I can't imagine you any other way. I remember you were in "normal" mode when you went out to work once when I was there, and you seemed much more reserved/ less approachable than when you are being alternative-y (mm, yes, vocabulary clearly not improving post-midnight). So no, I'd say you do the opposite of using alternativeness (another blinder of a word, there) to repel people.

I saw the same programme, and I rather suspect that it was more a case of being surrounded by singularly closed-minded and unimaginative types than her purposefully repelling evryone by being "weird".

I will go before I commit any other crimes against the English language :p