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Is it normal to want to be normal?

NAS90621

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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  • I don't know...

    There are a lot of areas I beat myself up in and just wish I could do and be capable of things so-called 'normal' people do with relative ease but at the same time I don't really want to be a vanilla everyman either, I must admit when learning and coming to terms with my autism I appreciate some of my differences that I now realise are related to it. Despite everything and the self hate I often get, I don't think I would really want to be somebody else

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  • I don't know...

    There are a lot of areas I beat myself up in and just wish I could do and be capable of things so-called 'normal' people do with relative ease but at the same time I don't really want to be a vanilla everyman either, I must admit when learning and coming to terms with my autism I appreciate some of my differences that I now realise are related to it. Despite everything and the self hate I often get, I don't think I would really want to be somebody else

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