Normality

You may have noticed that the title of my blog is Fighting Against the Norm, but that got me thinking today. Just what exactly is "the norm"? Is it when a teenager can sit quiet in class and not disturb the other students? Is it when Someone has 20/20 vision or perfect hearing? How about when they can walk without the aide of a Cain or wheelchair? Depending on your own personal circumstance, normality will be different than what I perceive as normal. In a family setting, to struggle with reading is normal, as opposed to in a school setting when having difficulty reading makes me cringe and want to hide.
I fully admit that there are days when I wish that I could just 'be normal.' I am a 25 year old near college graduate who knows better than to think that everyone is the same and I am the one that is off, and yet I still do it. I think that consciously or unconsciously we all wonder if we are normal or not. When I was five or six years old and in the first grade, I was completely ambidextrous. I had a teacher who could not understand how mid sentence I could switch from writing with my right hand to writing with my left. At one point, she told me that I needed to choose one hand or the other to write with. I chose my right because, well, because I wanted to be 'normal'.