Are you an Average Joe or a Basic Linda?

thereddespair · 2015-10-09T19:43:13+00:00

average female n count lol, tried the average california life. got a degree, average job. not single. focus used to be beauty, now its transitioning to athleticism. no anxiety no depression, quite happy, no regrets, faced all my demons already. what might be off about me is though im a woman im trying to incorporate male trp ideas into my life, mostly their self improvement line - not the trpw. i dont need their sex/relationship stuff as i already have full control of that right now; already have all i need, if not more. what i want now is accomplishment, through my own hands. i dont wanna be the one on the bench cheering, i wanna be the one who is out there now. cost has been big, i lost touch with most of my friends, who are still in the hollywood life. but that is fine, just gotta find new ones who are on a similar track that im on. intend to get a second degree but i dont know yet how

TheGreasyPole · 2015-10-09T18:52:07+00:00

Im going to be a reddit and RP outlier in almost every respect.

I am 39 and working class. I've got a couple of degrees, and am in a senior management position in IT. I'm British. I'm extremely left wing. I'm married, my wife is RP-Aware, but not an RPW. I got two young kids.

As most of you will know, my hobbies are learning stuff, and then chatting shit on the internet about the stuff I have learned. I've been doing that for approximately 15 years. And in that time have covered most of the fields of Economics, Politics, Genetics, Evo Psych, Cosmology, Ethics, Philosophy, Socialism and RP pretty well... And another few fields in a passing fashion.

And I play cricket occasionally too.

My art history is shit.

This lifestyle is what cause me to be RP. I tripped across it because I wanted to spice up the marriage.... And about 50 pages into MMSLP I realised I had discovered the field of Applied Evo psych in humans that I had always previously known as Theoretical Evo psych- It seems like this could get me laid but I don't know how.

And the two just fit together like a key going in an expensive and well oiled lock. ~snick~.

And so I began to have a lot of fun with it.... And as I was also a "naturally high SMV guy, who had been nerfing that psychologically".... When I tried it out it was extremely easy to make it work very well.

And then a I came here. And started talking to heathens because I like chatting about something with an opposing viewpoint. I need a whetstone.

1% of PPD is that whetstone. 99% is fucking around on the Internet.

chloe1204 · 2015-10-09T17:09:27+00:00

My lifestyle is pretty average

I am a housewife. I am 7 months pregnant. I live with my Husband who is an IT engineer. I am 27 and he is 30. Very average.

I am a white woman, husband is chinese. Not very average in my experience.

I'm short and fat, he's short and thin. We are about on the same attractiveness level, maybe he's slightly better looking than I am. I see a lot of couples like that. Average.

I have hardly any friends but I have 2 very close. I am friends with a schizophrenic guy I used to be flatmates with in my early 20s. We meet up like every 2 weeks and go out to eat together. He gets pretty lonely and he is really funny and around him I always have a blast. I am also close friends with a girl who has mild learning disabilities and severe mental health problems. We meet every month and have also known each other for years. Probably not average.

My Husband is socially reclusive and has hardly any friends. Not average.

"Personality is kinda hard to qualify so if you have a diagnosed disorder that affects your personality you can consider yourself non-average"

I have a small degree of autism and severe anxiety problems. In that respect I am not average. I am high functioning and can live independently, but I prefer my husband to help me with a lot of things especially if they are outside the home.

I can't think of any crazy shit I do in my spare time. Unless you think a Pokemon hobby for a 27 year old woman is crazy shit, which a lot of people do. Sadly I haven't been able to engage in it for several months because my 3DS got accidentally thrown away when I was moving house and my Husband hasn't bought me a new one. Sad because my pregnancy is making me too ill to go outside and I could really do with the joy of playing it right now.

DaThrowaway808 · 2015-10-09T17:44:02+00:00

I'm completely, across the board, average.

philomexa · 2015-10-09T17:50:00+00:00

I think I'm fairly average, but I have some non-average exceptions.

average: 31, married, new baby boy, corporate advertising job, Chicago, cat, apartment, 3 freshwater fish tanks, Ford Focus. Male friends in IT or the music industry, female friends in corporate jobs or teachers.

non-average: biracial (Italian, Afro-Caribbean), parents 25 years apart in age, parents are immigrants, parents are in the top 1%. I work, my husband stays home and looks after our child (I understand this is more prevalent in today's society, but my non-average exception is that I'm happy with this, and specifically sought it out). My husband and I are politically active marijuana enthusiasts, as in we protest, lobby, educate (etc.) to get MMJ cleared up in Illinois (damn you Rauner!!). We're both HUGE wrestling fans.

neither average nor non-average: my husband and I are both thin and athletic, as well as short-ish (I'm 5'3", hes 5'8"). He's white and comes from blue collar roots, and as I said, I'm biracial and come from rich-as-fuck roots.

We choose to elope 10 years ago (to a courthouse) because I can't stand the idea of a wedding and we were horny-drunk on each other. My husband was the social chair of his frat as well as the lead singer of a band, I was just a shy nice girl.

I'm not much for crazy shenanigans, I traveled all over the world when I was a child, I used to be a competitive figure skater until I busted my hip at 15, I did a lot of drugs in my 20's.

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MissMaude · 2015-10-09T18:56:42+00:00

I am mildly above average? I am 31 and make 6-figures. My husband is very successful but in a much less lucrative field. We work in the entertainment industry and have amassed many interesting friends. This and my husband's work grants us access to cool events and parties.

He is tall and cool and well respected, I am short and outgoing and have good fashion sense. We're both pretty average looking but with an artsy flair. He's got a killer beard.

A production company shot a pilot for a reality show about my friends and me. It never got picked up. So not totally uninteresting but not interesting enough.

Edit: both my husband and I's parents are still married and financially comfortable and generous. We very much appreciate these offers but reject them as we both value independence. I went to private schools growing up and we always had a cleaning lady and gardeners. My N count is 1- my husband. I was mildly religious and then paranoid because my sisters appeared to be the most fertile humans on earth.

AbrasiveAsshole · 2015-10-09T20:04:54+00:00

Average: 36 year-old white male. Work an average job that probably straddles the line between blue and white collar, but probably more toward the blue collar side. Make about $100K so I guess that's slightly above average.

I'm 5'10" and my looks are average.

I'm non-average in N count. My N count is very high.

Average? Not average? I have never been married and I don't have any kids.

Non-average: I've become almost a complete loner. My personality has sort of gone to hell. Bitter, jaded, avoiding people. Have banished most of my friends from my life, so I have almost none, but it's by choice. Also have become pretty bad alcoholic, among other things.

Non-average: Have had lots of relationships, but had a bad one 5 years ago and have never dated again.

[deleted] · 2015-10-09T19:43:24+00:00

Eh, I am a college student who is generally high achieving in the classroom, not like, always amazing, but I usually do well. Aside from that, I produce (hip hop is something I am deeply passionate about), put on rap shows, mostly focusing on promotion/show planning/theater tech, mod games (Fallout is life), etc. Aside from that, I have been in a relationship for over a year that has been pretty awesome (our worst weeks are merely not perfect). I also have a soft spot for animals and soft things. Also, PC gaming in general, that shit is too fun.

Other things to note are that I am introverted, am on the autism spectrum, and had depression and social anxiety in that past. I successfully dealt with each condition and function fine, but that is my past. I also have worked multiple internships in the same time frame, so I guess you can say my motivation to build a resume is an outlier. That's on the backburner as I work to get into my major, but I plan on pursuing more shit like that in the future.

Overall, I am pretty average, and I know it, but the stuff I am good at, I can confidently say I do well.

susandeath · 2015-10-09T19:48:34+00:00

I guess I am pretty average, but there are some non-average things about me.

For one I am a South African, which makes me average in real life but not here.

I am polyamorous and bisexual, I guess that's non-average too.

I own 20% of my company and work as a Company Secretary. I am good at my job, but I am not doing any ground-breaking work - so that's average too.

Non-average is that I started a project to knit hats for homeless people, it started as something to do while watching tv, and is now starting to turn into a fully-fledged non-profit.

99_Problem · 2015-10-09T23:08:11+00:00

I look in the mirror, and I see a dead end.

I am the only child of my parents, the only child on my father's side, and I was intentionally isolated from my mother's side. I am 30-something, single, and I have no children.

I dropped out of high school and worked as a carpenter for a long time. The economy took a dump in 07/08, and I went back to college at 28 to eventually graduate with a BS in Chemistry. Now I am pursuing a master's in engineering.

Most of my friends are drug dealers, thieves, graffiti writers, musicians, mountain goats, and other deviants.

[deleted] · 2015-10-09T23:52:00+00:00

Meh I'm pretty much average in terms of where I am in life but I have a personality that grabs attention and an interesting social circle to balance it out.

wuboo · 2015-10-10T02:54:14+00:00

Do it enough and anything can become normal or "average". I think this is why I have a skewed view of what's considered normal.

Did my undergrad and grad school at an Ivy League. Ice climbed during the winter, dabbled and then crashed a few startup endeavors, and partied my way through the underground lgbt scene. Those those fun times.

Now a techie and in my 20's. I've traveled to various places in Europe and the Middle East for work as well as around the country. I actually do not have wander lust despite, or perhaps because of, the amount of traveling I do. I box and do stand up comedy for fun. Have plenty of friends and a few very dear friends.

I'm the odd one in the family for not knowing more than two languages. At last count, my dad spoke six. I think the average for both sides of the family is three.

My mom disowned me.

I have a below average sense of smell. I don't drink coffee or alcohol - never understood the appeal.

I'm think my experiences have made me more trusting than average and has made me believe people to be more competent than average.

3dbattleship · 2015-10-10T04:37:09+00:00

Every time I make a post with an anecdote I get immediate responses that my experience is well outside the norm, so I'd say I'm far different from average. Not better or worse, just different.

MuslimGoku · 2015-10-10T08:54:26+00:00

In some ways I'm awesome, in other ways I'm pathetic. I feel pretty awesome and above average when I'm riding my mini cooper s manual and showing every wannabe car enthusiast how a real transmission works, and making their shitty little V8 suck all 7 gears of my stick shift. And I feel pretty awesome when I'm benching scores more than all my tall buddies. But I feel pretty shitty and wimpy when my crippling alcoholism causes me to sell my blood plasma twice a week so I can get drunk on expensive wine and cry in my room about stuff that only seems to make sense when I'm totally wasted.

FirionDarklight · 2015-10-10T11:59:27+00:00

Age 24. Height 1.67 meters. Literature freak. Video game freak. Computer engineering student. Will probably graduate in about 1.5 years. Accomplished kickboxer(silver medal in nationals). Enjoy studying philosophy. The only "special" thing about me is the ability to project a social(bordering on over social) persona even though i prefer keeping to myself. From time to time, i had issues. I sought counselling. Now i am doing/accomplishing stuff and i am ok(helped that therapist was actual competent and kinda RP)(was a woman as well). No diagnosed disorder. N count including sex workers : 6. How it affects my posting here : I can talk about anything and listen to even the most extreme points of view and not take the disagreement personal or feel repulsed by people believing different things. I guess that makes me a middle man of sorts. Also, when i see hypocrisy/shit on any side, i am willing to call it out. Harshly. Rarely I filter what I want to say. Exception being family and close friends on sensitive issues. Better to upset some and get the point across than sugarcoat everything.

CreepyPsychoStalker · 2015-10-10T17:27:06+00:00

Not average, I have a first from a Russell Group (very good in the UK) university, I have a job that nearly pays $100k* at 23. I am 2/3 of the way through an open degree with the OU. I'd say I'm more driven than average and I'm pretty adventurous. I have been professionally published and I go on holiday a lot. I work in data analysis and everyone on my team is more than 10 years older than me and male. I have a FWB which is slightly atypical and a lot of hobbies, I also don't want children.

*I'm not including any of the money from other stuff I do, I use that to fill my pension pot and I don't include it in my budget.

antariusz · 2015-10-12T00:03:18+00:00

I'd call myself "slightly above average overall, but not so above average that the rules don't apply to me".

I graduated from a small midwestern highschool. (common)

I was pretty smart, but didn't apply myself. (very common)

I joined the military. (common)

I got out and was depressed. (common)

I'm 5'8" (1 inch below average in the u.s.)

I am decent looking, no facial deformities, but maybe a bit asymmetrical face (common)

I make about 150,000 a year (top say 5% this is an outlier)

I played too many video games and wasted too many social opportunities in my teens and early 20s. (very common)

I used to be overweight, but I've been working on it for a while (again, super common).

The only thing that really truly sets me apart is my red pill mentality and drive to improve once I discovered it and tapped into it. (very uncommon)

Otherwise, before I found the red pill about 3 years ago I was setting myself up to be a beta bucks to a single mother who had a kid with a traditional "bad boy" random hookup during her party college years, a few years before she met me. (very common).

Thankfully I broke up with her when I recognized signs of branch swinging (she texted another man and told him that he was her soul mate after we'd been dating for about 15 months)(very uncommon, without the redpill I might have tried to forgive her and make things work, or something)

I went from a virgin at 25 (not very common) to triple digits within 7 years (not very common)

TheChemist158 · 2015-10-09T18:03:35+00:00

I think I'm more or less average. PhD student, introvert, vegetarian, some anxiety issues, makes bows. That's about as non average as I get, and it's nothing all that crazy.

Edit: I also have a speech impediment. Does that count for anything? After 15 minutes of angrily searching the internet, I learned that "shingles" has an "h" in it. Most 22 year old women knew that already.

vinegarbubblegum · 2015-10-09T17:42:29+00:00

I am not average.

I'm well above average in almost every regard, except my height, which is a very average 5'9", but I'm 5'10" when asked IRL because I'm often wearing shoes. I'm 180 and ripped. I'm almost 30.

bachelor degree and college diploma, scholarships and internships, job in my field shortly after graduation, have been published widely for my journalism, have written hundreds of hundreds of jokes that my social media circle seems to enjoy. lots of friends, had lots of sex, broke a few hearts, have been hurt in relationships personally, don't blame all women for it, moved on, found my better half.

I work in the energy sector, which is not great right now, but I'm an office worker and have job security. I own my own home and car, I have a wonderful partner who is equally educated and ambitious. Together we will conquer the world.

I have written a novel and a collection of short stories but have made no attempt to have them published because I am working on a large body of work before approaching publishers.

I am very good looking and so is my partner. We both work and volunteer. I have a routine to maintain myself, including high-end hygiene products and workout regimes I put into practice throughout the day (I didn't need RP for this advice, surprisingly). I once got fat and became disgusted with myself and resolved never to be fat again. I am on anti-depressants and at this point have probably smoked my own body weight in marijuana. The anti-depressants aren't because I am clinically depressed, but because I have nerve wracking anxiety at times, and the pill I am on helps with that, even though it is considered an anti-depressant. I enjoy magic mushrooms and am probably an alcoholic, but a "functioning alcoholic." (I'm drinking right now)

Both my parents are together, educated, and driven. I had an ideal childhood and my relationship with both of my parents is great. They are who I go to when I can't turn to my partner. I don't turn to the Internet for advice, I think that's fucked.

I am straight white male of middle class origins, and I am very aware of how much this has benefited me living in the West. I have dual-citizenship and was not born in the country I currently reside in, but I love both my countries. I have travelled extensively, but the West is the Best! Best part about travelling is that you can always go home.

Currently working my way through Final Fantasy 7 (second time around) while reading various books and magazines (read all of ASOIAF this year, well, what's available). I read probably 10 newspapers a day, all from various points of view, from NYTimes to Breitbart and everything in between. I need to know things, it's what makes me tick.

I'm also part of an art collective that makes short films and artsy photography. I generally think artsy people are self-interested phaggots, but I like my collective. We are all former athletes turned art fags.

This is me.

Title	Are you an Average Joe or a Basic Linda?
Author	RedManBearPig
Upvotes	5
Comments	85
Date	October 9, 2015 4:59 PM UTC (10 years ago)
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