I like the newer one-liner, "Normal is a setting on the washing machine."
Everyone has their own idea of what "normal" is so you're actually just questioning yourself and your ideas of whether you match some "list" you have made up. It's like people who look for the "ideal" mate rather than taking each person as they come along and learning about that person as that person is. Get to know and like yourself as you are instead of trying to match something arbitrary outside you? One of the first things I did that I really liked was to begin ignoring my symptoms as they're only symptoms, not the "problem" itself. I started looking for and paying attention to the larger problems instead of just how I was coping with them and that got rid of the need to "cope"/the symptoms and then I didn't feel so weird anymore.
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