User:GemWolf

What is Normal/Weird
No one is the same, that is a fact. Everyone is different, and in being different we all have our own opinions of each other. For example it is by Calvin's opinion that Susie is weird because she picks school work over play-time. Susie's opinion that Calvin is weird is for Calvin's skill of procrastination. It is their opinions of each other that leads to what they believe to be weird and normal. Naturally weirdness would be defined as something outside the norm of the individual. Calvin believes that kids should play while they are still young, and that play-time should come first before anything stressing like work. So to Calvin play-time is more important making it completely normal to him, and the fact that Susie picks School work over play-time is weird to him.

Susie believes that education is more important than playing with her dolls and when she finds Calvin has not finished an assignment on time, she might think that would be weird because it is normal to value education where she feels that Calvin does not, thusly making Calvin weird to Susie. We as a race have a tendency to label things that we do not understand or are just plain foreign to us, and sadly enough we do it to ourselves, especially with the case of Calvin and Susie. Susie's actions and beliefs are weird to Calvin because he does not have and/or follow the same actions/beliefs that Susie follows, and Calvin's actions and beliefs are weird to Susie because she does not have and/or follow the same actions/beliefs that Calvin follows. What we then have is two children who label each other as weird because both kids feel foreign to each other.

Normalcy and Weirdness are two popular negative labels and they are popular because everyone accepts them. If everyone acknowledges the two then do we truly value individual behavior? Granted we feel that we must filter individual behavior, but when we do we feel that we must label that individuals behavior and mark it as normal or weird, but if you label a child as being weird that will effect their self-esteem. This all being said, normalcy and weirdness is a matter of opinion, and that there is no true normal nor is there any true weirdness, the fact is both are illusions that distract from individual behavior.