I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

The remark contrasts a youthful impulse to label unconventional behavior as “weird” with a later, more tolerant perspective that treats such labeling as the real social oddity. It suggests that “weirdness” is often a judgment imposed by conformity rather than an inherent quality of the person being judged. The quote also critiques the policing of norms: calling someone weird can be a way to enforce sameness and marginalize difference. Inverting the label (“the people that call others weird…”) reframes eccentricity as harmless and intolerance as the more troubling deviation, encouraging openness to experimentation, individuality, and nonstandard ways of living.