As I age, the more convinced I am that the concept of “normal” is the most toxic thing in our culture.

Normal was created, not discovered, by flawed, eccentric, self-interested, racist, ableist, homophobic, sexist humans. Normal is a statistical fiction, nothing less. Knowing this is the first step toward reclaiming your power to define yourself, know yourself, and love yourself for who you are, not who you should be.

like anything else that people call “normal,” it comes wrapped in a set of social and personal assumptions that can reveal someone’s worldview. It also inherently suggests that there is an “abnormal,” a state that lies on the other side of some boundary, a state that may be considered extreme, where one might not venture by choice.