Well the use of the word "normal" tends to be a bit of a challenge.

I you go and sit in a busy mall for a while and just "people watch", it will not take long before you recognize that every single person is different. If anything "normal" is actually unique. And what most human beings have in common is our legs arms, hands, ears, noses and other parts, but those too are unique to each person in size etc. So it is not unreasonable to think about how each person will also have a uniqueness in their brains too.

I saw a study being done on rats and the study was about sexuality. They took a rat and put a little jacket on that rat before introducing it to a female rat in heat. The rat mated several times over the course of several days and all was well. Then, they took that same rat, took the little jacket off and again put him in with a female in heat, what they observed is the rat really struggled to mate. What they learned from that is that the rat connected the mating with the jacket and without it, just could not seem to mate.

While that experiment was learning about sexual behaviors, honestly it showed a lot more than just that. So while we are all unique, we imprint a lot of things depending on our family, and our culture too.

So when we say "normal", again, what is normal is being unique and more ways then we realize. If we talk about MI, then again, that too will also be unique to each person. We can identify certain symptoms that are shared by groups of unique individuals, however, these symptoms can vary simply by the mere fact that we are all unique.

What we have been learning about is some of the differences that individuals can have that can make their ability to learn and adapt different, but even as we learn about these various challenges, again, each person is going to be unique.

So when we use the word "normal" it is important to recognize that there is no model of a person that we can truly use and say, that man/woman is normal.

OE