Aug 25, 2010

Normalacy theory

I have a theory on what normality is.
When somebody thinks of a "normal person" what do they think?  Usually the guy in the cubicle living an average not-so exciting life who never does anything that would totally offend/weird out someone else.  And there is nothing wrong at all with being normal.  If there weren't a lot of people like this there wouldn't be a normal.
       Of course there's no absolute specific "normal" because everyone is different in at least some way, which means that there is room for diversity even in the ranks of normal people, thus making it not a set kind of person so much as a wall or boundary.  Being "Normal" doesn't mean absolutley the same as someone else who is also "normal"
      And then there are the "different" people (Yours truly included) These people have broken some part of the normal boundary, do something that's strange, work somewhere odd, just act ,well, not normally at times.
         Depending on whether the difference is offensive is by what word is used to describe the difference.  For instance, if someone is not so normal but everyone loves them for that fact (Take someone like Johnny Depp, you can't honestly say he's normal) they are known as "Unique" or "One of a kind".  However, if someone's difference is just that they do things for reasons no one understands except the person (Folks with Asberger's usually fall into here, though they can sometimes be the funniest people I know) these people are oftentimes calle "peculiar"  "odd"  "strange" "weird"... etc. (This is what I would call my own category, though I don't have Asberger's).  Generally, the "not normal" state still has limits on how far out one acts or anything like that

Angel food cake sounds really good right now.

         Oh, and by the way, the limits of the not-norm folks can be broken too but in order to do so, big laws are usually broken (according to this theory).

So there you go, there is a such thing as normal!
M.B.easy

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