[header] How to be eccentric or eclectic as a teen [title] Understand what being an eccentric actually is. [step] " eccentric " literally means off center. Most eccentrics know very early on that they are somehow different from other people. 
If you are not an eccentric person naturally, trying to follow these might make you come off as a poser. Eccentrics do their own thing, think their own way and don't give a crap about the criticism or flattery of others.