What clique do others see you in?

you forgot "nasty pope dog". There's one sitting next to me now.

Too many people call me a raver. I'm not. I just like to dance all night and listen to hard pumping techno.

I'm not really in a set "clique". When I'm in different crowds, I act differently. Some people see me as preppy, some see me as a bookworm, some see me as a hippie, and others see me as a freak of nature (in a good way). So it's all relative to who is doing the talking.

My group of friends, aka "clique", isn't labeled as anything. We're sort of preppy, sort of dorky, and we all play sports. Does that make us the preppy, dorky, jocks?

I've left the world of cliques, but my personality is a mixture of hippie, loser, dweeb, skater, punk, jock, freak, stoner and prepper. Among other things.

Damn, not prepper. PreppY!

i'm a loner...so no clique would apply

I've been all of these at one time or another...except hillbilly...and skater

none!

*~*freak*~*

Pass the salt and preppy, please...

In high school, which is the last time I believe I was seen as part of a clique, I was an artistic/creative type.

I'm not sure people see may as in any of these cliques. Maybe geek, but that doesn't really work either. I'm my OWN damn clique! :)

Back in my day, we were called "browners", a short form of brown-nosers, I think. Apparently because we got good grades and were polite to the teachers, we were sucking up.

Depends on the "others" in question, so I picked about eight options...

wow, I would have picked geek, but not dork or dweeb, so none of these. Maybe hippie, maybe.

You know, I thought about answering what Jen answered. Basically, that cliques are for kids (Sorry about that; I couldn't help myself.) and we grownups don't do that. Then I realized that it was more the case that when you're a grownup, you're just automatically going to socialize only with a limited circle, and so the concept of "clique" simply becomes redundant. We think that there are no cliques because everyone we ever see is in the same one, or we wouldn't ever see them. (This ignores the possibility that work is your social engine, like school tends to be when you're younger. In my case, it's not, and I think the same is true of most of my friends. We may have one or two friends that we know from work, but they're just the people that we work with who happen to fit in with our preassembled social group or, if you like, our clique.)

steve: that's not my experience at all. When I factor in people I've gone to school with, people I work with, old friends, family members, guys I date, etc. it all adds up to a great big bunch of people with wildly different lifestyles, views, talents, and interests.

eb: then you are extremely fortunate, and quite outside the norm.

harassed, over-extended, working-outside-the-home wife and mother

Wow, those are some trendy cliques. Sign me up!

Jen: perhaps motorhead, but only on some Sunday's. You drive a sportier car than I do!

stoner/freak/hippie/gypsy or just plain different.

Now that I work, I really don't experience cliques, but in high school, it was a cross between nerd/dork.

No! We were all cool in college, jen.

hm... I dunno. I suspect non-nerds see me as a nerd and nerds don't. I suspect the terminally-hip see me as something of a dweeb. I dress like a slacker, but work too hard and make too much money to really be seen as one. So, none of these, I guess.

I don't know...maybe nerd but not in the true sense of the word.

I saw a hilarious bumper sticker recently. "I'm so goth, I'm dead" I thought you goths might get a chuckle out of that!

Let's talk clique fashion, shall we? I dress like a skater sometimes....but I wouldn't want to be one(I'd fall down a lot). I just like to steal their cool fashions. I just bought a bunch of khaki and military style clothing because it is relaxed and trendy. Sometimes I dress all in black and wear blue lipstick dark eyeliner and my hellacool combat boots. This scares all the other mothers at the park and I get the bench all to myself and none of them approach me and start that obnoxious mommy small talk. I own a trenchcoat...It's black. Enough said. I am a trend/fad queen. I latch on to what's hot and since that changes so rapidly...I can comfortably slip from one clique look to another without actually having to "belong" to any one group. fluid...change.....

Switching fashions is not switching cliques - black clothes alone does not a goth make - just as putting on a Nurses uniform doesn't make you a Nurse. On the other hand I guess fashion is a large part of what non-members use to label people into cliques.

supplicant
I didn't say switching fashions was switching cliques...
I didn't say that wearing those fashions made me a member of the clique
I said....
I can comfortably slip from one clique "look" to another without actually having to "belong" to any one group.

The ever-fluid, ever-changing mandy...what will she be next? Never a dull moment!

Hmmm... for some reason every time I read your sentence I just skipped over the word 'look' - when you 'bold'ed it in the quote I thought 'that wasn't there, I just read it' - then I re-read the sentence yet again... um... oops :) *goes red faced* sorry :) Bit of a brain-fart I guess ;)

no problem......;)

well I see I'm in good company. Nerds 22, freaks 19 and hippies 11. I guess that's why we are all drawn to Bill's site. A wise person will not judge himself or herself. However since I am not wise and still have an ego I will judge myself. Often I am told 'Michael you are unusually different'. Just ask Bill, he has told me that, but in not so many words, only his actions.