3DS XL circle pad broke? Normal or no?

I had a 3DS XL for a whole year since last Christmas and the circle pad came of while I was playing Pokémon X. I didn't do it on purpose, it just came off suddenly. I wanted to know if this is normal because I'm afraid the piece that was under it might come off too (even though I got used to using it like a regular analog stick) or something else bad might happened. Please answer this one. :'(

I looked up the solution and I knew this happen to some other people but they said it's bad and few others said that it's okay.

2014-01-09T11:40:01Z

The circle shape thing part just popped off..
That's what I mean.

?2014-01-08T10:09:26Z

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What do you mean by "the circle pad came of"?

If it literally, came off, then lol, yes it's broken .