How to Be Normal

How to Be Normal
Author: Guy Browning
Publsiher: Atlantic Books (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-06
Genre: Authors
ISBN: 1782395849

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From the bestselling author of Never Hit a Jellyfish With a Spade and Never Push When You Can Pull comes a new volume of answers to life's most troublesome questions.

How to Be Normal

How to Be Normal
Author: Phil Christman
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2022-02
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 1953368107

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A collection of essays by the acclaimed author of Midwest Futures

How to Be Normal

How to Be  Normal
Author: Daniel Tammet
Publsiher: Quercus
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2020-09-10
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781529410211

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An eye-opening short book by the international bestselling writer of Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers. Have you ever wondered how neurotypicals - so called 'normal' people - come across to those who are on the autistic spectrum? What would an instruction manual about being an average human being look like to them? And actually, would it be that different, fundamentally, to a field guide about autistic people (were such a thing to exist)? Daniel Tammet is an essayist, poet, novelist and translator. In 2004, he was diagnosed with high-functioning autistic savant syndrome. In this eye-opening and fascinating book, he takes readers on a tour around nightclubs, ponders the significance of tattoos, delves into anti-age creams and puzzles over playing the lottery, all from the perspective of someone who approaches everything in life from a unique angle. After all, this is a man for whom Wednesdays are always blue, who sees numbers as shapes and who learned conversational Icelandic from scratch in seven days. These short essays come together in a beautifully written, sometimes humorous but always refreshing narrative that focuses on the eccentricities of modern life as seen through the eyes of someone always on the outside. Rather wonderfully, it illustrates the eccentricity inherent in every kind of mind, reminding us of the little-noticed strangeness of our common humanity, while subtly questioning what it means to be thought 'normal'.

The Art of Being Normal

The Art of Being Normal
Author: Lisa Williamson
Publsiher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2016-05-31
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9780374302399

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An inspiring and timely debut novel from Lisa Williamson, The Art of Being Normal is about two transgender friends who figure out how to navigate teen life with help from each other. David Piper has always been an outsider. His parents think he's gay. The school bully thinks he's a freak. Only his two best friends know the real truth: David wants to be a girl. On the first day at his new school Leo Denton has one goal: to be invisible. Attracting the attention of the most beautiful girl in his class is definitely not part of that plan. When Leo stands up for David in a fight, an unlikely friendship forms. But things are about to get messy. Because at Eden Park School secrets have a funny habit of not staying secret for long , and soon everyone knows that Leo used to be a girl. As David prepares to come out to his family and transition into life as a girl and Leo wrestles with figuring out how to deal with people who try to define him through his history, they find in each other the friendship and support they need to navigate life as transgender teens as well as the courage to decide for themselves what normal really means.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal
Author: Jeanette Winterson
Publsiher: Knopf Canada
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2011-10-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780307401267

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Heartbreaking and funny: the true story behind Jeanette's bestselling and most beloved novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. In 1985, at twenty-five, Jeanette published Oranges, the story of a girl adopted by Pentecostal parents, supposed to grow up to be a missionary. Instead, she falls in love with a woman. Disaster. Oranges became an international bestseller, inspired an award-winning BBC adaptation, and was semi-autobiographical. Mrs. Winterson, a thwarted giantess, loomed over the novel and the author's life: when Jeanette left home at sixteen because she was in love with a woman, Mrs. Winterson asked her: Why be happy when you could be normal? This is Jeanette's story--acute, fierce, celebratory--of a life's work to find happiness: a search for belonging, love, identity, a home. About a young girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night, and a mother waiting for Armageddon with two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the duster drawer; about growing up in a northern industrial town; about the Universe as a Cosmic Dustbin. She thought she had written over the painful past until it returned to haunt her and sent her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother. It is also about other people's stories, showing how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights, a life raft that supports us when we are sinking.

No Such Thing as Normal

No Such Thing as Normal
Author: Bryony Gordon
Publsiher: Headline
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2021-01-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781472284129

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'Mental illness has led to some of the worst times of my life... but it has also led to some of the most brilliant. Bad things happen, but good things can come from them. And strange as it might sound, my mental health has been vastly improved by being mentally ill.' From depression and anxiety to personality disorders, one in four of us experience mental health issues every year and, in these strange and unsettling times, more of us than ever are struggling to cope. In No Such Thing As Normal, Bryony offers sensible, practical advice, covering subjects such as sleep, addiction, worry, medication, self-image, boundary setting, therapy, learned behaviour, mindfulness and, of course - as the founder of Mental Health Mates - the power of walking and talking. She also strives to equip those in need of help with tools and information to get the best out of a poorly funded system that can be both frightening and overwhelming. The result is a lively, honest and direct guide to mental health that cuts through the Instagram-wellness bubble to talk about how each of us can feel stronger, better and just a little bit less alone.

How to be a Normal Person

How to be a Normal Person
Author: TJ Klune
Publsiher: Dreamspinner Press LLC
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Eccentrics and eccentricities
ISBN: 1634765788

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Gus plans to become a normal person for Casey, an asexual stoner hipster. After all, what could possibly go wrong?

How to Appear Normal at Social Events

How to Appear Normal at Social Events
Author: Lord Birthday
Publsiher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2018-03-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781449490270

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How to Appear Normal at Social Events is an oddly cheering book of illustrated lists. Largely based on Lord Birthday's popular Instagram account, the book offers excessively absurd, occasionally wise advice on topics ranging from finding your life's purpose to defending yourself against forest clowns. (Hint: Set an oatmeal trap.)