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Comment author: Stefan_Schubert 11 September 2014 09:04:10PM *  3 points [-]

Though that certainly has happened to me as well, it strikes me that the opposite has happened more often: I've done things which turned out to be beneficial, and avoided to do things that would have been bad, because of the opinions of my social circles.

Lots of the time, things that are seen as weird and stupid by the majority actually are weird and stupid.