normal Aimee Who am I to say what's normal. No one truly knows what normal is. We call each other freaks because they're different, at least to you, but maybe that person is the definition of normal. Maybe my oddities make me normal, or your long black hair and goth clothes make you normal. Maybe my long skirts and tank tops with my flower crowns make me normal... what if there is no normal... what if it was just made up to make humanity feel safe 010730 ... cazzi "everybody is strange, because there's no such thing as normal" 010730 ... hh who is normal? 020410 ... pilgrim The center line Of the Mediocrity Highway Running out through the Badlands East of Ennui. 020411 ... apoeticmisfit there is no such thing as normal! everything is strange...but if everything is strange, then being strange is normal...but since there no normal, then nothing can be strange. so where are we left then? 020711 ... i wish it wasnt so define it in terms that actually apply to people...... i dare you........ and then tell me how many people actually fit into it....... i bet you cannot do it....... 020730 ... colorful goth normal is a plastic word, it isn't true. normal doesn't live. 041111 ... slothisily be_normal 041111 ... kyla Every society has cultural norms. In this sense, there is "such a thing"; people do "truly know what normal is"; normalcy "lives" and can, indeed, be defined. And, yes, individuals can be recognized by their differences from the typical. Ostracism based on this recognition is often regrettable--but is also observable within every society. It is behaviour observable throughout most of the mammalian world. The constituents of normalcy are mutable. But the existence of it is not. Hmm. Don't beat up on innocent words? 041112 ... skyburst "normal is boring" "boring is normal" 041112 ... unhinged i have never fit in but thankfully my father was somewhat rebellious and raised us with all kinds of dad aphorisms like: 'weird is different...and different is good.' when i actually took his words to heart, he couldn't understand half the time where i was coming from...oh dad. even when i was clearly my own little world between my ears, i was still listening. 210824 ... kerry has always meant "blah" or "bland" to me. i grew up on pete&pete and daria and ren&stimpy, the classics. sympathy for the outsider. desire to be a little weird. 210824 ... unhinged the 90s was a magical decade to be a weird kid i also loved daria (my current pair of glasses is very daria, shape and color close enough for my brother to point it out. i never noticed until he mentioned it.) the original nick toons were also bomb. invader zim was one of the rare cartoons me and my brother could agree on. 210824 ... raze tom wilkinson just died. most people probably know him from "the full monty" or "michael clayton". he was great in everything i ever saw him in. he and sissy spacek both gave shattering performances in todd field's "in the bedroom". but this is the movie that always comes to mind when i think of him. it's worth seeking out if you haven't seen it. 231230 what's it to you? who go blather from