What are the parameters of normal? What makes something normal? What makes something abnormal? There isn’t a set scale or a line that one passes in order to accomplish normality. There isn’t a bar that is exceeded in order to be abnormal. There is no clear way to distinguish between normal and abnormal. It’s all about perception, it’s all about how you see normal, because your normal may be completely different from someone else’s. Normal is an abstract term that I have grown to detest. The phrase “that’s not normal,” was thrown around so much in my childhood that I assumed there was something wrong with me- that I was abnormal. However, I am not. My eccentric ways and my squirrely thoughts are normal to me. Laying down and listening to music …show more content…
The first time she found out I was smoking weed, she was so upset. But why? To me, it wasn’t a big deal. Seeing as I smoked weed on a daily basis and I used it more like a medicine than I did a drug. I didn’t see how it could be abnormal to someone. My mother grew up in a period of time where things like weed and other drugs were heavily frowned upon. These things are still looked down upon today, but people are a lot more accepting and understanding of the benefits that cannabis has on a person’s mental and physical health. My brother’s definition of normal include sitting in front of a computer screen for multiple hours day, tapping away at a keyboard an screaming profanities into a microphone. That isn’t normal for me in the slightest, yet for him, playing video games nonstop is a regular and normal part of his life. Due to his consistent gaming, he has developed an aggressive and almost mean demeanor that I am not very fond of, but one that he has become accustomed to. It’s his normal. There is no way to put boundaries on the definition of normal. Normal is how you perceive things, it’s what you feel the most comfortable doing. There should be no shaming against someone do to their ‘abnormalities’ when at the end of the day, our normal might be someone else’s