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Normal Sucks
Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive Outside the Lines | Jonathan Mooney
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Confessional and often hilarious, in Normal Sucks a neuro-diverse writer, advocate, and father meditates on his life, offering the radical message that we should stop trying to fix people and start empowering them to succeed Jonathan Mooney blends anecdote, expertise, and memoir to present a new mode of thinking about how we live and learnindividually, uniquely, and with advantages and upshots to every type of brain and body. As a neuro-diverse kid diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD who didn't learn to read until he was twelve, the realization that that he wasnt the problemthe system and the concept of normal weresaved Mooneys life and fundamentally changed his outlook. Here he explores the toll that being not normal takes on kids and adults when theyre trapped in environments that label them, shame them, and tell them, even in subtle ways, that they are the problem. But, he argues, if we can reorient the ways in which we think about diversity, abilities, and disabilities, we can start a revolution. A highly sought after public speaker, Mooney has been inspiring audiences with his story and his message for nearly two decades. Now hes ready to share what hes learned from parents, educators, researchers, and kids in a book that is as much a survival guide as it is a call to action. Whip-smart, insightful, and utterly inspiringand movingly framed as a letter to his own young sons, as they work to find their ways in the worldthis book will upend what we call normal and empower us all.
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PageShifter Thousand times YES!! This is so beautiful message and so important. I always love to share thoughts about this because sometimes I feel myself a bit strange. I don't live my life like major part seem to do and I try to think it's okay. But there is days when seeing something like this makes me feel warm. Thank you. 2y
wanderinglynn @PageShifter 😘 we are all weird and wonderful. ❤️ 2y
Bookwormjillk Yes x a million! 2y
MatchlessMarie Yes! Normal is just a setting on the dryer 😉 2y
wanderinglynn @MatchlessMarie exactly! ❤️ 2y
Jerdencon Absolutely!! 2y
bthegood Yes!! ❤ 2y
Laughterhp Yes! 2y
Susanita I stopped coloring my hair and learned to embrace the gray 2y
KathyWheeler Yes! 2y
Chelseabillups30 YES AND AMEN!! 🙌🏻🙏🏻👏🏻 (edited) 2y
Allylu Yes! 2y
Bookgoil Yes!!!! 🙌 2y
julieclair Normal is eating the fries that come as the default side dish with lunch at a restaurant. Changing to vegetables or a salad is much more colorful and interesting! 🍟 vs. 🍆🥗🥦🥒🥕🌽🍅🥬🫑🌶 2y
Roary47 Yes! Who wants to be normal anyway? 🤪 2y
5280reader Yes- right on! 2y
Read4life Yes! Be the individual you were meant to be! 2y
Cheshirecat913 Yes! Thank you for encouraging us to be who we are! 2y
CoffeeNBooks Yes! 🙂 2y
Moll Ooo I like this! 2y
wanderinglynn @Susanita awesome! 🙌🏻❤️ 2y
OriginalCyn620 YES!! 😉 2y
Lynnsoprano Yes. 2y
julesG Lynn, normal is so overrated. Everyone wants to be unique, yet no one wants to be not normal. It's a paradox. 😁 2y
wanderinglynn @julesG agreed. It‘s hard to go against what society deems “normal” even if we logically know that conformity is a way to manipulate and control people, especially minorities. 2y
BookishBelle Yes! I never was normal no matter how hard I tried. 2y
BookwormAHN Yes 😸 2y
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Yes! Whether I'm considered normal or not, I am unapologetically me since 1979! 2y
mcipher Yes! I raised my son to be proud of being weird because being normal is boring!! 2y
wanderinglynn @mcipher ❤️🙌🏻 2y
Maggie4483 Late to the party, but…yes! I expend so much energy trying to conform to whatever “normal” means to whoever I‘m with at the time, that I‘m not really sure who I am anymore (and I know no one else knows the real me). I‘ve been wondering lately what would happen if I just showed up as Maggie for once. 2y
katy4peas Yes! 💕 2y
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4/5? A thought-provoking at times humorous read about the origins and stigmas of normalcy and how to rewire how we regard them.I admired his ideas on changing the outlook on what normal and not normal is. People's abilities, diversities, etc, instead of shaming them come at it with a different approach of acceptance and celebrating our differences instead of trying "fix" them.An enjoyable, compelling and eye-opening read. #bookreview #nonfiction