Great Quote
Was watching an episode of House (otherwise known as the best show in years) tonight that I hadn't seen since it initially aired. I remember it for having what I consider to be a very precise and insightful quote from House on the way that normal people react to what is abnormal. Having gotten the exact wording again, I'm recording it here so that
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I do agree, normal is a matter of perception, its not a solid and unchangeable reality. Normal is whatever the majority says that it is, and its not the same as it was fifty years ago and it will probably be different fifty years in the future. It does alter slightly depending on where you are (including within subcultures, many of whom I don't think differ from the mainstream as much as they think they do), though I do think a sort of baseline "normal" can probably be discerned, a few key points most people will agree on.
But I'm one of those people *no one* considers to be normal, and who grew around skinny socially privileged white people that tried to bring me into their circle through that exact same process. My having survived that process with all my abnormality intact is one of the defining events of my life. And since I have to hear about how fucking weird I am wherever I go, normalcy is a much more important (and fascinating) subject for me than it often is for others. :-)
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