I agree with a number of stuff you`ve said her :)

This is excellent. You have some real talent!

You made a good point here, but there's no need to make fun of people while you're at it. You've expressed that you have a different taste and that you are your own person (I can relate to you) , but next time, maybe do it in a way that isn't necessarily hurtful to others. Good article, though.

I really liked the artical and totally agree. Like you I am different then the 'raverge teenager' and perfectly happy with that.

I agree with what you're saying, but I don't like the way you make fun of people in that article. Maybe they wear makeup because they have some horrible scarr on their face that they don't want anyone to see. Maybe they buy 50 dollars ripped jeans, because they like the style and that they can afford it and maybe they like watching sappy love movies because they like happy endings, maybe they like listening to music other than abba n M.J. because they're not really into that soul and hippie style, and maybe they're anorexic because people keep on teasing them about their weight. You never know why people do stuff, so don't sit there and be all high and mighty. I'm glad that you perfer older styles, music, and movies and stuff, i enjoy that stuff too, but don't make fun of people. Plain & Simple just like the old days.

Well, I do like it, but I don't put on my make-up to try to make myself something different. In fact, just the opposite. I wear make-up to show off my natural beauty, but I am not like those girls who put huge amounts on. I do that only for outtings such as dances or movies.

I love the ending and your unique style of writing!  Keep it up!

Oh, I adore ABBA. My mom played a lot of old songs in the car when I was little, so my iPod is kind of a mess of old and new thrown together.

Anyway, don't assume they're all the same. They're probably not.l

Funny and deep piece, shows who you are. I can't say I'm like you but I have no problem with people who don't wear make up or anything like that. It's admirable that you can like yourself as you are and I hope you're going to continue being whoever you want to be not who you're opressed into being :)

I love your article! Nice voice, good usage of words to bring out your opinion...great overall!

It is good to be different!

I think that this was really well-written and you got your point across well. I'm proud to call myself fashionable and I believe that being into trendy clothing (as opposed to the majority of my school, who believes like you do that throwing on whatever in the morning is good enough for them, which I respect), is what sets me apart. I love my fashion as a way to express myself and I think that makeup is fun. How you dress is in no way indicative of how someone is set apart on the inside, if that makes any sense. I may look like a designer-clothes-wearing bottle blonde but I'm smart and motivated, too.

I like this. I love the 60's, and the 70's. I'd like to dress in bell bottoms, fringe, and t-shirts every day. I really would like it if we could all just not be judged based on our clothing, or our makeup(or lack of it), and just say what we feel like. Decorating our lockers in Beatles or Zeppelin...but times have just changed like that. We can't wear what we want, and making first impressions is important now. It's important for college interviews, job interviews...the world as I would have liked it, is gone.

This is almost exactly like me! Pretty much the only difference is that I like the forties, fifties, and sixties, and sometimes I actually dress in that fashion! A lot of people probably are wondering what is wrong with me, but I don't care that much about what they think.

I really enjoyed this article. I think that you really captured the confusion and hardships that go along with finding out who you really are as a person. Wonderful writing. Brava.

that you laugh because im different i laugh because their all the same thing is taken from another young poet

i absolutely LOVE this! i love how you respect and appreciate yourself (confidence rocks!) but most of all i love your descriptions in this article. i cant even name all the tidbits i enjoyed, but i will just say that your details and comparisons where truly great, and entertaing to read (i mean that in the best way). BUT at the same time, consider this: the kind of person you describe yourself as here; quirky, different, against the norm, is almost becoming the new norm in itself. I meet girls like this all the time, and in some ways-there differences are all so similar they become the same. if that makes any sense. but i find (or at least in my part of NYC) that ppl in the in-between are who have the most fun. ;) what mean is people like me: who put some eyeliner on in the morning if i have time and always carry stawberry lip balm, but the make-up isn't for achieving the cleopatra look because a magazine told me to, but because the eyeliner helps show off my long eyelashes (aka: because some make-up can simply enhance your natural beauty). i too like "weird" music; especially for the racial stereotype (im black, btw). Im into (some) current indie-rock bands like MGMT, yet i love music from Broadway musicals and pop and hip-hop music from the 70's, 80's, and 90's. and i will admit, since we dont get too many night time stars in NY (tho we do get some pretty full moons sometimes), im more into watching the stars on the big screen-but only in movies that make me laugh, or cry, or think. And i love fashion, but i dont tend to follow the trends; i make them, and i am an obsessive bargain hunter as well. cuz i believe high-fashion doesn't have to have high prices. so the point of me telling you all this is that, tho the average girl you describe is not the way to go in my opinion either-sometimes its fun to try the thing you never would, but only as much as you feel comfortable, and if thats not at all-then thats cool too. :) (come to the land of the in-betweenies-we have cookies!) haha i just had to throw that in. sorry i wrote so much, btw i blame it on my love for writing i suppose. but in conclusion-awesome article! keep it up! and come check out my stuff if u get the chance :) biya

dude, you cant just go around saying stuff about anorexic people like that. I mean i get that people are all the same i get it im pretty artsy and random. but really?! do you have to bring anorexics into this? iv been one and i know how terrible it is. sometimes its not a choice but ur struggling with it. ---laura

Hi. I am probably a person that you think would be the same as every one else. I think your right about being different. Sure I love putting on makeup (but I hate eyeliner) and I poof my hair up and part it to the side. But I am also the person who hates wearing jeans and the tips of my hair are dyed black. Every one thinks I am gothic. Yet they don't realize I put on makeup, and do my hair. They look at me like I have nothing in common with them. But maybe I don't because I put on makeup and do my hair because I like it that way. It's me. They put it on to be popular...

Bravo. That's all I have to say.