abnormal

When we're adults and have leveled out, it's easier to discern what is "normal" from "abnormal.

I don't know who "we" is, but there's nothing abnormal about programmers as programmers.

My abnormal psych professor made a big deal of the fact that the DSM names things first and foremost so they can be talked about.

If you're not collected and emotionally unreactive you are abnormal/weak.

Or you were the victim of circumstances beyond your control that resulted in abnormal financial burdens.

Being weak to bacterial exposure is like being weak to sunlight-- it is going to dramatically change your life and make you very "abnormal" as a human.

Some deep internal about:something page that looks like merely viewing it will destroy your computer, and requires you to type something abnormal?

The examination finding that prompted the biopsy was persistent cough and general fatigue accompanied by an abnormal chest X-ray.

Any emotional expression that deviates from a narrow acceptable range is abnormal.

Slinte!The writer is also missing something important: it's virtually impossible for a normal person, or even an abnormal person, to read Ulysses without a guide to the book that describes its allusions and what's going on. If you're trying to read Ulysses without the superstructure of a guidebook or guidebooks, or a class, you're almost certainly going to fail, because very little of it, taken as a free-standing narrative, makes any sense.

Personally, I think the most obvious issue is that a group of intelligent people have simply accepted the notion that what's relevant isn't someone's life circumstances, but some vague and baseless notion of "abnormal brain chemistry".The idea of depression is a miserable cop-out, it's simply victim-blaming.