Posted by Toph on April 30, 2005, at 20:27:21
What if we were considered sane and everyone else insane? We might call those unlike ourselves “normies”. If one of us started acting real level headed and unemotional we might say in a condescending way, “You normie @ss.” Saturday Night Live would have a skit about two guys who go to a dance club wearing expensive Italian suits. Politely asking two women to dance they proclaim, “We are two mild and normie guys!”
Normies would go to psychiatrists to try to gain insight into why they are so stable. Therapeutic treatment would strive to make normies develop frequent mood swings and more chaos in their lives. We would ridicule their feeble attempts to hallucinate, loath life or obsess like we can so easily. If normies were excessively grounded they would be detained in hospitals until they convinced the staff that they had sufficiently reduced their sanity.
A psychotic physician who is on the faculty of South Chicago Community College would create an internet support site called Normo Babble. Posters would support each other by sharing such problems as sleeping 8 hours every night, tremendously enjoying the company of their parents, and having too many promotions at work. Pharmaceutical companies would spend millions developing medications that would instill anxiety, depression, delusions and mania in desperate normie patients. The DSM IV would have such diagnoses as chronic considerate personality, unipolar calmness disorder, and excessive self-confidence syndrome.
OK, so this notion may be a little far fetched, but imagine that most people were born with some form of mental illness and normal people were in the minority. Wouldn’t we become the standard for normal behavior, ideal brain chemistry, and desired genetics? Call me crazy, but it would be nice to see others spend years on the couch trying to be more like me for a change.
Toph
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