Yale Research Confirms What You’ve Always Suspected: Nobody Is Normal

Jessica Stillman
3 min readFeb 10, 2021

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Every day, millions of people around the world ask Google some variation of the question, “Am I normal?” Burdened by shame, we turn to the internet to figure out if our behavior, our bodies, and our deepest emotions mark us as outside the mainstream.

The very fact that so many of us are typing “Is it normal to talk to yourself?” or “How often do

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Jessica Stillman

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