A depressive person is normie. A bipolar person is normie as well.
I don’t think healthy differentiating us from other people. We’re all the same (all normies), but each one has got his/her own problems.
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Yeah, there really is no normal. But there are definite degrees of abnormality, and most of us are on the far end of the spectrum.
Ya in aa we call non alcoholics as “normal people”. So normality is relative. Everyone is a little bit not normal. But I think it’s a little empowering when we use the term normies.
I’ve been told to many times, what I talking about or doing is not normal, later when better I have to agree
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I feel in Aa…no one is “normal”. But the disease of alcoholism makes you have some degree of “insanity”. But on this board we think of alcoholics with no mental health issues (which is rare btw, maybe 10%) as normals. But as I’ve experienced firsthand they are far from normies. So I think normies and not normies goes beyond sz. Normies are easy to spot but it doesn’t just stop at non szs. Although there are people who are more normie than others 
Normie’s a silly word though. It can easily be used insultingly, heh.
Yeah I prefer not to differentiate. Everyones got there battles
It sometimes annoys me when so and so says there issue is so much worse yada yada yada.
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A long time ago. As we were picking up walnuts. My stepdaughter said something about something not being normal.
I ask her who was normal.
She said she was.
I told her that made her abnormal, because she was the only one.
Not too long ago she told me that statement made her think, and change her opinion on somethings.
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Actually I don’t like the term “normie” at all. There’s no such thing as a normal person. You also can’t tell if people have a mental illness a lot of the time from face value, how do you know if someone you refer to even is a “normie”?
I generally don’t like terms designed to generalize an entire population as well as divide though.
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I believe “modern” medicine is still adhering to Cartesian dualism (a belief of 17th Century philosopher Rene Descartes that the brain and body are ontologically (roles) distinct). I disagree with Cartesian dualism, for I know of no compelling medical reason for the distinction. Thus I’m opposed to health being separated into “physical” and “mental” health. It should simply be health. For this reason I’m opposed to psychiatric hospitals.
Generally speaking, I see no difference between depression and diabetes.
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I tend to think of “normal” people as Typicals. That’s a term we’ve used in special education to differentiate between our kids with Autism, etc., and students/people who have more typically functioning brains. There may not be a normal, but there are actual disabilities that create a divide between those whose brains have greater challenges and those whose brains are more typically structured and functioning.
I absolutely differentiate between myself and people who have never experienced my struggles. I deal with a decidedly non-typical brain.
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I never use this word in a serious setting…I mostly use it because its a funny sounding word…they label us sz I label them Normie’s…but yea there’s no real normal…varying degrees of disfunction is a better way to put it…
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I have always said Normals don’t understand mental illness…blame the media for that one. I am not normal.
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I don’t use the term normie outside this setting, but when I do its not to draw attention to any social division. It’s the fact that typical people don’t think of mental suffering the same way I do, and for whatever reason I’m pointing that out. Having positive goals is important for sz, but so is recognizing why we currently can’t do what normies can do. Sz people need to be kind to themselves and go at their own pace. Sometimes only other MI people would understand that.
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We are all normies but with an abnormal disease.
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If you had a coronary problem a hospital would put you on a coronary unit. If you have a brain disorder you go to the psych floor.
I’ve got bipolar disorder and I’m far from normal.
In fact whatever part of me was normal before the disorder has been made abnormal by taking antipsychotics.
I don’t feel very normal when I’m shoved around to a hospital and treated like an animal 
I said I’m opposed to psychiatric hospitals, not “psych floor.”
Do they still have entire hospitals dedicated to psychiatry? I thought that was a thing of the past.
Why are you opposed to psychiatric hospitals? Where do you suggest they treat us?