I'm normal, what about you?

[Sistermillyrose]

I suppose I should take it as a compliment, but I've been told a few times that I'm ok because I'm so "normal". I suppose it's not up there with the greatest of compliments but apparently that is what I am. What have all you lot been told you are, either complimentary or insulting?

I did a course once where the trainer said I had a very expressive face. I took it as a compliment but then he added, with a worried air, "Your face must be very tiredby the end of the day."

No one has ever described me as normal. That makes me happy, but I wouldn't be insulted if they did.

Normal is subjective. One of my hobbies is throwing knives and Mohawks and am a member of a club. I do this every week. So to the people at the club spending Sunday throwing axes and knives at targets is normal. But to most people it's not. I get some very strange looks when people ask me if I had a good weekend.

Funnily DH and I were talking about this the other day. I don't think being normal is a bad thing at all....by normal I suppose you mean that you have an average job, live in an average home and lead an average social life?

We're not very normal at all and it's quite hard going at times.

Scwept I didn't even know that was a thing! Knife throwing as a hobby?! I want a go! Could one practice at home in the garden if there were no children or animals about?

You can't possibly be normal. You're on Mumsnet.

I'm normal. I'm predictable and my life is as average as can be. I always wanted to be normal, growing up in a family of oddities.

Imnamey there are a few clubs across the UK. Much more popular in the US. I didn't know it was a thing either until dad mentioned one of his friends has opened a club doing it. So I called and went along. It's so much fun! I love it. [Grin]

It's definitely a compliment.

I say this (in my head/to DH) about people that I love. I think it means that they're like me though haha! Not sure i'd say it to anyone's face though...!

I was once informed that I was "rather attractive, for a Scot". I guess I wouldn't mind if my entire family and much of my friendship group were also Scottish.

I was also told, "You really are like a miniature version of a person" - i'm 5"2 and very much in proportion

And yes you can. It better if you are a member at a club, so you have id if you are stopped when transporting knives. But it's not any knife. You need certain ones. Not the little throwing one's. I keep mine at my club anyway. But we have done it in the garden before.

My gym is having a summer party and they are coming down to do a demo Nd let people have a go.

I'm often told that I am "sensible" and "capable" and wonder if they really mean boring

Shewept omg I want a go so badly!

Somebody on here likened me to a comfortable cardighan i took it as compliment i think normal is fine im normal and sensible apparently id love to be flaky and wild but was never to be sigh

Cardigan even

My daughter (very bright but has Asperger's, so also very plain speaking) told me that she loves the fact that I'm so squashy because it makes me nice to hug. She meant very well, but it did rather draw attention to that stubborn baby weight that hasn't gone away 23 years on from when she was born!

'Not the kind of girl, you know, you'd want to marry. But fit.'
Prick. I got engaged a year later

As I get older, I find I'm more and more grateful for 'normal' people in my life. I've made a few unconventional choices here and there, but I'm quite glad to be relatively 'normal.'

Wacky (there's an appealing word) or basically anyone keen to show how kooky/zany/unconventional they are, is something I find fairly grating.

Normal - though goodness knows it's different things to everyone - is far more desirable

I've had the 'expressive face' too

that and 'I bet you're funny when you're drunk'

not sure how to take that!

Oh, I've just remembered an absolute cracker from schooldays. I'm Scottish, but my family moved to the North of England when I was 9. A few years later I was chatting to a schoolfriend from a much posher family than mine, who had not long before moved up North from London. I asked her what sort of accent she thought I had, largely because I wanted to be sure I still sounded Scottish. She hesitated slightly and then said 'Well, not one my mother would like me to have'. I was so gobsmacked I didn't know what to say! To this day I have no idea what she was getting at.

Someone once called me 'middle class'. Having grown up on a Liverpool council estate with a factory worker and union shop steward dad and a dinner lady mum, I was mortally offended. Middle fucking class my arse. :o

I sometimes get told "you're strong, for a woman" by other women when I do DIY solo, or change a flat tyre on my car, or do more masculine tasks about the house. It's a euphemism for "big, scary man-lady" I think. And I'm not. I just don't believe women should be confined to only doing "lady" jobs; my Dad taught me enough to never need to rely on a man. It's just as well; DH is as useless as can be with all things manly.

I'm not normal. But my normality is normal for me. The rest of you normal people are just abnormal

My passion for my subject shines through when I'm teaching and that helps enthuse children.

So that's a compliment.

I've also been told some really nice things about my appearance when I was feeling really down. But I'm the kind of person who thinks people are being nice rather than saying what they think.

What's normal to one is abnormal to another.

I sew, garden, knit and read while listening to heavy rock. Apparently that's not normal.

I work all the hours in a day and get little sleep. Apparently that's normal.

I play fire poi/hoops as a outdoor hobby. Apparently that's not normal.

I budget, prepare, shop and clean. Apparently that's normal.

It seems to me that I hate the 'normal' aspects of my life...hmm

Does the word normal now seem really weird to anyone else right now? I think I have thought it too much.

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