Capital Furs

So I'm just killing time and watching a movie when one of the characters says something that made me stop and think.

The line itself is (give or take a word here or there)

"I don't know if there is anything wrong with me, because I don't know how other people are"

And it struck me. One of the factors involved in insanity is not knowing that you're insane. What you do, while insane to other people, makes perfect sense to you... it's normal and it's just a part of life, and that made me wonder...

what if you're insane and nobody tells you? Say it was just a mild form of insanity... or mental disturbance if insanity is too strong of a word. Your family and friends just accepted it and dealt with your eccentricities and never bothered point them out, they'd just roll with it. You don't have access to other people's thoughts and perceptions, so you'd have no way to know they see things differently than you and nothing to compare your own actions to.

In effect you'd have no idea that you were insane. You would live your life with a perfect sense of normalcy to it simply because that's how your world has always worked, and without someone to tell you differently, you'd never know!

I, or any one of you, may be completely batshit insane and think we're completely normal. I may just tell you that you're normal, we could all be full of shit and pretending that nothing's wrong.

Bit of an overwhelming thought.

Oddly enough, that thought has occurred to me before. And I'm pretty sure I have some ways of thinking that are a little..well, .not the typical "normal". But what is "normal" anyways? I just have some weird theories on various things. Don't believe in them, but I'd probably get a lot of weird looks or responses for it. XD

The part where you mention friends or family just rolling with a problem though freaked me out a touch.

Definitely a lot to think on.

That's why I normally go with the flow in public (other than wearing my collar and tail everywhere) :3

I hold this as a belief. Only I know that everyone is stark raving mad. The world is one great big crazy house of people who pretend to be normal.

That is the way of the society we live in.

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