Did you ever feel normal?

[Hellhound]

There's no such thing as normal. Everyone is abnormal in their own way. Some are just more abnormal than others.

 

[HappySquidward]

I remember being the same way I am now since kindergarten. The only difference is that it has gotten worse::

 

[kristina303]

I used to. But now I am normal. Thanks to Celexa.

 

[Swifty]

I simply don't know what normal is::

 

[razzle dazzle rose]

Well, even now, with all my depression and anxiety, I will have moments in which yeah, I do feel normal, and dare I even say it, happy. Part of that is that I have had depression and anxiety for so long that I have learned to live with it and it feels normal. I do have interests that I enjoy, and hopes and dreams for my future; of course, right now I am in one of those good moods...maybe tomorrow or next week I will be in the dumps again and I won't respond so cheerily. But while they last, I will enjoy these good feelings!

 

[xDreamseller]

MotherWolff felt normal as a little girl. But as MotherWolff hit puberty that's when the normalness went far, far away....

I think that's pretty much the same for me. I always felt different...just not in a bad way until puberty.

 

[GraybeardGhost]

I am normal. It's everyone else who's screwed up.

 

[kilojoule]

I want to say 'there's no such thing as normal'

but for the sake of a debate

yes, yes I do feel normal.

And it's normal to feel abnormal

I'm normally abnormal

hehehe

but actually I feel a lot more secure and level these days.

 

[Hoppy]

I am normal. It's everyone else who's screwed up.

Not everybody else, since I am also normal. (For some of the following definitions anyway.)

nor·mal (nôrml)
adj.
1. Conforming with, adhering to, or constituting a norm, standard, pattern, level, or type; typical: normal room temperature; one's normal weight; normal diplomatic relations.
2. Biology Functioning or occurring in a natural way; lacking observable abnormalities or deficiencies.
3. Abbr. n or N Chemistry
a. Designating a solution having one gram equivalent weight of solute per liter of solution.
b. Designating an aliphatic hydrocarbon having a straight and unbranched chain of carbon atoms.
4. Mathematics
a. Being at right angles; perpendicular.
b. Perpendicular to the direction of a tangent line to a curve or a tangent plane to a surface.
5.
a. Relating to or characterized by average intelligence or development.
b. Free from mental illness; sane.
n.
1. Something normal; the standard: scored close to the normal.
2. The usual or expected state, form, amount, or degree.
3.
a. Correspondence to a norm.
b. An average.
4. Mathematics A perpendicular, especially a perpendicular to a line tangent to a plane curve or to a plane tangent to a space curve.

 

[GraybeardGhost]

Not everybody else, since I am also normal. (For some of the following definitions anyway.)

b. Perpendicular to the direction of a tangent line to a curve or a tangent plane to a surface.

That's exactly what I meant. Glad I'm not the only one!

 

[spider04]

I thought I was 'normal' until in my teenage years you start to realize how not normal you are and other pointing it at you.

 

[Fighter86]

Nope never. When I was a child I had little friends. And lack of social skills as well. But now that I am an adult things became progressive worse.

 

[Foxface]

I think so, along time ago, when I was young. Since my depression around 2005, I've been feeling more and more werider and different as the years go bye.

 

[Srijita52]

No, never actually.

 

[PhantomPod]

Nope, never. I always felt like I was on the outside

 

[GarbageOfTruth]

I've been continuously becoming more and more "normal" over the years, and I'd say that right now I feel the closest to normal that I've ever been. It could just be, though, that I've learned how to make my weirdness work for me. I use a lot of humor and sarcasm regarding myself/make fun of my own strangeness. My inability to fit in is now seen more often as cute or endearing, whereas it used to be very off-putting. When I make jokes about my awkwardness or openly address the fact that I speak slowly and quietly or can't speak while looking someone in the eye, people seem to realize I'm a real human with some level of self-awareness instead of some semi-retard who's completely unaware that she's making everyone uncomfortable just by being present.

 

[Bucketbot]

I've been continuously becoming more and more "normal" over the years, and I'd say that right now I feel the closest to normal that I've ever been. It could just be, though, that I've learned how to make my weirdness work for me. I use a lot of humor and sarcasm regarding myself/make fun of my own strangeness. My inability to fit in is now seen more often as cute or endearing, whereas it used to be very off-putting. When I make jokes about my awkwardness or openly address the fact that I speak slowly and quietly or can't speak while looking someone in the eye, people seem to realize I'm a real human with some level of self-awareness instead of some semi-retard who's completely unaware that she's making everyone uncomfortable just by being present.

Good for you!

 

[mehmeh]

I always felt different from my peers even in first grade school... I was awkward, asocial and afraid of rejection even when i was kid...

 

[xxbluejay21]

Every time I try to be normal I'm painfully reminded of why I'm not.