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Finding normal is what we do when change happens in our life. It is perfectly natural to feel "off your game" when things change – whether the change is good or bad.

Losing friends, moving, falling in love, starting a new activity, getting a job, changing schools, experiencing divorce all can disrupt your life. Small or large, the change takes a while for us to adjust to, and find a new "normal." That new normal may be what you expect or see in others, but it may be a new normal for you – which is different from others. Below you can read stories written by teens who experienced "finding a new normal."

  • Belonging, by Madeline Macartney

  • A Positive Image: Self Esteem, by Amrita Dixit

  • Finding Where I Belong, by Tina Ma.

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To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful.
- Carl Gustav Jung

I’m not strange, I’m just not normal.
- Salvador Dali
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