Yes I think its true.
Because we have this disorders we are very aware of our psychological life.
A lot of people are not so....A lot have unresolved issues that they are not even aware of and it shows once you get a glimpse into their lives really. It some times shows too on their train wreck around them in their relationships......

An element I believe I have found in my own assumptions that someone is, "Normal" is that I am assuming I know their personal histories and what is going on in their heads and/or daily lives; what they are or are not.

Worse, I think, is when I am comparing the chaos of my insides to a distant view of their outsides. Like comparing apples and distant stars. . .

Pretty much. Normal is best viewed from afar. Get close up, and the imperfections start to show.

The closest to normal I've ever really gotten that stayed that way was when I drove through Normal, Illinois once.

Normal is kind of like average. An idea that is a mathematical statistic, not something really embodied in the physical world. Fortunately, that's what makes everything unique and interesting in its own way.

I agree. I guess we only see their lives as a nice looking paint job from afar. But if we were to get up close, and take a scraper and scrape an area, we might find that they just painted their fascade without doing the prep work necessary to keep the paint job a lasting one. But it is nice to be at a place in my life that I am not angry at people who seem to have wonderful life.

My life may have been exactly as it is today. I may have been the quiet, solitary, introverted person that I am now. But the human part of me is angry at one thing. That I was not given the option. I as well as others were not loved and nourished as God charges parents to do. We were used and abused, so we were shoved into our boxes and our lives are what they are. I would have wanted to atleast had the option instead of having it thrust upon me. That's all. And I do not think that was too much to ask for.

I think it's an Oscar Wilde quote: "'Normal' is what we call people we don't know very well."

I love that and remind myself - and my kids- of it often.

Normal's a setting on a washing machine
-author unknown

NOrmal depends where you stand.

When I was four, being my dad's servant was normal.

Now it's normal for me to think he was a sick SOB.

Once, it was normal to assume a comet was an omen of doom.

Now it's a reason to hang ou on the roof with telescopes.

Normal is ever-changing within ourselves and our cultures, is my take. so... what is it anyway?