What is normal?

Being yourself is normal. Only living your life to please other people and not standing up for what you believe in is not normal.

Normal is this horribly elusive word we try to find a good definition for. But if I’m what’s normal, the person next to me isn’t. If they’re normal, I’m not.

Normal is us wanting to all be connected some way, so we reach for the easiest way: all being similar. If we’re all normal, then we’re all similar, all on common ground together. And that’s a comfortable feeling.

Normal is something I sometimes long for.
Normal is something I sometimes run from.

I find that the closer I look at the world, at any part of it, the more weird it looks it looks to me. Have you ever just sat down and looked at your hand? Really looked? How about your ear? I had a drawing project where I had to draw a bunch of ears. They’re so weird! Everything’s so weird. How can we honestly even try to call any of it normal?
But we do, because we want to be normal ourselves, beacuse we’re told normal is a good thing to be.

To me, normal means conforming to or being defined by what most human beings accept and practice in their everyday world and lives. If what I see and do is congruent to these standards, then that is normal to me. But one person’s normality is not necessarily another person’s definition of normality. But if that other person’s definition of normality is far less than my definition which abides by the majority’s, then I can say that that person’s “normality” is abnormal, which technically, it is, because it is atypical.

Normality shouldn’t be confused with naturalness. For example, to me, homosexuality is a natural thing, but it is not a normal thing. People are born gay, and homosexuality occurs in nature. But numerically, it is less common than heterosexuality. Therefore it is abnormal (abnormal not in the negative sense of the word, but uncommon).

Normal means what the average person does on a regular basis like sleeping , eating, activities, etc. Normal is what the weather has always done in winter like snowing in Canada. That’s normal.
Cruiser, I think you know what normal means. LOL !

Normal is assigned by society. Societal norms. Just because it is assigned does not mean that we, as individuals, have to buy into it.

Normal is that which is considered by the wider community as being acceptable and commonplace. Being normal is conforming to those standards for your own community.

Normal is boring, at least according to the 7-Up guy.

I think just about everything is normal, even that which is considered otherwise by social norms.

Normal is a statistical concept. It is the average score on any scale you care to measure it on.

If humans had, like, three dimensions to them, say height, weight and gender, and that is the only way we differed, we could establish a normal.

But we aren’t. We have thousands of traits that people notice. Because we all vary on all of these measures, there is no way to establish a complete human “normal.” It really doesn’t exist. The variation on these measures is so large that we can’t ever define normal.

So no one is normal. Unless we are looking at one trait, such as height. Many traits can’t even be measured with any precision, like friendliness.

Normal don’t exist, except in the minds of statisticians, who know what it really means, or more importantly, what it doesn’t mean. All others should not be playing with the concept. It makes people think there is such a thing, which is not helpful.

Well, let’s see. Crusier is NOT normal, and I am. Does that work? :)

@Dutchess_III No. That’s not normal. Try again.

LOL!

This

2000 lurve for @Dutchess_III…I was really worried there that the rumors were real!!

@lucillelucillelucille Hardly normal at all…that is warped and frankly frightening! The sooner you get centered along the lines of this the better! ;)

@Cruiser -XD I’m not that lonely

Normal is a setting on the washing machine, that’s what I have heard (and believe).

I am beginning to feel there is hope for me surrounded by so many “normal” jellies!

@rooeytoo….hold on tight for that spin cycle! ;)

I don’t see how anyone who calls them self a “jelly” could be considered “normal”. Why don’t we call ourselves “peanut butter” like normal people would!

@Cruiser – yo dude, the spin is the best part!!!

@Dutchess_III – :-) ga

@Paradox Ironically, normal is to follow a norm. A norm is any rule, guide, law, or tradition set by you, your spouse, your family, your culture, your government, your religion, or any institution requiring conformity. So, normal is “living your life to please other people and not standing up for what you believe in” sometimes, where other times it isn’t. However, to not be normal is to be perfect in a sense. Perfection is simply having all the characteristics or qualities one has without conformity. Changing would require normalcy and a different form of imperfection…sometimes imitation.

Who the hell was impostering me when I wrote my last post! That makes NO sense!! :)

I blame sunshine, my dear. Too damn much sunshine! ;-)

Yes! That’s it @wundayatta! Thank you for rescuing my reputation! ♥