Being Accepted

At what age do we start to want to fit in, and why? I believe that we start caring about
fitting in when we are about 5 years old because before that we have our family taking
care of us. We do not have society to worry about. Once we reach school age we start to
deal with peer pressure, and the standards that society believes are important and
allow you to fit in. If you are too fat, short, tall, smart, skinny, or are from another ethnic
group or country it will affect how people think of you or treat you. We stared getting type
cast, and find that once you have been placed into a group the popular, unpopular you are
stuck in it while you are in that same group. If you want to fit in with the popular crowd
you have to play by their rules.

We start wanting to be part of a group, because we want to have friends, we want to belong
and not be left out. Be singled out make you an out cast and also a target that can be mocked
at. It also makes you feel good or bad about yourself depending on where your peers place
you. The issue with society is that there is nowhere that states every one has to be thin and fit
and smart and funny and fit in. It is just the perceptions we have because of the mass media
and people go crazy over stuff like that. Like they binge and they don’t eat and they become
bulimic and no one is totally comfortable with them self because there afraid of how the
world is viewing them.

When do we start caring, and then like you can have it go from child hood. How we feel like we
need to fit in up to college and older and what happens when we do or don't and you can talk
about publicity and how society feels the need to conform to what magazines and other publications
show us how we depend on those images to make us happy and use those images to set an example
for ourselves. Like I feel that its a issue with society, there is nowhere that states every one has to be
thin and fit and smart and funny and fit in. It is just the perceptions we have because of the mass
media and people go crazy over stuff like that. Like they binge and they don’t eat and they become
bulimic and no one is totally comfortable with them self because there afraid of how the world is
viewing them.

Questions that it brought up:
At what age do we start to want to fit in, and why?
Why do we want to fit in?
What are societies norms for fitting in?
Who is out and who is in?
What happens when you are the out cast?
In what way does it affect you if you do or don't fit in?
Is it all just a big fad?
Why is being different considered to be the number one rule not to be accepted?
Does not fitting in make you the better and stronger person?
What are some of the consequences of not fitting in?
What happens when you do fit in?
Is it better not to be yourself just so you fit in?