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What is sane... And normal? Is there such thing as either?
My friend and I can't figure out why we attract all these weirdos and then we were trying to figure out if we were weirdos or if we are sane... Could they be the sane ones? So I am asking What is sane... And normal? Is there such thing as either?
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Logically, probably you attract "people", and a lot of people are weirdos, so it's just a spurious correlation.
Even professionally, "normal" is still a dryer setting, and "sane" is a legal designation that takes a lot to overturn -- and is nowhere in psychology or psychiatry.
Sturgeons' Law, as quoted by author Robert Heinlein: "90% of everything is [crap]". You probably just attract a lot of people, and statistics/ probability take care of the rest.
Good thing: You recognize "Weirdo", and thus may not end up in a disartrous or irredeemable situations.
Source(s): Doctor of psychology and human being - 1 decade ago
Sanity is all relative. Sure, society has set certain standards to what the general public believes to be "normal". However, at the end of the day the line of sanity can weir off to the right or left. I would say you guys are all "normal" and "sane", but just not on the same wavelength. So keep searching!
