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I'm weird. So what?
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There are these times when I do something totally out of the ordinary, and my friends almost immediately tell me, "that cant be normal" and that I'm just incredibly weird.
The other day when I told my friend that I wanted to dye my hair purple some day, she was just like, "Umm, why don't you just dye it in normal colors, like normal people do?".
That got me to thinking. What is normal? What does it really mean? Is is that what majority do is considered to be normal? That can't be fair. How can you judge what 'normal' is based on what most people do yet some people don't.
What 'normal' could really mean is, perhaps, biologically and psychologically proved human tendencies. But I don't think that it's a scientifically proven tendency of humans to crave chocolate, or to love music or for girls to love pink, or to whatever it is that is supposed to be "normal". Then why is it that when I don't comply to these set standards of normality, that I am called 'weird' or branded a 'freak'.
They're not really standards of normality, they're just stereotypes. Its discriminating, judgmental, and quite simply, stupid.
Come to think of it, the word 'normal' itself is a stereotype. Anything that is said to be normal does not necessarily apply to each and every single person of this human race. And as Chimamanda Adichie said "The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story."
So be weird, be random and be a freak and embrace it, coz honestly nobody is actually normal, everybody is just different in their own ways
The other day when I told my friend that I wanted to dye my hair purple some day, she was just like, "Umm, why don't you just dye it in normal colors, like normal people do?".
That got me to thinking. What is normal? What does it really mean? Is is that what majority do is considered to be normal? That can't be fair. How can you judge what 'normal' is based on what most people do yet some people don't.
What 'normal' could really mean is, perhaps, biologically and psychologically proved human tendencies. But I don't think that it's a scientifically proven tendency of humans to crave chocolate, or to love music or for girls to love pink, or to whatever it is that is supposed to be "normal". Then why is it that when I don't comply to these set standards of normality, that I am called 'weird' or branded a 'freak'.
They're not really standards of normality, they're just stereotypes. Its discriminating, judgmental, and quite simply, stupid.
Come to think of it, the word 'normal' itself is a stereotype. Anything that is said to be normal does not necessarily apply to each and every single person of this human race. And as Chimamanda Adichie said "The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story."
So be weird, be random and be a freak and embrace it, coz honestly nobody is actually normal, everybody is just different in their own ways
I wrote this when I was sick of people calling each other weird and crazy for almost everything they did. It may suck for a while but in the end they'll just have to deal with it. I mean, come on, who isn't weird?
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