Normal, Normal, Normal, Normal. What is it?

there simply is no normal

Each person will have their own ideas of what is normal. In general what is considered to be "normal" is something that is generally accepted by the majority individuals in a society. What is normal in one society or country might be considered abnormal in another society or country. It looks like most of the answers to this question have been around for the last 7 years and the asker has not picked one. That could easily be considered as not normal.

What you see on average, is what's normal. Example: if you see a person hiccuping that usually normal but if its nonstop for days or months, that's most likely not normal. Also if a person was born with something like six fingers on each hand may not seem normal to us but it is normal to that person. So sometimes it's an individual thing that no one else will understand.

iI you really want a sociological answer then look up Foucault's work for his influential argument on how the the 'normal/ pathological' dyad replaced the evil/good dyad to become the focal point of governance in the dispersed discourses of power in the early 19th century.

'Normalisation' is the central way we are governed and govern ourselves and others.

This mode of social control, introduced first in the newly medicalised discourses of the new modern insitutions of the teaching hospital, the panopticon prisons and the mental asylum , was based no longer on the torture of the body but on the detailed control and surveillance of the body of the person needing reformation. This reformative discourse was then dispersed through schools factories, welfare and health programmes right into the private sphere of the family and ,even deeper, into our own consciousnesses So we became constant 'on the ground' surveillance officers dominating each other, and our own, behaviour by the key judgement 'are you behaving normally or pathologically?'

This is such a powerful way of speaking and thinking that we locked people, especially women, away for years if they did not conform to the 'normal' way that women should act. (see ref 2 below)

So using Foucault, 'normal, normal normal ' is our dispersed and ongoing form of subjugation.

Paradoxically though Foucault points out that this is also a positive In being subjected to normalisation, we create our subjectivites or 'selves 'through 'it. Whether we conform to, or (for example in yours and in Foucault's own case,) resist the discourse ...... ... either way .... we are still subjected to, and by, it.

"Normal" is a description for how society expects one to behave. I personally believe that "normal" seeming people are actually crazy/scared of not being accepted/fearful of being themselves because NO ONE actually fits the definition.

There is nothing wrong with being yourself! Continue to be you regardless of what your peers say. They probably secretly wish they could be just like you and not care what others think. Normal is boring. Period.

nor⋅mal

  /ˈnɔrməl/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [nawr-muhl] Show IPA

–adjective

1. conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.

2. serving to establish a standard.

3. Psychology.

a. approximately average in any psychological trait, as intelligence, personality, or emotional adjustment.

b. free from any mental disorder; sane.

4. Biology, Medicine/Medical.

a. free from any infection or other form of disease or malformation, or from experimental therapy or manipulation.

b. of natural occurrence.

5. Mathematics.

a. being at right angles, as a line; perpendicular.

b. of the nature of or pertaining to a mathematical normal.

c. (of an orthogonal system of real functions) defined so that the integral of the square of the absolute value of any function is 1.

d. (of a topological space) having the property that corresponding to every pair of disjoint closed sets are two disjoint open sets, each containing one of the closed sets.

e. (of a subgroup) having the property that the same set of elements results when all the elements of the subgroup are operated on consistently on the left and consistently on the right by any element of the group; invariant.

6. Chemistry.

a. (of a solution) containing one equivalent weight of the constituent in question in one liter of solution.

b. pertaining to an aliphatic hydrocarbon having a straight unbranched carbon chain, each carbon atom of which is joined to no more than two other carbon atoms.

c. of or pertaining to a neutral salt in which any replaceable hydroxyl groups or hydrogen atoms have been replaced by other groups or atoms, as sodium sulfate, Na2SO4.

–noun

7. the average or mean: Production may fall below normal.

8. the standard or type.

9. Mathematics.

a. a perpendicular line or plane, esp. one perpendicular to a tangent line of a curve, or a tangent plane of a surface, at the point of contact.

b. the portion of this perpendicular line included between its point of contact with the curve and the x-axis.

Origin:

1520–30; < L normālis made according to a carpenter's square, equiv. to norm(a) (see norm ) + -ālis -al 1

Related forms:

nor⋅mal⋅i⋅ty, nor⋅mal⋅ness, noun

Hope this is educational...

Normal is what feels good. Your comfort zone.Those people and things that make it comfortable for you to be. These are good, moderate ways and means, and the position people want to be in.

truthfully there is actually any such thing as normal

but people stereotype normal as things mopst people would do, and etiquette

normal is like chosing to love a human rather than a monster

- like no being crazy or hyper, just sane and boring - mundane.

iunno..

I just believe there is no such thing as normal.

Normal is a majority.

You can plug in the world "majority" whereever "normal" is a lot of times.

No normal, just normal for you, and within the accepted basic standards of society.

No one likes a thief, murderer, or cheater.

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