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Insane-weird. I draw comics on the dry erase board at work. (I'm a hairstylist.) The girls there treat me like I'm weird when I do this. Not necessarily because of the content, but because I'll be sitting in the break room and an idea will come. I'll draw it. They laugh, but also seem uncomfortable. They have even said, "that's how she gets the crazy out." I don't think that's insane, but some do. If you have been lucky enough not to encounter that, fantastic. Maybe it's just me or the people I'm around.
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By definition, creative and imaginative people use a different part of their brain more -- the right. For those mainly operating in the side, their understanding is that everything must have a reason, purpose, be linear. When something -- an idea, a behavior, a joy -- doesn't follow rationale lines, people think it is dysfunctional. They just don't know any better. That said, it can be scary to witness how deep the realm of the right-brained person. The creative and imaginative person is essentially living with greater dimension that is not limited nor defined by ordinary time/space. Are they insane? Sometimes. Sometimes because we have to live WITH each other, in community. That requires, among other things, systems. Organized systems. Random systems of being, which creative and imaginative people must have to take care of their gifts, sometimes affect others. I am left-brained and right-brained. A Gemini? I annoy all kinds of people.
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I did not know they did. I am creative and I surround myself with many people who far more creative than myself, I have never heard any of them speak about being treated like they were insane. But we humans do fear what we do not understand, and we also fear facing our own "unusual" traits.
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Because creative minds think differently than the most people. Generally people have a hard time understand and accepting anything that is different. Creative people do what they feel they must to get the creativeness out and express who they are - even if that might be extreme to most people.
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People not being able to understand us is the obvious reason... Society in general have an absolute obsession with placing everything and everyone in little labelled boxes... When a person is too free spirited and unchained to be boxed, they get the loud, simultaneous "gasp" from the world... that is where the 'insane' title comes in... If u ask me however, those who have lost their creativity or imagination along the way,or had it brainwashed into a "box-kosher-like" form are probably the strangest/most unnatural of them all... Human were made distinct individuals, each with their own unbarred creativity for a reason... It hurts me to think of what has become of us...
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Because others can't comprehend the way our minds work, making us different, hence: Making us freaks. And we all know how poorly freaks are treated...
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because creativity and imagination usually lead to innovation. And innovation, as you know, requires "out of the box" thinking. if you're "in the box", you can't relate and don't necessarily appreciate what it takes.
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i remember the 1st moment .. i did not Think like the others.. i thought it was cool that i could draw so easy.. i remember all my class mate say wow gala that is so cool how did you do that..;,?, then one boy said, "yah so what she can draw she can not read." so.. i took the words of one jealous little boy to my heart.. and left all the parse behind me.. ----------- when i went to an art school for design i was with others that had brains like this.. i would hear the kind of story's they had and how they where treated.. then i had this teacher.. he said something that change the way i thought about my self...." if people don't understand (someone..something) they fear them.. if they do not go along with the heard.. its a away to keep ((control)) over the heard of cows.. if one cow move out .. the others will follow that one..
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When people don't understand it's easier for them to identify it as being insane or you're insane rather than them trying to understand
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Yeah, and I agree with the "Everyone's insane" theory, but I'm hesitant to quote Seal.
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