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fatty:
Adam raises a good point, is being well-adjusted the "norm"? Because frankly, it seems natural for a lot of people my age to be 'ill-adjusted' around work/uni/social life, school and study, family and responsibility and shit like that.

Papersatan:
I don't believe in time.  No, seriously.  My feelings towards time are comparable to someone realizing they don't believe in the religion they were raised on.  I always took it for granted because it is such a part of all of our lives, and then I realized one day that it is all made up, and I don't believe in it.  As far as having different views than other people, being 'weird' or what ever, I've always thought I was on the normal side of things, just with pink hair.  I'm passionate about the modernist ideas about language, but I'm a Lit major, that's still within the realm of normal.  When I started to try to tell people about my thoughts on time though I realized that no one really shares my views. 

BrittanyMarie:
I don't think I'm on the fringes of society by any means, but I have had vastly different experiences than most of my peers. I won't go into specifics, but I have witnessed Stuff that really no one should have to see. Many other people have seen and had to go through much worse, but it's still something that I have had to deal with.

I think that maybe because of that experience, I do things and think things that are way out of the norm. Apparently everywhere else it's normal to rarely see your extended family, and you never look forward to it. Mine is apparently exceptionally close. I don't know if that has to do with the incident or if maybe it's a regional thing.

My thought processes confuse everyone else. I tend to think in a weird way, I guess? It's rarely anything actually insightful, but the rationale I use to solve a problem makes sense to me and ... pretty much only me.

I guess I do have some pretty radical views on certain things (I think I freak the crap out of my co-intern because I think death is a positive thing in the most general sense, more so because I'm the exact opposite of what you'd call "morbid") but I don't think that's really what you're going for with this question.

Though really, I am probably much more "normal" than I think I am; everyone is a little fucked up in their own way, and it's hard for me to compare myself and my peers who are also who I would classify as deviates from a whole heck of a lot of norms to what I would consider to be a "normal" person, because I tend to stick to certain places and people that are admittedly a little "out there". I don't have enough experience with "normal" people to know how I really compare to them; especially since I have this tendency to lump people together (ie: the "type" of person who buys clothes from, say, American Eagle or Aeropostale or something I guess. Those are the people I view as normals and I am admittedly kind of biased against them and don't hang out with them even though really I'm sure there are a bunch who aren't boring and don't suck)

ackblom12:
I recently paid someone to use a scalpel and split my tongue.




In all honestly, I'm probably in the "Fringe" category. I'm incredibly different from most of the family in practically every way possible and I Imagine I must have been a very confusing child for my parents to raise. On the other hand I think i came out pretty well adjusted, depending on your definition, if not very socially awkward.

Once again, on the other hand I find it totally impossible to understand why people find 99% of the things they find strange, to be strange. Like, once I am approached wtih something that I'm unsure if I'm comfortable with, I work through it in my mind and most of the time I come to a conclusion of why it is no stranger than much of anything else and am then baffled by how other people can not see why it is not really all that strange.

Perhaps I should come back to this when it's not 3am and expand on it with a little more brain power.

Jimmy the Squid:
"Normal" is a term that irks me a little as it almost seems to be an evaluative statement, with "normal" obviously being positive and "different", "abnormal" or "unusual" being negative. That said I am probably further from the "normal" end of the scale than most, at least superficially. I mean, politically I fall into the mid-left side of things, I don't necessarily have one of those "five year plans" but I do know where I would like to go with my life and I have a reasonable outline of how to do that which is maybe different to most other middle class white males in their early 20s? I don't know whether I perceive things differently but I mabe think about things and attack problems from different angles than other people I know do. For the most part I am a pretty responsible kind of guy but if I get left on my own for too long and I get bored then I start to act a little odd (eg: running around my flat pretending to be a dinosaur, snarling at household appliances etc...). On the whole I'm pretty normal, but I'm also interesting (I hope) so I'm happy with that.

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