Saturday, 10 October 2009

Are norms normality?

You guys know what really annoys me? Society.

Well, not exactly the whole of it, because I can't blame my problems on the guy three doors down, but nevertheless! There are just some values here that I don't understand. Like, I think I was reading the thread on autism on the NaNoWriMo forums (to which I am addicted and so much in love with), and most of them said that a psychologist had told the person/their friend or someone with autism that feeling comfortable while naked should not be natural and is a sign of some mental weirdness.

Excuse me again, but what? How is not being naked around other people not natural? Especially if you think of it in the biological sense of being? It's what we were born with, and if the climate does not actually require clothing, we should technically be comfortable with it. Why are we not?

Because being naked is not a norm. Everybody in this day and age has grown up in an environment (excluding, of course, the minorities in which nudity is the way to go) where we have been taught that the moment you leave your house, you're supposed to be clothed. Right.

I can understand that to a certain sense, but I sometimes think that the values of today are going back to the, era (I can't remember the technical term for it) in which you just had to be covered from head to toe, and showing little skin would be extremely shameful. However, I remember times in primary school in which the girls would all have showers together in the seven or so showers in the change rooms, I remember undressing and dressing in the presence of 27 girls (in skating) and going to saunas in which there were entirely unknown people to me naked. I don't think that would be possible in the environment in which I am now.

What is the psychological reason for being uncomfortable when naked?

I don't geddit.

Oh, and I thought of this post only because I was going to run through the house to get something and then thought that maybe I should get dressed, since my parents always tell me off if I run around without clothes on.

.. Then I wrote this post without actually dressing. Hmmmm.

3 comments:

  1. You just wanna see everybody's naughty bits, don't you? : D

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  2. Yet when I turn up, fully clothed!
    that people, is called teasing:D:P

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