I don't have to try. I'm so freaking lovable! ?

Not hard...

Sadly not hard enough. I tend to polarise opinion.

Not in the slightest.

Not something I'm too concerned with.

Not at all really. I'm a human being. That's enough for any practicing human being

I don't try at all. I am who I am. Love me or not. It's not my business what you think of me.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw

While I love Leunig's work. I think that being acceptable is such a relative term. I'm minded of the old saying 'one person's trash is another person's treasure'.

I don't try to be acceptable, but I do try to blend in while I do my own thing, so I won't be bothered.
This works well in Thailand, where people mind their own business and if I act weird, they chalk it up to my being a foreigner..

I am re writing the definitions!!!

To be acceptable to me? As hard as I need to. I live with me. I can't get away from me. If I'm not pleased with me I need to try harder to fix why. Everyone else can take a flying leap. I don't want to rock the boat. I don't care for confrontation but don't go out of my way to avoid it either. If I manage to screw something up, and I've had my fair share of doing just that, I do what I can to fix it. That's all any reasonable person can ask of me. I'm not looking for specific approval or disapproval from anyone else. But I cannot escape me.

Never fitted in and never will stopped caring what others thought years ago , I don't try to be offensive so meh

I searched my backpack thoroughly and found zero fucks with which to give.

I don't waste any time with it. There will always be nay sayers who will talk behind your back which is where they belong. Be yourself because everyone else is taken and remind them to take a long deep look into the mirror before they want to make any remarks.

I am who I am . Like me or not, I'm at an age I don't give a sht.

As a woman, I think our gender was raised that way back in the 50's, then add in the effect of Christianity. UGH! It took me a lot of years to accept who I am and be comfortable in my own skin. I don't try anymore because I'm fine with who and what I am

Knowingly or unknowingly?

I generally stick to the laws of the land: can't play fairer than that.

I truly do not care whether I'm "accepted" or not. I made my peace with being completely unacceptable a long time ago.
Besides, most of the people who have found me unacceptable were/are, in fact, utter assholes.
Who wants acceptance from them?

I try to be kind, but discovered as a child that no matter how hard you try, someone is going to be pissy about it. So now, I still try to be kind, but the only approval I seek is from myself.

I think it's about whether you define yourself through external sources or not. IMHO, if you do, there is something missing inside you. Once you become whole inside yourself, all of that concern over others disappears.

Now, about the cartoon, some of the things people do to be acceptable or attractive are good things. For instance, I walk my dogs and sometimes jog, not because I'm looking to be attractive to someone, but because it benefits me. It makes my organs healthier, and mentally it's a calming experience for me. It helps with my PTSD.

But I couldn't care less (yes, that's how you say that) about the perception of others. It's my time on this earth, so if you don't like it, get out of my way and don't waste my precious time.

On the flip side, I don't actively try to offend people. At work, I watch my language, etc. But when they ask me what I'm doing for Easter, I don't hesitate to tell them that I don't celebrate that holiday. If they're offended, that's their problem.

I've given up almost entirely.

Fuck that shit. I tried most of my youth to fit in and I just don't. if you don't like it do the other thing.

I try to be accepted because it is too much of a bother to deal with people who disagree. Call me lazy, but I prefer not deal with people who are different. I am chill person so conflict and disagreeing is just not my style.