"normal" is a setting on the dyer . lol the normal people I know are diverse, interesting, and not without their own special "quirks". They also illuminate for me some of the ways that I might have learned to do things had I never ventured to change the way I was feeling by using anything ecternal for short term gratification.
My friend says there's many trails to the mountain top. The one I find myself on is only that. The climber next to me may get there before or after I do but the goal and teh result will be the same.