Definition of normal....your opinions?

Normal is a word used to cover a broad range. Boundaries to that range are not set in stone. I realize that is not exact and somehow I can live with it. You can remove the word but you cannot remove the need for it so it will come right back. There is a need for the word therefore it is.

There are other words as well such as in "general" people have a wide variety or range of beliefs and even if they identify as having one belief it is a general term that covers all the many variations that are simply inescapable when human beings are involved. This is in fact normal because I am referring to human beings. If the range of variety decreases or increases it is still normal because....
 
goodonya said:
Normal is a word used to cover a broad range. Boundaries to that range are not set in stone. I realize that is not exact and somehow I can live with it. You can remove the word but you cannot remove the need for it so it will come right back. There is a need for the word therefore it is.

There are other words as well such as in "general" people have a wide variety or range of beliefs and even if they identify as having one belief it is a general term that covers all the many variations that are simply inescapable when human beings are involved. This is in fact normal because I am referring to human beings. If the range of variety decreases or increases it is still normal because....
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Yeah, and another word used similarly in the legal profession is "reasonable".....
 
Really thought I had a perfectly "normal" neighbor...altho' she does drink a little too much....one day, she had drunk too much it seemed...and became a motor mouth...told me she was a phycho freak...took a lot of meds...so of course I was 'wondering' about her alcohol intake....

She said she would trim my doggie's nails for me next time....I said really?...why thank you....then the next moment she said:........
"Just don't piss me off!".....One minute she seems 'fine'...the next....:eek3:
 
I was part of the movement years ago to mainstream disabled and change people's attitudes. It's considered ableist to say stuff like wheelchair bound, because no one is. Ableism is a form of discrimination and social prejudice, and it minimizes people and it minimizes their abilities. It's like calling a blind person a blink. It's like calling us deaf and dumb. It really is just as bad.

I once read an article describing a kid with CP as wheelchair bound, and there he is, sitting in his recliner playing with his iPad. Ridiculous.
 
Seems to me like he came to a paranoid assumption about use of the word normal expressed in this context as offending? Based on the other person's reasoning, I know what he was trying to say, but he has a limited extent in choice of words and could only come up with normal instead of more specific descriptives like hearing, not deaf, etc. I would not waste time on a word and would have asked the girl about her stares. Using a site where anyone can reply, you've got to accept the chance of a questionable commsnt being posted.
 
"Normal" is a useless term. It's pretty much whatever works for a person. So long as they aren't harming another living being/creature....who cares? The assholes who run "mainstream" society would love to put everyone in the same mold. Facebook is douche-y. I cancelled my account years ago.
 
It is normal for people to be human. Not so normal if a person is not human. Might be kind of tough to get a drivers license but there is probably a way.
 
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