Some of the most sincerely fucked-up persons we've ever known promoted themselves as being examples of 'normal people' and their behaviour as 'what normal people do.' Not just that, but those particular individuals also repeatedly informed us that we didn't understand 'how normal people do things' because we had never gotten a chance to be exposed to it, and they were going to be the ones to show us how to be normal. Last time it happened, we finally wised up to the fact that there was nothing normal about continual emotional abuse and walked on them, despite their warnings that we would never be able to live or get along with other people if we ignored their 'help.'