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Yes the definition of normal!
Until I took a statistics class in university, I thought normal was average, or the same as most other people, but that is not the definition. Statistically speaking there is a Normal Distribution Curve in a population, and when you measure one aspect (say ability to focus? or maybe intelligence?) and the population is normal, there is a wide difference in measurements.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution –
Halfway down is a nice blue bell curve, the best visual cue, to understand what I am trying to explain.
And everything inside that bell curve is called normal. Because to have some geniusses in a population is normal, and to have some people with low intelligence in a population is normal. To have extremely tall people is normal, and to have extremely small people is completely normal. And for every seperate aspect of your life, you can be above or below average, and still within completely normal range. I guess you have to look at which population are you comparing yourself to- everybody, family, collaegues, other ADD-people.
Or look at who is calling you abnormal? What is their reference point?
My dad told me I wasn’t normal, but he was using a very small definition of normal.
Only the top of the bell curve was normal to him, and above ofcourse for intelligence, and grades.
Two different things, as we all know.
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