me. I think it’s good to question the concept of normal. Someone, somewhere, sometime in society determined what is normal according to their standards.