Making Friends Outside The Subculture

[Ametrin]

Mmm well since this was brought back and I hadn't posted here yet ... My answer is definitely yes; I am a rather quiet person and I have just few friends and none of them is goth (though after I lend Siouxsie's music to my best friend from the uni she got to love it a lot too and she got almost as obsessed in the songs as me! biggrin ). I don't mind that, they don't seem to be any goths about my age in my city anyways; there are rather teenage mall goths. But I don't know, even if there were goths of around my age in my city, I wouldn't know how to approach them anyways because I'm too shy to start making friends with strangers... so I'm better sticking to the non goth friends I have and I know they like me the way I am.  

[Vexworth]

*shrug* None of my friends are goth. None of my friends are really subculturally inclined in any way at all. (there really aren't any goths around where i am, anyway.) I have, however, gotten quite a few of them hooked on the music. 3nodding

 

[Neon~Starshine]

Restricting myself to interactions only involving people that look like me always seemed incredibly stupid. Some of the best friends I've had are dreadfully "normal," while some of the worst are considered Gothic. By my senior year of high school, I had friends that were Kandy Kids, gutter punks, hippies, Goths, stoners, Juggaloes, metalheads, and everything in between. People are people, and shouldn't be judged by their clothing, but by who they really are.  

[osozaki girl]

i don't have any friends who are goths. probably because all the 'goths' i know are into anime and techno and japanese music, which i am not.
but a few of my friends are into post-punk.
-shrug-
i don't care who i'm friends with, as long as they don't make me mad or are not tolerant of my interests.  

[Foxglow]

I'll make friends with anyone as long as they're nice. Out of 180 girls in my year at school there was only 2 of us into metal and I was more goth than she was.

Now I have one goth friend and several alternative friends, but like I say, as long as the person is cool, it doesn't really matter to me what they're into.  

[Gothic Muffin of Doom]

I don't know about you guys, but being friends with non goth (that's all my friends, I might be the only goth in my college class) has a lot of downside.
Because as long as I don't show any goth signs they are so fine with me. but if anything goth accidentally show up (which happens a lot considering that I'm goth) they start making fun of me, so somehow I ended up with no real friends,  

[The Evil Rabbit]

I don't make friends based on how others dress. I make friends based on similiar interests.

That said, in my high school days, there weren't very many other people with interests similar to mine. I had two real friends, and they were both a grade ahead of me (they would have been two years ahead, but they both got held back due to accedemic issues). The rest were much younger kids (freshman or sophmores) that I played video games with during lunch hour with our Gameboys. I was, and still am, a rather unfeminine tomboy whose interests aren't very mainstream compared to other people, especially other girls, of the same age group.