I really liked reading this post. The most profound part for me was this: > "Normal" is another way of saying, "What is considered acceptable within my in-grou

I really liked reading this post. The most profound part for me was this: > "Normal" is another way of saying, "What is considered acceptable within my in-group." I very frequently tell people that I have trouble understanding what “normal” is in the context of things like issues of health or other people’s behaviour because I only really know how how I feel. In addition, I find survey questions that try to bucket frequencies of some event into an unrelated numeric scale in order to quantify or qualify said event similarly bewildering. I never could explain why any better than using something like “you’re not me”, or “I only have one life”. I guess another possible way to describe “normal” would be something like “most common anecdote”.