They thrive on an incredibly dull idea of normality: save the world, get the girl, settle down and have billions of beautiful and perfect babies.
The result is a provoking and adorable probe into the idea of normality, perfectly framed for a child to understand.
The selling of perfect relationships and some bourgeois idea of normality is actually a total turn-off.
The idea of normality took root, and with it a nasty premise: If minds could be shaped, it followed that they could be well-shaped or ill-shaped with respect to some norm, naturally the greatest common denominator.
The general idea of normality theories consists in saying: "cp, all As are Bs" means that normally As are Bs.
The common general idea of normality theories consists in saying that "cp, all As are Bs" means that normally As are Bs.
Did you want to explore the idea of normality in this story?
I didn't start the story with the idea of normality, but one cannot avoid these reflections.
As students thought about topics for their posters, the idea of normality was one that kept rising to the top – did Puerto Rico want to rebuild to its old "normal," so the country could go back to the way it was before Maria?
"Children who don't fit our idea of normality, we put them in warehouses or castles.
"Yes, we have a choice in life, to be ourselves or to conform to someone else's idea of normality, but being straight, bisexual or gay, or none of these, is a central part of who we are, thanks in part to the DNA we were born with".
