Who was a LONER when they were younger?

[MattSullivan]

Having spent a great deal of time among general fans of just about every kind of popular culture, I was just wondering...

Werewolf fans, I would imagine, were probably lonely kids growing up. A lot of you probably identified with wolves more than people. I myself was shy, cynical, and sometimes angry at the world. I also feigned a dangerous personality, because I almost always felt like someone was out to hurt me ( specially in high school )

Some people would say I haven't changed a bit

Thing is, i eventually got tired of being that kind of person. I grew up so to speak, and became a far more social person. My interests expanded, to things outside of merely wolves or art, to include things like sports and wine, and politics,hoidy-toidy things I SWORE I would never even think about.

So who else here wasn't the most popular, or misunderstood, or possibly even feared? How much of that awkward personality survived into adulthood? And for those of you under the age of 20, do you fit into any of these categories?

[Teh_DarkJokerWolf]

*raises paw* I was definatly a loner..Never had any friends going to school except one boy an sadly I lost contact with him years ago. We were such good friends After that I was truly a loner..Just did not seem to fit in anywhere though I tried..Eh but now I do have friends sadly it took this long, but hey I do have em

[MattSullivan]

That makes me wonder if we ( werewolf fans ) are for the most part distrusting of others, and that's the reason we weren't more outgoing in the pursuit of friends. I also had self-worth issues, feeling like I didn't matter, or that nothing I did mattered.

[Templar]

Yeah, I was a loner. I wanted to make the lifelong friends everybody around me seemed to have, but that's rather hard to do when yer movin from place to place every few years. I eventually just accepted my permanent outsider status and came to value my privacy. I'll admit that when I was younger I pretended to act dangerous, but that didn't work out too well.

After years of training in different martial arts, though, I kinda did become dangerous, so being hazed or bullied in junior high and high school wasn't much of a problem, heheheh...

[Timber-WoIf]

I AM dustrusting of everyone.

yes i was a loner all my life

[Fang]

I hate having friends who don't get me and I like to stay away from crowds, I'm a loner

[Kaebora]

I was lonely before my high school years, but not because I was a werewolf fan. (You guys kinda converted me more recently. ) It's hard to talk about those lonesome days though. Now that I moved to another place for college, it's lonely again. Trips back to Texas are getting expensive.

[RedEye]

Been a Loner most of my life, by choice. I seem to march to the beat of a different drummer, who has three sticks and no sense of rythm.
Oh, well....

[BlackWolfDS]

*raises paw*
I was a loner, becuase I had and still possible have the learning disability ADD. I remember always being overlooked....always blending in with the scenery. In addition to that, I was shy and very quiet. I would often wander during recess in elementary school. In middle school, I had like two loose friends. We only talked during lunch and that was it. Then I hit high school. Freshman year I made a lot of friends and we are still friends now. (Me being in my Senior year.) Yet...there's still that distinct feeling that is still there. That feeling separates them from myself. So all in all I still consider myself a lone wolf. Now and forever..... until I find a mate of course

[White Paw]

*raises paw and smiles wide* right here Matt.... memememe

[nachoboy]

yup, i been a loner much of my life. as a small child, i would stay by myslef most of the time until about the 4th grade, but then, for 5th and 6th grade, i was a loner again... yeah, there was a short peroid where i was like all popular as a child... it was pretty crazy.

but then, in middle school, i basically jus hung out with like 4 buddies, and other than that, i just was alone... when i was younger, i was kinda a introvert.

now, in high school, i'm kinda comin out of my shell... i hang with others more, but i still like bein alone, hangin by myself, knamean? i'm not a big fan of people i don't know really well, so i don't chill with people unless they're really my peeps, you know?

[Faolan Bloodtooth]

*Raises Paw*

Yup, i was a loner because of extremely hummongous self worth issues (to the point where i would tell people to get away because i though i was bad for them )

But now i'm not, got a bundle of self confidence and awesome friends

Laters

[Kalira]

I went in a weird order I did ok til middle school then I got to be more and more of a loner. I have a small circle of friends, which I'm more than OK with. I have always been able to identify more with animals than people, especially dogs ( wolves of course too, but I was actually able to hanf out with dogs vs wolves)

[Shadow Wulf]

I never was a loner except for the third grade and thats it. The thing is I had common kid interest, it was untill I got into the 6th grade is when I really got into werewolves, and then I got more into wolves.

[alphanubilus]

Interesting group...

Well now... strange as it may seem, and even stranger to most that know me professionally, I have always been a loner type. Not that nobody liked me, or that I couldn't fit in, but that I have always been overtly analytical. Things such as friends, relationships, family, all seemed things of study rather than something of personal value. It is like watching a documentary and I was the guy behind the camera. Obversing, but never partaking... Like the first time I noticed my relatively close gang of friends falling heads over heals for the opposite sex while I was in Middle School... I thought to myself... "These folks act so foolish... what would drive anyone to be like that..." At the time, feelings like that I couldn't understand... Simply because I was always the outsider, looking in. Not that friends didn't matter to me... I was NEVER truly an introvert, nor was I an extrovert. I have never been shy, and I can just about carry a conversation with anyone, and I did. While I was in college I opened up even more, however, I still retained status as a loner...

My art professor once told me that I was a dicotomy... In short... a walking contradiction... a two-sided coin... almost two very different people, yet one personality. I'm sure most people are like this, for we all have sides we show readily as well as hide. I dunno, but I sure marveled her... Oh well...

As for wolves... hum... I don't know of any one reason why I like them, just that as far back as I can remember, even at ages 2 or 3, I've always liked them. I know I learned much about werewolf lore from my father. He was pretty heavy into the old lore, if I remember correctly.

[deruty]

I was definately a loner. I actual "had" an attraction to dark corners. I've had small groups of friends, but never more.
I don't think it was because of my peculiar interests, but my inability to socialize. I don't like people very much either. It may also be because of my inability to cope with myself.

[ArcaneWerewolf]

I've always been a loner, and I sorta still am. I've had a few friends here and there, but some of them usually turned against me for unknown reasons (Except one guy who started hating me because I wouldn't do some schoolwork for him...idiot). I was extremely timid and had feelings of not belonging among most people. As a result of hardly ever socializing in life, I tend to be somewhat awkward when talking with others

[Fenrir]

I'am probably the only one who will say no, but I try to be friends with everyone. I don't always like people, but I don't go up and start stuff with them. I have very good friends who I wouldn't trade for the world, it's true they can get anoying and sometimes we get into arguements, but usually we have a good time. I'am still young, and I think matt means in Highschool, and so I am answering with how my high school life has been so far, If I end up alone and abandoned in my senior year, then meh I had a good run, at least I'll have the memories..... That's why I'am not afraid of death, if you've lived a good life, even if the end is nothing but eternal loneliness, you can just float and remember all the times you had, whether you and your friends went into an empty movie theatre and spent the whole time playing around (highly recomended) or sat by the lake and just stared at the sunset and talked about the future..... you appreciate good friends. So if you're are lonely now, I bet of you be the first to make contact with new people, even if you have known of each other, don't give everyone the cold shoulder. Maybe it's just that I live in one of the few places were people on the streets smile and wave to you, and generally care for the well being of strangers, I don't know.

In short don't let life pass you by always try to make friends it can't hurt, and do not ever be unkind to others even if it is a slight nod on the street, Pie-May will come and get you if you don't nod back

[Figarou]

I lived most of my younger life as a "military brat." So...yes...I was a LONER when I was younger.


I didn't like the idea of moving every 2 years to a new location just because my father had to be relocated. Army life sucks. I mostly kept to myself knowing that any new friends I make will end up leaving when their father/mother gets a new assignment.

[Terastas]

According to my dad, I've been an "independent free-thinker" since I was three years old, long before I developed any interest in were-anythings.

[PariahPoet]

*raises a silver paw*
I always preferred the company of my animal companions to that of the ignorant hicks in my hometown.
(of course there were a handful of decent people I was friends with)

[Hamster]

Loner here.

I never seemed to have been liked very much at school. It wasn't all the kids who bothered and ignored me, it was every female. Other girls always seemed to hate me for some reason. They would tease me, steal stuff from my locker even when I can see them doing it, take any drawing I was caught with and ball it up. One time, someone put condoms (open but unused, thank goodness) and porn in my locker. The teachers knew damn well I'm a good girl and will never do such a thing so I didn't get in trouble. They never found the one who did it, sadly. It came to the point when I broke down at school after almost 10 years of bullying. That is the reason why I am home schooled. I had a nervous breakdown at school and just started breaking things while screaming. During this nutty feast which lasted about 30 seconds I smacked a 17 year boy who have been f***ing with me since I came to that highschool and he then he kicked my a$$. Freakin' wife beater. It wasn't so much the punches and stomping that hurt, it was his ring which pricked me after every punch. What makes matter worst is that the school didn't do jack squat about it. That is when I knew I needed to get the f*** out.

I also have some emotional problems. Mainly because of my young childhood. I had a very abusive childhood and was molested and raped over the span of six years. I until now have claimed it doesn't bother me if I didn't think about it but now I see it does. I need to grow up and put the past behind me.

I always sort comfort in drawing. Ecspecally animals. Only until 12 I realized I had a love for wolves. I remember watching a four hour documentary at the Discovery Channel about a man and his crew who follows the interesting lives of a wolf pack over 5 years. I went on line and googled "wolves" and been in love ever since.

[Silverclaw]

Geesh, that really sucks Hamster

And yeah, I've been the loner type as well. Always have been VERY shy and quiet, especially while in school. Almost never talked at all in Middle and High school. Its kindof funny, if your the quiet one, everyone assumes that your either very good at schoolwork/homework/ect, or your some sortof retard I've had some s*** people make fun of me, but no real bullying. Very much like being invisible most of the time. I'd sit alone at lunch and all if my few friends were assigned to a different lunch time.
Combination of my own social anxitey and that a lot of kids my age didnt like me for whatever reason.
I'm better now, but still have some problems. Not a big talker around people I dont know very well. Nowhere near as shy as I used to be thankfully. Still dont have too much of a social life still though lol, oh well

[Kirk Hammett]

Heh it's been 5 days since I have been here.

I had small groups of friends in school. I've never been a really assertive person, I actually became very distrusting the older I got, oddly (and sadly). But my small school groups ... we were all geeks, all individuals, all got bullied, mostly verbally, sometimes physically, whether we were male or female. I was introverted a lot for a while, getting better, but I will never be an extrovert.

I do, and have always had some form of social life though (Even though for many years I just spent time with Steph inventing extremely complex games with swords and costumes, shape shifting and castles, characters etc), I'm just not big on large groups, I like small groups, and I don't have many friends, simply because I don't want many. If someone looks at me first and smiles, I can make friends very easily. But I'm shy, and I don't have a great deal of patience for rude, arrogant, argumentative, and people who are downright aggressive. However, I am not rude to these people, I merely just don't talk to them, or am polite for as long as they are in the room...they generally drift away from me when they find I am not talkative (Not offline I'm not).

I can also spend extremely large amounts of time alone, playing guitar. I need personal space, alone time. I've been like this my whole life.

Being in the music industry though, you have to learn to come out of your shell, to talk to people, get contacts; and I've become so much more open now, able to talk to people, through this, through playing on stage, and talking to the right people. Being at University also does this.

As for having unique interests, my view has, and always will be, if people don't like you for being the interesting, sometimes eccentric person you are, then they are not worth the trouble. Only one of my friends has any interest in werewolves, and even then it's minimal. But I have an interest I share with every friend, something to talk about in depth.

And these friends are what I consider my pack, part of my actual family, and there are maybe 5 of them, which my genetic family cares for a lot too (Especially two of them, Andy and Steph).

Right now, I have other groups I tend to hang with on very minimal occasions. But I can't go without my five 'pack' friends, for very long, although I love the fact they allow me my alone time and they need theirs.

(Alright my mother is screaming her head off at me for trying to help her. I wish to god I could just move out. Im going to the rant board. I need to share how immature she is, for at least a few laughs).

[MoonKit]

I think, if I may butt in, most people who talk on messege boards are or were loners, werewolf fans or not.