Personal Narrative: What Is Being Normal?

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What is being normal? How do I be normal? Do I become one of the many fish in the sea, or do I just be me? I never got to decide my choice, it was already planned out for me. Normal is a foreign word for me. We don’t get along, like and a person and their ex.

From the moment I was born, my parents said they knew I would be different. I mean, who’s born with red hair and blue eyes? At the age of nine, who feels uncomfortable in the girl’s bathroom? At the age of sixteen, who wants to chop all their hair of and change sexualities?

Me. That’s who.

People aren’t going to make fun of me. Not this time. Columbia University, here I come.

“ Jack, where are you? You need to start packing! Your leaving us in a week, and you haven't booked anything

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