What is normal?
I've never had much incling to be normal. If we were all the same, all clones life would be a lot more boring. No one would have developed all the different things and gadgets and ideas we have and sometimes take for granted wouldn't be.
Pre-Judge
Who am I to pre-judge anyone else? Who is anyone to pre-judge anyone?
I stopped at some services early yesterday morning with Maria (long story) There were some people wandering aimlessly around. My immediate thought was "That's a bit weird"
The fact is the likelyhood was that they had been and probably were still on a long car journey. They were more likely or not to just be stretching their legs a bit. It is wrong to assume. Maybe they were just weird and were some strange cult of zombies that meet up in service station car park to wander aimlessly before dispersing into the ether only to return the next day to repeat their ritual.
Weird? Maybe not. I think that is how I would have felt. Hence my pre-judgement and a reluctance on my part to replicate their behaviour. That's why it took me so long before I was confident enough to run on the streets rather than hiding in the woods all the time. I would have felt weird.
Mental Health
Mental health issuse are sometime seen as a brain disorder. I'm not going to come up with reams of medical evidence. I'm just going on my observations. Mainly of things I have read... on the internet 
Is it really a brain disorder? Or are they just different?
Any one who goes out and murders someone - a planned murder cannot be right (bag of worms. I'll put the lid on that one because I've immediatly come up with exceptions)
Is a mental health issue really down to a brain disorder, or a traumatic experience of some kind and that persons reaction to it. A reaction they use, maybe as a way to protect themselves because they don't know other ways to do so. A reaction that over time becomes so ingrained it is very difficult to change.
A coping stratergy.
One that the individual has chosen. Maybe not the right method but if they can't think of anything else, or if they have tried something else and it's failed.
When that individual is very young and doesn't know any better for whatever reason. That person is alone. They aren't offered any help. When help comes, well, it's not for the original problem. Alas, the original problem isn't mentioned. It is the symptoms of the problem that are looked at. If the individual is too ashamed of what happened, thinks it was their fault and doesn't tell anyone. Well is it really a brain disorder? Is it ever? Unless there has been obvious physical injury.
Maria told me on Thursday. She'd had told me a very edited version a long time ago.
Her words:
"My dad messed around with me when I was young"
"I didn't tell my mum because I didn't want to hurt her"
"He said if I told anyone they wouldn't believe me. I wouldn't be able to prove it"
"I told him if he touched me again I would scream so loud everyone would know about it"
nb Maria is not her real name.