Good morning.
I’m back home. Having coffee and making the rounds and I found this, which I want to share with you!
My message is simple. There are millions of people living with neurological conditions that are simply existing; trying to fit in with a world and population where most won’t, or can’t bend their idea of normal; and at the same time, assume that normal is something everyone aspires to be. Living as someone other than your true self is my idea of torture, and that’s what most people want from us so they can feel comfortable.
I wanted to be the voice that said, “You’re damn right we aren’t normal! We’re AMAZING! We’re WACKY! We’re GENIUSES! We’re bearing millions of gifts for the world to enjoy and you can’t see that –all you seem to notice is how often we lose our keys!” To be fair, it is pretty ridiculous how often we lose our keys…and phone, and wallets, and cars, and children, but still…geniuses
==> To be fair, it is pretty ridiculous how often we lose our keys…and phone, and wallets, and cars, and children, but still… <==
Yeah, that.
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I start to find it annoying when people say they’re a little weird. Everyone says they’re a little weird, so in fact weird is normal? Like the quote a lot!
Yeah, I believe there is no such thing as “normal”. Human behaviour like any other system behaves in a Bell Curve manner.
Love it! And I’m happy to know you arrived back home safely.
Good, eh?
And thank you :)
Normal isn’t the right word – it’s average. No one is normal, but most people are average. And that’s boring.
Anyway, I stole that normal-average thing from Utah Phillips, who tells a tale about it much better than I, on one of his collaborative albums with Ani DiFranco.
yeah, that was the problem. Some people decided that average was to be the “norm”. I can see how that is useful in decision-making but those of use with training in statistics understand the concept better