For me it is today
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About 2015
I am comfortable being alone
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I can pretend to be normal and hang out with normal people.
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Always felt like it but understood it likely in art high school lol
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I’ve never been “normal”. I’ve always been the weird one
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I can sometimes.. ive gone stretches in the past being accepted and liked… but either I had symptoms, got too drunk or high, or withdrawn into myself and disappeared from society. I prefer being alone when im healthy and strong… but its been a challenge lately as im a bit infirm.
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I crave being social but also hate it. Its good for my mental health to be around other people. But its a big struggle to act normal.
A workaround can sometimes be to hang out with other crazy people.
It just sucks that a lot of the time those other crazy people are drug addicts or not good to be around etc.
All i know for sure is that isolating myself for long periods will not go well for me mentally.
Gotta juggle the balancing act of it. Surf the anxiety waves. And so on and so forth.
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Most of the friends I’ve had had a mental illness. I’ve been friends with a few other schizophrenics but I had a couple of “normie” friends. At the time, in the 80’s it was no big deal, I just naturally acted and sounded normal effortlessly. Now, I wonder if I could do it again.
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birds of a feather flock together
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I can be around normal people at the work place if my mental illness is not disclosed to them. One needs to work with normal people if a schizophrenic is to be employed. Just work as a normal employee or worker and your colleagues and superiors will never know.
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i have social withdrawl long time ago.
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i can but then i realize they are insane but just dont know it
I can hang with normal ppl…just not a whole crowd of them.
about 30 years ago when I was 15 and started to withdraw, this continued until I met my gf then at least I had someone as a partner.
I’ve been more out going since moving 10 yrs ago, I was doing pretty good in college in 2013-16 then I joined my clubhouse 2017 and I made new acquaintances,
I have a few people I would call friends but mostly I am alone.
Perhaps a bit odd question to ask. After all no one is really “normal” as such. Normalcy is just a social game people play due to the nature of the species. But perhaps that is the rub, being too aware of this phenomenon. Should just play along they say. But not really a “normie” in any case, that illusory definition. Far away from people person or crowd pleaser, that much is certain. Realized this setup a long time ago, perhaps too true all in all. But maybe something inborn anyway, no way changing it realistically. Definitely mental problems do exacerbate this brutally honest perspective. Besides this time we live in tends to atomize individuals anyway, where is the “normalcy” in all that. How do I calibrate my keeping appearances in relation to society if it increasingly seems completely fragmented, chaotic and oddly curated experience to witness? Seems fiendishly complicated, especially if one inhabits supposed margins of society. Thank you for taking a part in deconstructing normalcy. 
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My best friend is a normie we get along fine. We’ve been friends roughly 34 years. Long time. There were a few times where I thought he was a part of a God cult trying to make me marry God but that was schizophrenia other than that things have been good. We’re around the same age so we have the same frame of reference when it comes to things.
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when i was bullied in the 5th grade