No 'Normal' people here?
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As far as I know I'm "normal", except for an annoying sensitivity to loud sounds, but that's a really minor thing.
Yeah, but quirks are not the best indicator. Dumb people are often quirky too.xXGeckoXx said:Exactly.....ZeroMachine said:If by "normal" you mean something else, well... HELL no. No way am I normal. I'm a freakin' nerd
But intelligence and quirks tend to go hand in hand.
First and foremost, this is the Internet and the Internet (it seems) has always been home to legions of misfits and oddballs, if only because early computing and Internet tinkering was a specialists pursuit and has been generally viewed as being nerdy. I would argue that the veil of (relative) anonymity has allowed for more and more strange people to safely come out of their shells.
More importantly however, "normal" is such a relative term that to say there are few "normal" people on the Internet is pointless. Moreover, each Internet community generates it's own rules. Some are directed from site managers and enforced by admins and others become part of the social norm of each board. Hell, look at IMDb, where I am more of a regular then I am here. Boards for popular films tend to create their own communities within each one, meaning even on one single site there is no consistency. I am not really a regular here so I cannot comment on what constitutes what is "normal" or not, but maybe having some sort of issue is normal here.
For the record, I don't have any mental defects that I am aware of, though some days I think I might have ADD, but I could just be lazy.
More importantly however, "normal" is such a relative term that to say there are few "normal" people on the Internet is pointless. Moreover, each Internet community generates it's own rules. Some are directed from site managers and enforced by admins and others become part of the social norm of each board. Hell, look at IMDb, where I am more of a regular then I am here. Boards for popular films tend to create their own communities within each one, meaning even on one single site there is no consistency. I am not really a regular here so I cannot comment on what constitutes what is "normal" or not, but maybe having some sort of issue is normal here.
For the record, I don't have any mental defects that I am aware of, though some days I think I might have ADD, but I could just be lazy.
I am getting rather annoyed by the prevailing opinion that if you are intelligent, you are more likely to have a mental disorder of some variety or severity. Do you have any evidence to prove this point that is not anecdotal? I'm not saying you're lying, but whatever group of intelligent people you know is probably not large enough to be representative of most intelligent people in the world. In fact, my anecdotal evidence is quite contrary, I can think of, including myself, three intelligent people who have no disorders whatsoever.
To answer the OP, apparently I'm one of the freaks here, I'm actually normal.
To answer the OP, apparently I'm one of the freaks here, I'm actually normal.
I'm a perfectly well adjusted, intelligent human being with no ADD, OCD etc. Actually I used to worry about the fact that I've never had any self esteem issues about my appearance or anything else. Then I worried about being narcissistic. Then I decided I didn't care and I was just more rational than other teenagers.
The thing is, since the internet is anonymous people are more likely to unburden themselves and admit their problems than they are in person to people they actually know and give a shit about.
of course we're going to take it literally and what not, we're not normal peopleheadshotcatcher said:
besides normality doesn't really exist in that sense either, pretty much everyone has some form of a disorder if you dig deep enough, they just don't know it
23!InProgress said:
but i'll just say what everyone else has said, that there is no "normal". "normal" isn't terribly interesting anyway.
I am one of those few intellectual people without that mental quirk.FanofDeath said:
Or, at least I hope so...
woem said:
Touche and was waiting for someone to say this, eventhough I haven't really prepared any counter stuff to say.. But I notice the same in other topics as well..
I don't have any disorders.. but normality is a state of mind.
What is normal?
If being normal means I'm perfectly healthy with no disabilities or disorders, then.. yes.
What is normal?
If being normal means I'm perfectly healthy with no disabilities or disorders, then.. yes.
Nobody is normal. We all have our own problems and issues.
If you deny that, there's your problem.
If you deny that, there's your problem.
I don't see how everyone being imperfect is a rejection of normative traits. What's stopping some imperfections from being considered "normal"?Kruxxor said:
If you take normal to mean, "perfect as God intended," then yes, it doesn't exist. If you understand that the human mind is an imperfect collection of adaptions duct taped together, then a normal with the definition of "what is most common" can work. Which is, incidentally, what normal means.
Well, yeah. You don't get posts on a 'Brag about your worst accidents' thread saying "I stubbed my toe yesterday, and it still hurts a bit ='("sgtshock said:
People will only post what they think will interest others, and saying "I have a tiny bit of aspergers" is not that interesting
On topic, I'm close to normal, but I do have slight aspergers, in that I like patterns, numbers, logic and order, but I can still bear having a messy room.
I like to stop my food from mixing, and I don't like stepping on cracks in the pavement or only touching things with one finger, but I don't get hung up about it.
On the other hand, I can find beauty in an equation and love creating art from applying mathematical rules
To demonstrate my point, that was hardly the most gripping read, was it?