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• red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How dare you.

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  • thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No no, they might have a point…

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    • red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How double dare you.

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      • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Welcome to Lemmy, where all of our users have autism, ADHD, both, brachycephaly, festering demonic anatomy of carnal nature, or may or may not be Academy award nominated actress Margot Robbie. We also all run Linux (or Plan9).

        Totally normal :P

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      • Valthorn@feddit.nu ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No no, they might have two points…

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    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I always want to point out that I’m a normie, then I start thinking of criteria and shut my mouth.

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• meep_launcher@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The real normies are the ones you made along the way

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• j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Normal is someone you do not know well enough yet. It is a fictitious misconception. If you think about the concept objectively, you likely will not be able to name anyone you know really well that fits into the ideal group you have mentally abstracted as normal. The construct is part of tribalism and our human complex social hierarchy on a subconscious level; we are deciding who is and is not part of our personal tribe and their ranking within that hierarchy relative to our own. Everyone is abstracting on this level, but few are self aware in this space.

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  • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I honestly doubt this. Some people just live life by the book, never have an original thought, and are the square peg the square hole is looking for.

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• nesc@lemmy.cafe ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why? Having niche interests is pretty normal.

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  • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you’re part of .01% portion of a population that divides itself, you’ve likely got something different brewing in your brain than most. And there’s nothing wrong or right about that, but it is worth considering.

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    • nesc@lemmy.cafe ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In one way or another you aee .01% of population, e.g. someone is from austria, electrician speaks german and english and italian, goes to church and part of the chorus, their partner is from italy, and they like mountain bikes. How many people like this in the world? How exactly using lemmy is less normal then using another less popular forum?

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      • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        In that example, you’ve already described several thing that are unique or peculiar, albeit more common than using a website fueled by spite for the modern internet.

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  • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Niche in this context literally means to be of interest to a small minority. Or to say it in other words, not normal.

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    • nesc@lemmy.cafe ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I know what the word niche means, it doesn’t in any way or other words mean ‘not normal’.

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      • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t know how to paint it more clearly for you. You are talking about interests that are out of the ordinary, not typical for the average population, obscure by definition, you know… niche. Having obscure interests is relatively common in the grand scheme of things but still not typical of the average person on the street. Which makes it not normal. I would go so far as to call it neurodivergent, since it’s most probably the cause of the said interests.

        I do prefer abnormality in my life, probably everyone that managed to get themselves on lemmy does, but we are not a representation of the general population, we are but a niche.

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