Normality is the quality or condition of normal (that conforms to standards or is in its natural state). In a general sense, normality refers to that or that which conforms to average values.
For example: “The team needs a player who escapes from normality and who can solve games on his own” , “It is expected that a teenager will try to break with normality, which oppresses him, and that he will look for his own path” , “I am tired of this situation: I want to get back to normal as soon as possible” , “The company paid the owed salaries and the employment situation returned to normal” .
Normality in behavior
The normality of a behavior is linked to the behavior of a subject that does not show significant differences with respect to the behavior of the rest of its community . Men wearing skirts may be normal in certain regions of Scotland , but it is abnormal in many other societies.
We must not forget, in any case, that normality has a great burden of subjectivity and is linked to social condition, age and other issues. For a teenager, going all night without sleep may seem normal on the weekends, while an older person who has the same behavior generates strangeness.
Expectations and generalization
The concept of normality encompasses the series of expectations that each society has of its people. This is a generalization and, as such, lacks precision when put into practice. No matter how much a person tries to be like another, to comply with their commands, they will never be able to modify their feelings and needs voluntarily. Normality ignores those details that make us individuals and therefore does not speak about us, but for us.
It is as absurd to say that women are naturally attracted to fashion and love stories as it is to say the opposite; Each woman of a certain social group grows up in a particular environment, lives unique experiences, interprets her elders' treatment of her in an unparalleled way, and all these facets of her life, along with many others, combine to make her an individual being , no matter how much she looks like the rest of the women.
Personality traits are very complex, and small differences between two people are enough to understand that they are two well-defined beings. Sharing a taste for a literary genre with someone is not enough evidence to assume that there is compatibility between the two, since each one can seek a very different objective through reading the same book, take advantage of different aspects of its content, feel identified with opposite characters.
The problem of normality
The big problem with normality is not that someone has noticed a similarity between a large group of people and has given it a name, but that someone has decided to consider those who do not belong to said group to be wrong. Contempt for abnormal individuals is not about not giving them access to an elite club; There is a deep resentment that leads to abuse of all kinds, which sows terror in those who dare to show their differences and which threatens their physical and mental integrity.
If the personality of all human beings in a region were examined under a microscope, if they were subjected one by one to every possible situation in life to evaluate their reactions, if they were all honest with themselves and with others, then It would not be possible to establish the limits of normality.
Measurement unit
Normality is also a unit that allows measuring the concentration of a solute in a solvent .
It is expressed with the letter N and can be defined as the number of equivalents of solute per liter of solution. Normality depends on the reaction in which the solution participates.