“Why Can’t You Just Be Normal?”

Or, how the pursuit of “normal” destroys peoples’ lives.

Or, how the pursuit of “normal” destroys peoples’ lives.

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“Why can’t you just be normal?” I screeched at my parents.

At 11, all I wanted was to be told I was just like everyone else. I hated my name. I hated the fact that I never got the Abercrombie & Fitch clothing everyone else in my school had. I hated that my parent…