You don't actually owe apologies or explanations for your preferences, actions, beliefs, decisions or values, you don't need to prove you are "normal" or "not weird".

You don't need to convince people to accept you or to seek their approval or blessing for what you want and do as long as you are within the boundaries of the law.

It's not your job to make sure people have a positive opinion on you or to be likable to everyone or to fulfill their expectations, let alone people who don't know you and which you don't actually care about at all.

You don't even need to argue with them about what you want, prefer or do and you don't need to argue with them about which morality is correct.

Their opinion over you should be irrelevant and it's not your job to make them happy with your personal preferences or decisions in life. It's not your job to justify yourself or do what other people want you to do.

Not your job to fit in with social customs, traditions or cultural norms. You don't even owe them a polite counter-argument when someone projects their discomfort onto your choices.

You are allowed to like whoever you like, and if someone has a problem with your preferences that's their problem, not yours to manage. It's not your obligation or duty to please others or to be apologetic about your desires.

Normal just means ordinary and weird just means different. So stop thinking "being normal" is something you must aspire, and stop thinking "being weird" is inherently negative. You have to be yourself, not aspire to be someone else's definition of "normal".

So every time someone says "you are weird", don't deny it, don't go defensive, instead reaffirm yourself, double down and say you love being weird.

Because the right people will like you the way you are and the wrong people will filter themselves out when their manipulative social pressure does not work on you.

You can take feedback from others sure, but not because you need their validation or acceptance, but rather to improve your own understanding of who you are.