Common reasons to claim you're weird:
1. You have impulse control problems, and want to frame this as an endearing trait.
2. You're actually a filthy normie, and need some way to feel special.
3. You're genuinely weird, and are warning people to stay away. Kind of like if you have tuberculosis.
As far as descriptive terms go, "weird" doesn't really say much about a person, anyway. Everybody's weird in some sense, normal in some sense, weird and normal in some sense, etc.
i was going to stay behind my steel plate but then someone coated it with paraffin
I'm a mix of 1 and 3. 3 never works when it needs to, for whatever reason. 1 is just, always on...
But yeah, I get the whole "wanting people to think" deal. You don't have to come here to find people who actually think... though some of the members (eyes Howl, then Crammulus, then Cain) have some posts that are straight up gold. There's enough monkeys and typewriters out there to solve the meaning of existence, but only if you can wade through all the discarded paper and feces first, to find it, and read it.
