Fitting In

At what age do we start to want to fit in, and why?
Do we start caring, from child hood?

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.