By my definition Normal is : Anyone displaying a reasonably common personality type, and a history or current action in life that could be reasonably found in a medium to large percentage of the societal group you live in.
By my definition the following list are some of the very things that makes you normal.
1. You have been abused by someone, in some way.
2. Other people consider you "weird"
3. You are paranoid
4. You consider yourself to be of above average intelligence and/or creativtity.
5. You think of yourself as "abnormal".
6. You are socially awkward in some way ie sexually, communication, behavior, or sense of style.
There are loads of other things I could list that most people consider makes them "abnormal" but, I think this list knocks about 95% of the posters claiming to be "abnormal" off their high horse.
I have met plenty of people in life who go around happily thinking they are somehow special. The sad truth is you are probably not. I have met about 10 truly unique people in my life, and that is out of somewhere in the range of one million people. So, by those odds, there is only a few truly unique individuals who ever come to this website.
Just to burst the bubble of some of you, let me say this. The more you try to seperate yourself from what you think is normal via sense of style, the more normal you become. Goths, people who dye their hair in bright or unnaturally vibrant colors, and others in a similar vein, YOU are the most normal out of all of us. Quite frankly, I find it rather sad and pathetic. The truly abnormal person doesn't try to stand out. If anything, they try to fit in with the world around them.
A certain amount of truth can be said in that we are all unique. But, when talking in the broader terms I listed in my definition, you quickly realize that there are so many normal people, it's not even funny.
I believe that I am unique. More so than most, and let me explain why. By my own definition, I fall outside of my own self proclaimed range of normal. The reason is not that there is one thing that somehow makes me special, but rather, an unlikely combination of things. These things keep me from being listed in my own definition, because they cannot be found in other people, in medium-large groups, in the society I live in. My list is merely to disway those who would use the list as an excuse to proclaim that they are abnormal. The more items on the list that apply to you, the less abnormal you are. Just my thoughts on the subject.
