No 'Normal' people here?

[Fireyredmullet]

Idk if I'm normal, but nothing seriously wrong comes to mind.

Cept the Herpes.

 

[Hiram88]

As the first reply reads, Escapist forums are filled with the best of the internet. That means we have people who can help you with a first date, or make your girlfriend shut up, or fight assault charges, or skip bail, or how to find your ex-girlfriends house, or how to buy a gun off the record, or how to avoid leaving DNA evidence at the crime scene, or how to hide the body, or how to go to mexico and start fresh.

Think of it this way: The original NES games were "perfect" in the sense that they were almost always bug-free. Now, games like Fallout 3 are filled with bugs, but are much grander in scale and enjoyability. "Normies" are the nes games, and people with above room temperature IQ's are fallout 3.

 

[PhantomCritic]

The internet is like the show Big Brother, there are always irregular people on it and there are few "normal people" as you you put it on the internet too, but i mean come on, this is the kind of thread that is asking for people who overreact to anything and post anger posts here, that aside, i wouldn't say nearly everyone here is irregular

 

[InProgress]

First off, 'normal' has absolutely no meaning as people can't be classified into normal and abnomral (unless you have some sort of mutation like 3 arms ar some superpowers, but let's not go into that right now). Each person has his/her own definition of 'normal'.

OT: I don't fit in your definition of normal. I OCD with numbers: always has to end in 5 or 0.

You post count must really drive you crazy, then.
What with it ending in a six.

Well, I sorta exchanged it for another one. It's still bothering me, but it doesn't bother me as much as stepping on the white tiles when walking on a street which has black and white tiles.

 

[timmytom1]

I`m perfectly normal,that red stain is just ...............Wine yeah i accidentally spilled about 8 bottles of wine and now it won`t come out

 

[RanD00M]

There is no such thing as normal.

 

[megapenguinx]

I consider myself normal....well except for a few minor quirks here and there

 

[Gadzooks]

Who wants to be normal? Normal is synonymous with boring to a lot of people.

Besides, secretly most people are not "normal" - some just hide it quite well.

I have plenty of friends who other people believe are perfectly normal when they are brought into conversation, but in knowing them well, I know this to be untrue in the sense that everyone is flawed or different in some manner and these friends all have quirks in their own unique way that no one but their close friends would know about.

I believe almost everyone appears normal until you get to know them, and start noticing the bloodstained clothes they are burning in their fireplace and the lampshade made of skin in their dungeon.

 

[dontworryaboutit]

If none of us are normal, then all of us are normal.

OH GODDDDDDD

 

[KeyMaster45]

Everyone is crazy in their own right, those of us with very very boring live decide that we are crazy so as to spice up our lives and have an excuse for when we become bored enough to do stupid things.

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

This thread is void. There is no such thing as "normal". You, yourself have problems and quirks. Some peoples problems are more publicised than others. You're just as messed up as the rest of us.

I don't see how everyone being imperfect is a rejection of normative traits. What's stopping some imperfections from being considered "normal"?

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.

Excellent post, although I'll add to the nitpickery by asking you to define "perfect as God intended". How do you know we are not already? Perhaps this is the best of all possible worlds and poverty, starvation, terror, murder, etc. are all within the scope of our own perfect natures.

The flaws I'm talking about aren't so much about sins and vices. Rather... gaps in human consciousness.

Daniel Dennett talks about it a bit here. If you didn't already know, I like his TED talks. http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_on_our_consciousness.html

 

[Tech Team FTW!]

I'm certainly not normal...

Wait...
What are we meant to be discussing here?

Geez, do I have to spell it out for you? ' <- Means something is not to be taken (entirely) literally.

Ok, now you have basically said that you are meant to interpret it a very specific way.
Spell it out for me.

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

Also, on a similar note, you may want to look into synesthesia if you haven't already.

I'm all too familiar. An ex girlfriend had that quirk.

Out of all the non-normative mental traits, that one seems the most fun.

 

[Mockingjay]

I am a so called 'normal person'.

 

[Mockingjay]

Oh and please, people are not their disorders. They are people with disorders and are 'normal'

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

I'm "normal". Although I do have a light case of asthma.

 

[Oneirius]

Mental disorders of all kinds are very common among people with a high IQ.(I study in one of those "gifted kids" classes. *Everybody* has some major fucks)

So I guess it's because the people of post on The Escapist are simply more intelligent then average.

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

Also, on a similar note, you may want to look into synesthesia if you haven't already.

I'm all too familiar. An ex girlfriend had that quirk.

Out of all the non-normative mental traits, that one seems the most fun.

What kind?

Uh, touch to visual.

 

[ae86gamer]

I think I'm 'normal', at least health wise. I'm not allergic to anything, or have any disorder or health problems that effect me.

 

[goatzilla8463]

I'm abnormally good looking.