Reflective Essay: What Is Normal?

I don't think I am normal, in fact I know I am not normal. There are many things that do not make me normal, but one of them stands out the most. You see, I don't like to eat my food if it does not smell good. If the food I eat smells bad it doesn't matter how it taste I won't eat it. If there is ever an occasion when I have to eat the food because my mom is making me, or I don't want to refuse food from someone. I either tell them I am not hungry or I do what most kids do, cover my nose. I want to be considered normal, and I have been told before that I'm not normal, but everyone has something that stands out. I just want people to accept me for all of my flaws.

Not worrying about what others think and becoming a normal person, proposes …show more content…
He uses another example, “ For example, the sea is described as wine red, people's faces are sometimes green and sheep are purple.” In this example he uses Analogy, saying that Homer changes the color and sees the color different, from what they really are. He also mentions how in different cultures, they can not see different colors. How is that considered not normal, what do we consider normal? If we had people who only talked English in our class and then one student came in and talked Spanish or a different language. We would be considered that weird and not normal because we are not used to people talking another language other than English. There are many other scenarios where change has happened. Another example would be that we had always had Men as presidents, but then comes Hillary who ran to be president. Hillary may not have won, but she ran and was close to Winning. This would not have been normal because we are not used to having women, have such …show more content…
I like to wear nail polish, and one day as I was wearing nail polish to school. A teacher then told me that I was not allowed to wear nail polish to school. The next day I took off the nail polish because I did not feel confident enough to wear it to school again. I know that in some schools they do not let little kids wear nail polish, though I do not know how it affects their educations.I Will continue to wear nail polish, in hope that schools will understand that nail polish has nothing to do with a child's education.Saleem(2016) makes us think more about “what is at stake”. Now I am going to ignore what other will say about me when I eat my food. I will not “give in, into the “Normal””. We should stop listening to what others have to say and just be ourselves no matter