What does being an acquired taste mean to YOU?

 I forget who it was that told me I'm an acquired taste. Maybe it was a few people.

If they meant it in any sort of general sense, then it's not true. It's not true of anyone. It's also, in that case, the opposite of kind and the opposite of necessary. Every last one of us either have already met, or will meet, someone who never had to acquire a taste for them because they already had it... they already loved, appreciated, and saw as essential what and who and how and why that person really is. It's a lot of societies... any and every society that has a general hierarchy to it... that devalues the type of person that the higher-ups in it are not, in order to promote themselves as superior and who everyone wants to be... as the one that should therefore stay in power... and their products promising to make the lower-downs more like the higher-ups if they buy them.

Did they mean that I'm hard to get to know, get to trust, or get along with? No one is universally that way. No one should ever have to believe the lie that they have to force-- in other words, fake-- being a certain way in order to be loved, liked, left alone, supported, respected, admired, validated, or helped by anyone at all in the universe. That no one would or could or should ever love the real them.

Did they mean that this society just doesn't value my style of outward presentation?

Did they mean that I was some sort of unusual person? No one is. No one is too low down or different or high and mighty to have a type. As in, a soul family. I don't mean stereotypes or typecasting.

Did they mean all of the above?