✧You are not normal (and that’s a good thing) - revolutionaryth0t✧

A video essay debunking the utility of the concept of “averageness” and discussing how the normality paradigm came about, who it serves, and what we can do about it.

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✧BOOK SOURCES✧
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism - Robert Chapman
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health - Micha Frazer-Carroll

✧SOURCES✧

The “average person” fallacy: the 150 year old myth that’s screwing up your service model and product strategy
https://sayyeah.com/digital-insights/...

There is No “Average” Person
https://publicmedievalist.com/no-aver...

MIL-STD-1472F handbook
https://www.denix.osd.mil/soh/denix-f...

How to design for everyone in 5 steps
https://www.fastcompany.com/90160000/...

When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages
https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/...

L’Homme Moyen and Monstrosities
https://filippomsposini.wordpress.com...

The Psychoanalytic Tradition in American Psychiatry: The Basics
https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view...

00:00 Intro
2:10 1. The average person does not exist
6:33 2. Health as normality
12:03 3. The glorification of averages
18:43 4. Eugenics bad, psychoanalysis kinda mid?
23:49 5. Anti-psychiatry
30:08 6. Unity through uniqueness
33:26 Concluding remarks