# Do you consider yourself normal? Why or why not?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-consider-yourself-normal-why-or-why-not/651822>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 2, 2013, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-consider-yourself-normal-why-or-why-not/651822 "2013-03-02T14:18:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-consider-yourself-normal-why-or-why-not/651822/61 "2013-03-07T02:46:08Z")

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I’m think of myself as normal enough. I’m a self-supporting single adult with a few issues, but generally I work hard, play plenty and am stable.

I’m not exactly average compared to others in my demographic, though - this includes my extended family and a majority of my friends. Most of them have at least a Bachelors, ‘real’ jobs and/or career paths, and have started down the road toward spouse and children by my age.

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**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-consider-yourself-normal-why-or-why-not/651822/62 "2013-03-07T02:55:18Z")

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Although I dismissed the question, in fact this question and I go a long way back together. I spent my life with people everywhere I went telling me I was weird. That got old. My gender issues (having been assigned the wrong gender at birth) just threw everything off and made me a constant misfit in everything. I got so tired of being judged “weird” by everybody that when I transitioned it was a great relief that now I could just be me and finally fit in with life the way I’d always wished I could. Since I’m no longer divided against myself but am a whole person at last, I’ve left that stigma of weirdness behind.

I still don’t believe that the concept “normal person” has any definite existence in reality, though.

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