Normality delusion (n.)

The mistaken belief that there is any such thing as ‘normal’, that there are such entities as ‘normal people’, and that, all other things being equal, ‘normality’ will be somehow be resumed any day now, to which the answer is invariably: forget it, it's never going to happen.

It is of course perfectly natural to assume that other people are more normal than oneself, but in truth, it is in completely normal to be entirely different to everybody else. Anything else is in fact the complete antithesis of normal (i.e. freakish), and this being the case, we would all be 5'7" tall, with brown hair, blue eyes, a stable and secure job and loving personal relationship, a Renault Espace, a cat, half a dog and 2.4 children, and how boring would that be?

Posted on Saturday - May 07, 2005 at 02:10 PM

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Normality delusion (n.)

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