Normal is a misnomer. To be normal you need to have a consensus of people who agree on the ideal. That makes it completely subjective and therefore a wasted pursuit.

在马里兰州南部，把你的皮卡车叫做“皮卡皮卡”是很“正常”的事，而且车后保险杠上还挂着一个超大的男性身体复制品。我拒绝那样做，所以我不正常。是的，你关于服装的陈述也适用。我从来没有像马里兰南部那样，穿六件领口越来越大的t恤，腋下塞一包烟。

Perhaps, the meaning of normal as typical contains the normative meaning because of the purely empirical fact that people generally behave as they ought to.
所以，与其说“像你应该做的那样做”，我们可以说“像大多数人做的那样做”(即正常)，因为大多数人的行为都是正常的。
如果人们通常没有按照他们应该做的去做，那么“正常”就没有一个规范的意义了。

What is normality? A normal person is whoever conforms to a paradigm that is accepted by most of people . But it is not true that most of people are normal, so the one who strives to be normal follows a wrong way, the way of the majority. It seems that they are like sheep and no one of them goes out of the flock. So I think the concept of normality has to be searched inside oneself, so that it is normal a person who follows its own way.
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如果大家还有什么问题，我愿意就此发表我的看法。
Ettore Grillo

I knew I was going to enjoy this article just from the title. I get so tired of useless labels. I know that people do exist of a particular type but the minute I declare that I have something in common with the polka dot people, folks will extrapolate that I buy or endorse everything they stand for.

Normal is simply the average mean.
Be it good or bad right or wrong,
judgement or measure is uncertain at best.
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MJA

"In the areas of physical and mental health, it is often a bit difficult to separate the average and typical side of being normal and the normative, meeting standards side.... Abnormal psychology deal with the different, the aberrant, the dysfuctional, people who are different than most of us, so surely not normal in that sense. So is that roughly the same as mental health?"
正如你的客人所说的，权威围绕着绝对的正常，这是一个危险的路线，我们作为一个国家将这种紊乱归类为正常的精神错乱，而实际上它是完全循环的。在本例中，它是语义性的，而且正如调用者所声明的那样，是上下文相关的，必须应用新的逻辑形式来解决这个问题。
If one was to apply the Transcendental Logical form, or schema. One would see normalcy as a synthetic because face it the word normal is useful, and constantly being used in daily conversations.

As your guest stated about the authority that surrounds definite normalcy, it is a dangerous route we as a nation would travel in classifying, such disorders as "normal psychosis", etc., when in all fact it is totally circular. In this case, it is semantics, and as the one caller stated, contextual. So a new logical form must be applied to address this issue.
If one was to apply the Transcendental Logical form, or schema, one would see normalcy as a synthetic because face it, the word 'normal' is useful, and constantly being used in daily conversations.

Very informative post, agree normal is any form that we think and see that is not normal to us.

哇，我喜欢阅读你所有的想法!
To me, I feel that screew everybody and in this case the "norm" and live your life the way you feel comfortable. Don't conform to the majority as we will all become puppets in a game of reulation, stand up and have your own voice, and dammit be pround!

Normalcy is subjective. There are certain standards that society sets, and those who reside outside the standards are deemed "abnormal".
Don't bother with what is normal or what isn't; be yourself.
“做你自己，说出你的感受，因为介意的人不重要，重要的人不介意。”

YAWN. If you do not have a sense of normalcy, then what do you rely upon? Your own abjectivity? If you/we choose to be your/ourselve(s), to the exclusion of others, what do we become---let's see: anarchist comes to mind---lots of movies about that sorry state---all hopeless and pointless. Ending with, well: nothingness.
Sure. Don't bother with what is normal. Be yourself. Kill people. Do all manner of nasty things. Mind over matter. Go right ahead. And the next time you walk out in front of my car, talking on your cellphone and not looking in either direction, you may be dead for your inattentiveness. I might go to jail. But you will be dead.Or, hurt badly because I chose to brake rather than run you down as you deserved.
我真的厌倦了流行文化，厌倦了手机上那些自认为不受批评或伤害的人。是谁创造了这个?猜猜谁。
YAWN.

Physical and mental health is both same important.A normal person is whoever conforms to a paradigm that is accepted by most of people . But it is not true that most of people are normal, so the one who strives to be normal follows a wrong way, the way of the majority.I know some idea about normal and abnormal stage of your post.I appreciate this informative post.