Sometimes i would stim at school (we've already talked about stims) and then, the therapist or my parents would tell me to appear more "normal"... NOW I KNOW THAT WAS A REALLY GARBAGE TAKE... WHAT'S NORMAL ANYWAYS? FOR ME... NORMAL IS A BAD WORD. Normal, is, first thing first, A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT. For many Indigenous communities around the world, going topless was normal, even if you were a woman. That is, until colonizers came. But the colonizers are to blame, not Indigenous people. What i'm saying is: There's no exact definition of what exactly constitutes "normalcy". Of course, the concept of "normalcy" is not just racist: It is VERY, VERY ABLEIST. Let's say you stim: People will tell you off, asking you to act "normal". But these people never wonder why you stim(we've talked about that before), and therefore, think it just has to be a bad thing, because they haven't ever seen it. And it's ok. Through evolutio...