Dear People... It's a crucial question for me actually, bacause I'm discovering that I'm august, but I don't know, in fact, if I'm accepting it or not...

Recently I had an exercise in my course where I didn't respect the pickering order 'cause I going out from the clown (they pinched my emotional crawling) and after it I'm feeling the worst person and clown in the earth...

How can I accept it, bacause somethings on august clown is so hard to me (like sometimes lose the game... and obay somebody..)

I hope that you understand me, and sorry about my poor english...

Picaburu

Okay I hope I get this to come out right!

Me being a newbie clown, this is my feelings...

I have already long ago accepted the "clown" in me. I discovered that I was a funny person (always making people laugh, being quick witted, telling and writing stories since I was 5 years old) years ago. But then I have to also accept the person aside from the clown, me the serious person who is the first person in a serious predictament to take charge and be calm. I hope that makes sense aside from sounding like i've got a personality disorder lol!

I think once you accept "yourself" your real person outside your "clown" then it will be easier to accept the clown in you.

After 2 days of long research and realizing actually who the clown in me is, I'm most certain that I'm am an Auguste too!

I hope this made sense!

Panetta

I always figured that by being a clown I saved a bundle in therapy sessions. Groucho Marx sais it best. "Clowns work like asprin, only faster."

A side note. This pecking order has more or less gone by the wayside. I consider it a general guideline If two whitefaces are doing a skit, then natuarally, one has to be the fall guy. Same with the other types.

Good luck!

Another Newbie opinion. Do you have most of the August traits?
I feel as I have more in common with august than with a white face. So in my humble opinion go with what feels right, as Scruffy said the lines appear to have blurred somewhat.

Keep the faith.

The clown types and their interactions are only guidelines. When starting out it can be a good discipline to stay within them, but never try to force something that is unatural to you. Clowning should be first and formost fun for you. If clowning is not fun then you will be better off doing something different. If it is fun for you then enjoy exploring your inner clown. Most comments and tutorials are peoples opinions so treat them as such. Pick an choose what fits for you.

Absotivaly, Posolutely !

I think once you accept "yourself" your real person outside your "clown" then it will be easier to accept the clown in you.

Panetta

In fact, I'm percepting each every day... And thanks for all of us to help me in continue this beautiful journey... Recently, I had started to try to accept myself and improve my clown... I won't give up never of been a clown

Picaburu

How you feel about yourself is magnified in you clown personality. Sometimes it is inverted and magnified and other time just magnified. If you love yourself, your capacity to love others increases (I'm not talking of the selfish type of self love but the self respecting kind). Likewise with the ability to play and generate laughter. If you are not confident and happy in yourself, you cannot truly be able to laugh at your own failings and humaness.

To be a true clown we need to understand and accept our human failings, love ourselves and or fellow humans and allow ourselves to be vulnerable by exposing our weakness through our clown characters. Some clowns invert their failings and others show themselves as they are, but all good clowns deliberately magnify something of their own characters.

The true magic of the clown is that he/she is a larger than life charicature of us all. We laugh at the clowns antics, drop our guard and gradually realise we are actually laughing at ourselves.

Having worked white a white face quite often we find the so called pecking order hinders us
so we forget about it and do what is the is the best for us sometimes hes the fall guy and sometimes its me whatever works out the best

I think my parents should have put August as my birth name, because I'm an Aguiste all the way...

My alter ego, as parent, as mentor to others in the workplace, as a volunteer among the other adults at my daughter's school, has to usually take what some might call the high road. That of the calm, seroius, mature, well adjusted adult....

As BIPS I don't have to be right either for my benefit or anyone elses. I don't have to worry about making a silly mistake or having an accident. In fact, in more ways every day, BIPS is who am becoming. Maybe what Freud would have called my "ID"? I feel better about things going wrong, or mistakes made, because now I can laugh about it, and always find a potential skit through learning things about life each day.

I just kind of gravitated towards the Auguste clown when I read the definitions, originally. Now, I realize that I was Auguste all the way! It just fits my personality. I love to kid around and just be goofy. Being a clown lets me do that without being sent to the psych ward. Haha.
:lol: Jubilee