Is it normal to want to be normal?

I'm newly diagnosed as autistic and part of me still wants to be "normal".......whatever normal is. Is this normal? Any advice from anyone feeling a similar way?

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  • You are normal...there is nothing "wrong or not normal" about you anyway....you're good as you are ...in fact as a neuro typical I often find myself jealous of my son who is autistic as his thinking I feel sometimes is better than mine I often find myself realising that it's me who is wrong etc...its just different and my son hates it when I say we just have different brains as he says yeah but your not neurologicaly disabled it is what it is etc…he sees what he can't do and others can etc. I feel that it's just ignorance ie when neuro typical say oh you're not normal etc ..its just plain ignorant and a lack of knowledge  and understanding.  What if the world was all autistic brains with neuro typical in the minority it'd be the other way round then.

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  • You are normal...there is nothing "wrong or not normal" about you anyway....you're good as you are ...in fact as a neuro typical I often find myself jealous of my son who is autistic as his thinking I feel sometimes is better than mine I often find myself realising that it's me who is wrong etc...its just different and my son hates it when I say we just have different brains as he says yeah but your not neurologicaly disabled it is what it is etc…he sees what he can't do and others can etc. I feel that it's just ignorance ie when neuro typical say oh you're not normal etc ..its just plain ignorant and a lack of knowledge  and understanding.  What if the world was all autistic brains with neuro typical in the minority it'd be the other way round then.

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