I question the whole concept of normal.

Growing up and well into adulthood, everyone -- parents, teachers, friends -- thought I was kind of weird. Strange anti-social girl. Weird, weird, weird. Wasn't like anyone else, and didn't give a crap that I wasn't. Scary. A lot of them thought I was scary.

Truth be told, I thought I was normal and everyone else was really illogical and bizarre. To me, people defining themselves according to other's illogical standards was way too strange to even remotely comprehend. I mean, people who had no idea who they were, were defining themselves according to other people who had no idea who they were? And they called ME weird???

I'm logical, more so than most. I'm way-tres centered. I'm not like anyone else. And I consider myself "normal".

And I still think most everyone else is kinda weird, but I'm mellowing out in my old age and really don't give a crap about that either.

At some level, most of us are normal. At some level, most of us are weird.

I think if we are loving and "functional" according to how we want to function, that should be good enough.