What about odd is odd?
*This was a response I wrote to a short answer question for a program I was applying to.
It's odd that being odd makes you less odd when around other odd people. There's only one way to be a truly normal person and there's a thousand different ways that you can be weird, yet, those wildly different weird people will feel more at home with each other than with the normal person. Even when you take two odd people, who are complete opposites of each other, and one normal person who is in the middle; they will still prefer the company of each other even though they are both more similar to the normal person. That's odd right? I think it's because when you are odd, you don't make friends with people who are like you because nobody else is like you. You make friends with people who can tolerate you. Making friends as a normal person is easy because most people are like you, so you never learn tolerance. That's why odd goes with odd, even though they are nothing alike. Only weird people can tolerate other kinds of weird.