It´s really strange to be told "be normal" when you think that you are not that abnormal, or that they haven´t really set the parameters for what normality is.
Anyways,... the exhortation "be normal" (specially said by someone that really doesn't fit within the social stereotypes of "normal") in my case was stressful.
I am not someone that gets stressed generally, I am very calm, methodical, reasonable an I like thinking things through perhaps too much sometimes. I am lucky to have the quality of being a great problem solver and that has given me the experience of being able to plan things, and through those plans, make things happen. I am not luckier than anybody, I don't have more resources than the basics, I don't get "given things" just because and I certainly wasn't just "gifted" any opportunities, all my opportunities were taken by choosing right, or creating them as such using my imagination.
So basically, when someone that has a lot of information to understand you and "know" you tells you be normal, is like saying to a fly... "damn! dont fly!!" and I know many times we wish that, when flies are being annoying. So, will it actually be "stop being annoying?"... if that is the case, wouldn't it help to know how is it being annoying? and clearly... wouldn't it be a totally different question?
And recapping. Who wants to be "normal"? what is "normal"? I enhance and cherish being peculiar, having a different point of view on many things than a great number of people. I am glad that I have had a hell of a lot of experiences (good and bad) that have made me the person who I am. Everybody has to love oneself, and, well, we all have our insecurities and so, but you have to love who you ARE. I love who I am, same as I love how all my friends and family ARE because that is what makes them special. Everybody has point of rareness and that is fantastic. That is absolutely great.
I cherish being different, that gives the world the variety that helps everybody learn from each other and from oneself through reflection. You are great being you. However you are, you are amazing. You don't need to be this or that way, being you is magnificent.
Be you. And being you and loving it, and accepting it, no matter if others don't accept it or don't like it; loving yourself you will understand why others love you. How others love you. The reasons there are, whether they are the ideas of what they think you are, or they really love you because what they know so far, is sufficient to determine that love.
Normality. Be normal. Don't. Just be you, whatever that looks like.