If you tell me you’re normal, I may well offer you some laxatives because I think anybody who insists they’re normal is full of shit.
- You are not normal; you are white in a majority-white society.
- You are not normal; you are Christian in a majority-Christian society.
- You are not normal; you are heterosexual in a heteronormative society.
- You are not normal; you are heteroromantic in a heteronormative society.
- You are not normal; you are right-handed in a world where most people are right-handed.
- You are not normal; you are neurotypical in a world where most people’s brains work like yours.
- You are not normal; you are cisgender in a society where most people settle for the gender they were assigned at birth.
- You are not normal; you speak the same language as the majority of your society.
- You are not normal; you had a typical childhood with mostly the same formative experiences as your peers.
- You are not normal; you just do a better job of conformity than I do.
- You are not normal; you are a human fucking being, an individual, and a minority of one.
- You are not normal; if the world around you wants to scapegoat you they will find an excuse.
- You are not normal. Stop clinging to that word. It does you no good.
Why am I saying this? Because I’m sick of certain cisgender people thinking that transgender people need to be “fixed”. They don’t. Likewise with autistic people as far as some neurotypicals are concerned, and introverts in the opinions of some extroverts. If you don’t like people who are different from you for reasons outside their control, then keep it to yourself — just I do when I don’t like you because of characteristics you can’t control.