- Normal and abnormal are examples of a logical fallacy (false dilemma)as well an indication of mental illness (black and white thinking)
- Between black and white is gray.
- Between hot and cold is warm. Between tall and short, fat and thin and so forth.
- Thinking in polarities is problematic
Society seems to be and always seems to have been quick to categorize or label that which is different, uncommon, unknown or alien. Now these labels, I'll call opinions, are all relative to the life one has been subjected to or influenced by in their own span of life. While anything or anyone that is outside of that realm or scope of the life as they have come to know it is considered abnormal, the neighbor just next door or across the street, let alone someone from a totally different demographic, may have had a completely different perception of the way things, I'll say were identical, transpired. In other words two totally different people, same town, same schools, same influences may have had (more than likely) two totally different views of what is considered or deemed to be "normal". It's quite interesting, this, because everyone has their own idea of what "right" is, but I'd wager that everyone who agrees on that said "right" that they do not all agree in the thought that it is "correct" but just the way that it is because it is what is perceived to be the way to go.
Normalcy, normality or normal, I don't think that any can ever be correctly defined unless or until you can harness and regulate the way everything is perceived. Trouble is, then everyone is forced to think the way you are.
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