Of course please remember that there is no wrong answer to this as it is your personal opinion and your's is your opinion and not everyone else's.
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My definition of normal is, common typical standard usually average
It is the antonym of abnormal. If it fits in unnoticed, it is probably normal. Normal people and things generally do not draw attention or disrupt things.
Statistically typical, with no inherent positive or negative connotation. (Ie: There are tons of bad things that are extremely normal.) Same with abnormal/rare/deviant/etc., in that they are simply statements of variation from the norm or a smaller chance of occurrence without any inherent positive or negative connotation.
Perpendicular to the surface
As has already been pointed out, "normal" is value-neutral; it's merely a matter of statistics.
Many people use the word "normal" when they mean "normative." That's something entirely different.
Normal: A highly uncomfortable place for me! :laugh:
I'm normal and everyone else is weird! ;)
Actually, it depends on the context. What's normal in one group might not be in another.
Good to see you around again. :)
Hugs, Devlyn
Anyone who doesn't agree with me 100% is a weirdo. Lol joking. I think it just depends on the views of each person. I find some people kind of weird but they consider themselves normal. And though I'm totally not, I know some people think I'm totally weird. My brother for one, He's told me that enough. But of course he's the weirdo, not me. Lol
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Perpendicular to the surface
This makes me laugh.
Seriously though. Normal for me is no roar from the trans beast. Being able to live and function without some knawing need to be something else. I will never be normal from a societal definition. I am an artist and I will always stick out as a weirdo. That's okay with me.
Bari Jo
How the heck should I know? I have never been any where close to normal!
Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 25, 2018, 06:16:49 AM
Normal: A highly uncomfortable place for me! :laugh:
I've been to Normal a few times! It's in Illinois and my cousin lives there!
I became normal August 2017 after 65 years of confusion. Normal for me is finally attaining an understanding of who I am and why I am and exploring the beauty of finding myself. Actually it was at Gender Odyssey when 1700 others just like me showed up. I used to think I was all alone.
Quote from: Bari Jo on January 25, 2018, 10:35:29 AM
This makes me laugh.
Hooray I'm not the only nerd! ;D
Quote from: Cassi on January 25, 2018, 02:02:57 PM
I've been to Normal a few times! It's in Illinois and my cousin lives there!
I used to go there a lot for work. Then that customer shut down the site I had to visit and shipped that problematic system to somebody else's region.
NORMal is someone who acts according to the norm, the stereotype of perfect citizen that a society has. In my society for example, a normal person is someone that has finished secondary school, is going/has been to university and has at least an important title and has a stable job. To be normal you have to listen to certain genres of music and dress with a certain fashion. You're probably made fun of if you dress differently. It shocks me how every young person that goes to a club dresses exactly the same as the others, they look like clones.
But they are normal, that's everything that matters And they are considered to have "succesfull lives" because they have a nice job, have nice clothes and a family. It doesn't really matter if that makes you happy, you have a successful life and you should be happy because of it.
Someone who is emotionally well adjusted, and happy with who they are. Someone with healthy boundaries and respect for themselves and others.
How I live now........
Currently listening to the Simon & Garfunkle song "A Most Peculiar Man". I guess he wasn't normal. ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YTgwY1Ld5s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YTgwY1Ld5s)
Quote from: I Am Jess on January 25, 2018, 02:43:40 PM
How I live now........
Boring................................
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Look close enough, and you'll see normal never really exists, it's a myth. X
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Quote from: Megan. on January 25, 2018, 03:06:32 PM
Look close enough, and you'll see normal never really exists, it's a myth. X
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Normal is a town in McLean County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town's population was 52,497.[4] Normal is the smaller of two principal municipalities of the Bloomington–Normal metropolitan area, and Illinois' seventh most populous community outside the Chicago metropolitan area. Normal's mayor is Chris Koos.
The main campus of Illinois' oldest public university, Illinois State University, a fully accredited four-year institution, is in Normal, as is Heartland Community College, a fully accredited two-year institution. There is also a satellite campus of Lincoln College, which offers associate degrees as well as four-year programs.
Quote from: Lady Lisandra on January 25, 2018, 02:39:26 PM
NORMal is someone who acts according to the norm, the stereotype of perfect citizen that a society has. In my society for example, a normal person is someone that has finished secondary school, is going/has been to university and has at least an important title and has a stable job. To be normal you have to listen to certain genres of music and dress with a certain fashion. You're probably made fun of if you dress differently. It shocks me how every young person that goes to a club dresses exactly the same as the others, they look like clones.
But they are normal, that's everything that matters And they are considered to have "succesfull lives" because they have a nice job, have nice clothes and a family. It doesn't really matter if that makes you happy, you have a successful life and you should be happy because of it.
Based on your description I should have been Normal all my life. I graduated high school, went to college for three years. Earned three times minimum wage in my first job. Spent 20 years helping manage a billion dollar company, then was hired to a 94.5 billion dollar company for 15 years. I have a wife of 35 years, own my own home, and we have 2 children and one grandchild. But underneath it all was confusion as to whom I actually was. Now I know and the good thing is that my family acknowledges it's a good thing.
The statistically average or majority.
If trans people are est. 1% or so of the world population they are not 'average' or 'normal'. The semantics of the word is unfortunate as not being normal insinuates "abnormal", but this isn't how I read it since 1% of all people is still a huge number and there's evidence to suggest trans people have been present through human history. In which case they've arisen consistently in small numbers and therefore "naturally".
Quote from: DawnOday on January 25, 2018, 03:10:28 PM
Based on your description I should have been Normal all my life. I graduated high school, went to college for three years. Earned three times minimum wage in my first job. Spent 20 years helping manage a billion dollar company, then was hired to a 94.5 billion dollar company for 15 years. I have a wife of 35 years, own my own home, and we have 2 children and one grandchild. But underneath it all was confusion as to whom I actually was. Now I know and the good thing is that my family acknowledges it's a good thing.
But it was underneath. Nobody could notice it. To the rest of the world, you were normal.
Quote from: Lady Lisandra on January 25, 2018, 04:26:49 PM
But it was underneath. Nobody could notice it. To the rest of the world, you were normal.
Oh I assure you I was not normal. I didn't speak until absolutely necessary. I've destroyed many friendly relationships because of this. It wasn't because people weren't offering. I didn't know how to feel like the authentic me. I would go home and put on a dress and some makeup and the day to day misery of being a man vanished for a few hours. I was so afraid someone would find out. At the time there were no allies. Transgender meant Transvestite. Transvestite mean sex worker. Sex worker meant someone to assault. As bad as it is now. It was worse back then.
For what?
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Quote from: Gertrude on January 25, 2018, 05:36:08 PM
For what?
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Hi Gerti! For what? ??
Hi, I'm normal, Abby Normal.
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Quote from: Deborah on January 25, 2018, 06:55:42 PM
Hi, I'm normal, Abby Normal.
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lol
Quote from: Cassi on January 25, 2018, 06:54:21 PM
Hi Gerti! For what? ??
Normal can be what most people do or are or normal can be a range of possibilities within a group or category.
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You all are just amazing. Epic Young Frankenstein reference.
To me, normal means that person is someone that refused to stray from what society wants them to be. Think of the movie Equilibrium, the idea of a "utopian" world devoid of any emotion, where black is the only accepted color. That would be a "normal" person to me. I've only met a handful of normal people ever, and that personally makes me happy. Because to me, they are strange.
By the way, I'm so far from normal that a Platypus would call me weird.
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Quote from: salaniaseviltwin on January 25, 2018, 09:20:11 PM
By the way, I'm so far from normal that a Platypus would call me weird.
Fun fact: Platypuses are venomous and their toxin is immune to the effects of morphine. How's that for normal! ;D
WTF! Those cute and strange creatures are deadly?
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Normal, that's the kitten Garfield is always trying to send to Abu Dhabi right?
Quote from: salaniaseviltwin on January 25, 2018, 10:26:00 PM
WTF! Those cute and strange creatures are deadly?
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Not deadly, just extremely painful.
Quote from: salaniaseviltwin on January 25, 2018, 10:26:00 PM
WTF! Those cute and strange creatures are deadly?
It is always safe to assume that everything in Australia will attempt to murder you in proportion to its cuteness.
Quote from: Roll on January 25, 2018, 10:43:18 PM
It is always safe to assume that everything in Australia will attempt to murder you in proportion to its cuteness.
That's the truth. I think kangaroos are totally adorable but Tristan told me they are really mean animals. And he told me those adorable koala bears are totally vicious and would shred you with their claws. Then he told me about these huge evil spiders they have there that routinely go into peoples homes and their bite can kill you if you don't get treatment right away. Note to self....Never visit Australia!
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 25, 2018, 11:01:34 PM
That's the truth. I think kangaroos are totally adorable but Tristan told me they are really mean animals. And he told me those adorable koala bears are totally vicious and would shred you with their claws. Then he told me about these huge evil spiders they have there that routinely go into peoples homes and their bite can kill you if you don't get treatment right away. Note to self....Never visit Australia!
You think that's bad, watch out for the Colorado Cupalope!
I believe if you don't stand out, if you don't get strange looks, if you don't do anything very unique with your life, if you follow popular routeing, then you are considered normal.
What determines if you do stand out, if you get the looks, if you have done something unique, or if you follow a different path is determined by the society you live in.
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I think normal is in the eye of the beholder. When it comes to asking the question "am I normal", you view your own reality and that is what is normal. When you know that you are living your existence in the best way you are able....that is normal for you. Nearly everyone is in that group, seeing through their eyes their "normal" life. Commonalities group society into separate norms, and that is a factor in all this hate seen throughout history.
And all of it, looking at it as a whole is ..........normal.
Quote from: AnamethatstartswithE on January 25, 2018, 10:32:32 PM
Normal, that's the kitten Garfield is always trying to send to Abu Dhabi right?
No, that's "Nermal".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Garfield_characters#Nermal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Garfield_characters#Nermal)
Definition: common, usual, average, typical, healthy, expected, etc.
Antonym: my life xD
Whenever I use the word "normal" in conversations with people (usually irl) they tend to berate me for using that word as though it's something bad. I never get that. For me, "normal" is neither good nor bad but a neutral word. Like when I say "I'm not entirely normal" I mean it as in that I deviate from what's generally considered typical or common, and it can be a negative thing, but most often it's something that's positive. Like I can be more artistic than what's normal, for example. A lot of people around me seem to hate that I use that word, cause they put negative connotations to it that I don't. That bothers me sometimes.
It's especially bothersome when I tell someone I think they're normal when they ask, and then they get angry at me for saying so, but it was a compliment cause I envy their normalcy and wish I could be more like them in that aspect.
I don't think of myself as normal cause nothing in my mind and life ever really makes sense to me or others. Because things about me that I'm used to are weird, shocking or unbelievable to a lot of other people. I don't relate easily to others, I always feel "off" and like I don't belong. To me, that doesn't fit my definition of normal, it's abnormal. But sometimes it's a gift and sometimes it's a burden.
a setting on the dryer?
I can tell who it's not. It ain't me babe, I say no, no, no it ain't me babe.
I think it rather weird to be discussing the term "Normal" >:-)
*Runs to hide*
Normal????? What's normal????
I may be able to point you in the right direction, what ever it is it's not me. :P
Quote from: Roll on January 25, 2018, 01:31:40 AM
Statistically typical, with no inherent positive or negative connotation. (Ie: There are tons of bad things that are extremely normal.) Same with abnormal/rare/deviant/etc., in that they are simply statements of variation from the norm or a smaller chance of occurrence without any inherent positive or negative connotation.
One can define anything anyway and call I t normal. One's personal preference is not necessarily normal.
The above definition is the most widely accepted and accurate definition is provided above, in my opinion.
Normal is boring; originality is strange.
Normal is close-minded and hateful; open-mindedness and kindness are rare.
Normal is what everyone else likes; what YOU like is what makes you interesting and unique.
Normal is the blank canvas of society, and those who deviate from the norms are its paint. Without our outcasts and weirdos, the world would be a much blander, less interesting place to live.
Strictly speaking, normal is a statistical term. "... according with, constituting, or not deviating from a norm, rule, or principle."
According to this simple, widely accepted definition, blonde hair, blue eyes is abnormal in the human population. However it is the norm in Scandinavia, (at least until recently when there has been a huge influx of African and Middle Eastern migrants.)
Similarly high intelligence or artistic affinity is a statistical abnormality. Being abnormal is not a bad thing. Neither is it necessarily a good thing.
"Normal" is what doctors say you are when they mean "below average" in some respect :D. Otherwise they say "average" or "above average". I presume that the "some respect" is still within a standard deviation of the mean, though.
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 25, 2018, 11:01:34 PM
That's the truth. I think kangaroos are totally adorable but Tristan told me they are really mean animals. And he told me those adorable koala bears are totally vicious and would shred you with their claws. Then he told me about these huge evil spiders they have there that routinely go into peoples homes and their bite can kill you if you don't get treatment right away. Note to self....Never visit Australia!
Are meanness and viciousness
normal for kangaroos and koalas? Most animals are potentially dangerous, even pet dogs. When contestants on a reality program were put in a pool with "harmless" Australian freshwater crocodiles, I commented to someone that anything with teeth will bite. He responded "Yes, and anything without teeth'll give you a damned nasty suck!"
Kangaroos do have a self defence mechanism that at one time caused them to be forced into boxing exhibitions. Koalas can attack, e.g. in the case of Mary Anne Forster. She allowed her dogs to approach a koala while it was sitting at the base of a tree. She was bitten while "protecting" her dogs from the "aggressive" koala. Look at it from the point of view of the koala, though. It is a relatively slow moving creature approached by predators descended from wolves. It must choose fight or flight, and flight was not an option. BTW I have a photo of my mother holding a koala during one of her visits to Australia.
In 2016, an Australian was bitten on the penis by spiders twice within five months. Even being bitten once on the penis in a lifetime is pretty rare. Both attacks took place in portable toilets on building sites. I can't help wondering whether some colleagues, after seeing him recovered after the first bite, had said "Hur hur hur, wouldn't it be funny if he got bitten on his %^&* again". The victim said that after the second bite, his colleagues "were making jokes before I was getting in the car". I'll bet they were.
Quote from: Julia1996 on January 25, 2018, 11:01:34 PM
That's the truth. I think kangaroos are totally adorable but Tristan told me they are really mean animals. And he told me those adorable koala bears are totally vicious and would shred you with their claws. Then he told me about these huge evil spiders they have there that routinely go into peoples homes and their bite can kill you if you don't get treatment right away. Note to self....Never visit Australia!
I suppose that "normal" is what you are used to. You seem to be put off by rumours of dangerous animals in exotic Australia.
Remember, though, that without leaving your home state of Colorado, you could encounter black bears, mountain lions, black widow spiders, brown recluse spiders, rattlesnakes and leprosy-spreading armadillos. In neighbouring Wyoming there are grizzly bears and wolves. In the southern states there are alligators and in Florida, gigantic American crocodiles. Parts of the US are known for terrifying earthquakes, blizzards and tornados, and some geologists say that Old Faithful, not all that far away from you in US terms, is part of a supervolcano that could erupt at any time and make a third of the USA uninhabitable.
You'd better move to Britain. Animal rights protesters released wild boars in the Forest of Dean but they, and the occasional cold spell, are about the only aspects of nature that could seriously hurt anyone on British dry land.
Normality seems to me to be something to not strive for. Sometimes people use it as a term for "flying under the radar" sort of thing. It sounds both arbitrary and negative to me.
Many years ago my mom met a new dating partner of mine, after pretty much not approving of previous partners for various reasons. In a family discussion, she said: " I love your new girlfriend, she is so normal it's pathetic". She meant that as positive. My sister and i burst out laughing.
My definition of "normal" is... a word other people attribute to someone who fits in with their own views of the world. Whether or not they themselves would, by someone else, be considered "normal."
Personally, I believe everyone on this planet is wonderfully, beautifully abnormal. And the better for it. ;D We're all unique. That uniqueness is what makes every single person interesting.
As my Aussie uncle says (he used to be Tyke)
"Everybody's queer but thee and me, and I'm not too sure about thee."
I used to hear other Tykes say it but they're all dead now, and my uncle was obviously right not to be sure about me. That means that he is the only surviving normal person in the world.
He's getting on, so it won't be all that long before he's gone too. That will be very sad. On the other hand, then everyone in the world will be queer! Yay!
"Normal" is agreement on the same thing . . .
even if INSANE? If unanimous who's be left to notice otherwise?
Blending in, not standing out unless I choose to.
Great question.
I am not a big fan of the word normal, because the opposite is abnormal. Everyone is normal.
I like the words "common" and "uncommon". Being transgender might be uncommon, but we are part of the diverse beauty of what it is to be human.
Karen
"What's your definition of normal?"
It ain't the same as everybody else's! :laugh:
Well whatever it is normal must be overrated. ;D
Normal is what the majority of people that share a defined set (or one characteristic) is or have. What is the normal white cell count? 1500 to 4000 per mm3. Why? Because thats what most people have without experiencing symptoms of disease, that's in the middle of the Gauss curve. What is the normal type of music that a 15 year old in Ghana listens to? No idea, but probably not Irish rebel songs. How many action figures is it normal to have? For a kid maybe 20, for an adult 0 to 2 (?). Normal just depends on what the majority does.
Normal does not equal good and abnormal.does not equal bad (it could be concerning in a medical sense and require further studies but it is not always pathological)
I thought about joining N.O.R.M.L. when I was younger... Though something tells me that organization isnt what you were asking about.
Normal is a town in Illinois near Springfield.
I guess normal people live there.
normal: a concept made up to enforce conformity and alienate those who are atypical. When questioning pro-normal people, they tend to respond to the query of 'what is normal' with silence of 'uuuugh. Yes there are typical behaviours (the need to eat, sleep) and some conventions we have in society based on empathy (not killing each other hurting or robbing each other because we wouldnt want that to happen to ourselves) but overall, many things are simply bizarre ideas we have like colours for particular sexes, interests being restricted to age, fashion sense etc.