Normal
Normal is what everyone else is and you are not. Normal is what you want to be and fail. Other times normal is what you don't want to be, here you also fail.
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“”Normal is the average of deviance. |
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Since "normal" exists within certain ranges (usually one statistical standard deviation away), it would be highly abnormal for someone to be normal in more ways than a certain statistical percentage.
Is it normal to have hair on that part of your body? Is it normal to think these thoughts?
Confused about your identity and normality yet? Then this article can be considered to have done its job. You are probably more normal than you think, yet at the same time, more abnormal than you think.
Mathematics
Mathematically, you are quite normal if you live at right angles to everything.
gollark: Not just "chemistry would be slightly different" or something.
gollark: To some extent, sure, but I think some of it is "if this physical constant was wrong stars wouldn't work" and such.
gollark: Complete omnipotence is logically incoherent anyway.
gollark: Ongoing memetics campaigns.
gollark: Some things are apparently quite precisely tuned for human life, but that doesn't say anything because if they were not precisely tuned for human life there would be no human life observing that they are precisely tuned for human life.
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