Too right, Rayna! <grin>

Kathy S.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rayna Lamb" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: Catching.Up


> Normal is boring!
> I regard it as an insult when people tell me how `normal' I can appear
> in certain situations.  Even if I was AB (god forbid) I would still be
> weird -  and proud of it!  The problem is finding others who
> appreciate the strange and weird in life.
> And if everyone was `normal' nothing would ever be acheived or changed
> in life.  All the best discoveries, inventions etc, were devised by
> people who didn't fit the mold of `normal' if only intellectually.
> Many of the great creators/inventors were misfits and misunderstood or
> revilled by `normal' society.
>
> Rayna
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 02:09:10PM -0400, K. Salkin wrote:
>     LOL... you've brought up a point that can set me on simmering...
>
>     OK, what's normal?  Being able-bodied?  Pleez, give me a break.
Timothy
>     McVeigh is a A-B person and I do NOT call him normal by any standards.
>
>     Let's talk about my boyfriend <grin>.  Terry is a warm, compassionate
guy,
>     but do people see him as "normal?"  No, as he's 48 and has his hair
slicked
>     back into a ponytail.  He's a former electronic musician who now does
>     printing tech stuff on a computer.  He's in great physical shape, but
to
>     look at him now, you'd never believe he's fought Hepatitis C and won!
This
>     in spite of his being sick for almost 20 years.
>
>     I am tired of people judging by what society sees as "normal."