All my life I have been outside of social norms. Or at least, that was how I felt in my youth. I never really fit in, was always the awkward nerdy kid. But, I made friends, and had sports, and found my own way to enjoy doing things.
As I have aged, I've truly embraced my abnormality. I don't like certain aspects of social norms, and reject them. That tends to cause problems, but I think that sticking to what I value is more important usually.
I also feel that the concept of normality is a problem, unless you're talking in mathematics terms. It really only creates pressure to conform, to change yourself to suit others. Being unique (or not normal) is a glorious thing. Our differences should be celebrated, not covered up. We shouldn't feel that we have to be similar to anyone else, because those kinds of compulsions move us away from our true selves.
I think a lot of the issues surrounding social conformity come from the school system. They're surprisingly toxic places for developing personalities, and I think they go a long ways towards creating problematic mentalities that can last a very long time. Hopefully someday soon school's can be accepting places for children to explore themselves and the world we share.
Greetings my fellow Earth citizens :)
Today’s prompt kind of struck a chord in me for some reason. I don’t normally write these about myself, but I don’t know, it just felt right for some reason.
To offset from my post, please enjoy this comic from Spiked Math. If you don’t know about matrix math, you may not get it, but for my nerdy self I had a good chuckle.
I’ve found a really easy way to get pictures for some of the more obscure topics that I write about. Instead of going to Unsplash or Pixabay, I just search on Wikipedia, and use the picture there. So far, every one that I have seen is CC of some variety, so it works out awesomely. I highly recommend it.
I am having my FreeWrite’s be an SBI giveaway. This is a way to reward my fellow FreeWriter’s, and hopefully motivate me to do daily freewrite’s again. No promises on that, but I am going to make an attempt.
What you need to do to enter is simply comment on this post with a link to your freewrite. I will then assign you a number, and when I write the next post, I will pick using a random number generator. There’s no need to resteem or upvote, though it would be helpful to allow me to do this contest for longer.
I am also hosting another contest if you would like to enter that as well. Everyone is welcome :)
Looking Back/ Looking Forward SBI Contest
Until next time,
Aloha
Here are the results from the previous giveaway:
I used Google’s Random Number Generator (if someone has a preferred method let me know) and got 2. So
Thank you both for your entries, I enjoyed reading them, and I look forward to your next one.
Here are the people who have responded with their own freewrites and entered my contest. You should definitely check out these awesome writers :)
This is my response to the Freewrite prompt, a daily writing exercise that I am really enjoying doing. Thank you 
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-594-5-minute-freewrite-thursday-prompt-not-normal
Prompt: “Not Normal"
I am looking for a partner for the we-write contest if anyone is interested. You can find details here.
If you’re interested in writing with me, please send me a message on discord, my username is nmcdougal#1503, or on Telegram.
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