Normal Sucks

The irony is, many of the most prominent eugenicists were extremely odd and strange, the very type of people targeted for elimination.

This act of reclaiming is really an act of self-negation.

in school and work, human beings are judged by categories that did not exist before:

I hope you find a place in your life, filled with people, ideas, and experiences, that cracks you open, breaks you apart, and then gives you the freedom to put yourself back together again, different from when you arrived.

Forcing human beings to perform normalcy, and then demanding that they self-police their normality, is part of normal’s master plan.

If the world is a continuum in all its forms, maybe, Robert said, it is wrong and is an act of culture, not nature, when some parts of this continuum are grouped, categorized, and labeled as sick and others not.

the average life expectancy for those who would have been considered feebleminded was 66.2 years. During the mid-twentieth century, at the height of the eugenics movement, it was 18.5 years.

Resisting normal starts with a refusal to hide, to cover, to deny the parts of yourself that don’t fit normal’s story for you.

This was, according to the Third Reich, an “American-model sterilization law.”