Weird

Here is something which won't surprise you: people are weird. We have obsessions, odd habits, idiosyncrasies, neurosis, fetishes, addictions, compulsions and anything else you can imagine. We also like to know we aren't the only ones with a particular penchant for something. 

I think about psychology and the normalization of things as society progresses. Decades ago homosexuality was considered a mental illness and yet it has been a consistent subset of humanity as far back as the dawn of humans; the same goes for gender variant behaviour. Finally, we settled on the idea that personal suffering would be the barometer to gage whether something fell into the category of illness. 

As it turns out "normal" refers to statistical standard that most people fit into but was actually measured based on life lived on the surface. If we measured behaviour behind closed doors as well as propensity we would get less uniform results. For example, there are gender variant people who only practice it behind closed doors and would never admit to it. This is the way western society functioned for millennia. 

Living in a society filled with fear of judgement encourages anything considered aberrant to stay below the surface. When the Kinsey studies came out in the late 1940's we saw that sexual orientation existed on a spectrum. Harry Benjamin showed the same with gender expression and identity. 

Yet even within these subgroups there are people that stretch beyond the level of comfort of what has been deemed acceptable for membership in a club of faithful already christened with a name and description.

They are considered too weird even for the rest of us weirdos.