I so hate "personal presentations"

Had one of those for a class today. (online personal presentation).

I look at the description: Write a personal description of yourself.
/me think: The honest or the shallow, grey-scale aka "normal" version?

I quickly glance at what the others have written:
"My name is X, I live here in Y, but im originally from Z. I did work some at P back in school, and after school I had a job as a Q.

My interests are: A, B, C, D and E.
On my free time I like to do M and N, and some V from time to time."

And so it goes on and on and on... And everybodys presentations are all the same... Greyscaled and perfectly fit to what the grey mass thinks is "normal".

So I think to myself: What the ###$ do they wanna hear about anyway? Do they actually want that X and Y crap? Because it bores the $#%^ out of me. Maybe I should write a unique and honest presentation, where I tell them that Im a cold-hearted bastard without any compassion/care for the world around me... that Im a cynical, misanthropical and anti-social schizoid ISTJ who just wants to be ######6 alone? Is that what they want to hear? Of course not. The average Joe doesn't understand even half of those words:
misanthropical? anti-social? schizoid? ISTJ?

(I always find myself usingwords and definitions that "normal" people just don't know about. Hell, not even the average shrink knows wtf Schizoid means)

In the end I think to myself: It's not worth it... and I start writing on one of those dull and grey "Hi my name is X"-presentations. Because as a schizoid, I do prefer to be honest, but I think it's more important not to "stick out".

amusing story , yup, life can be frustrating

Do they actually want that X and Y crap?

I think moste of them are actually interested in that stuff.
Never been in a situation where everybody was sharing data/talking about other people's lives? Well, I have (and I never seemed to know who the ###$ they were talking about )

and doesn't that sound autistic? yet still they claim to be 'normal'

Because as a schizoid, I do prefer to be honest, but I think it's more important not to "stick out".

guess we all have to join the herd once in a while


paradox

Artificial Lifeform,

Just read your post. Comes across as a good idea for a new thread. One where we can all fill in our own personal presentation - and be honest.

the histrionics would just love that idea

(just don't think it would be very successful on this forum)

Me neither.

Hm, mentioning histrionics popped up a very interesting thought in my mind:
What would happen if a schizoid and a histrionic got stuck on the same deserted island?