Very interesting introspective piece by Mitchell Hashimoto describing how humans’ ability to adapt is reflected in an individual’s perspective and perception of the real world and normal. Of my generation, I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who nods in recognition of Hashimoto’s first observation of his skewed perception of “normal”:

None of my real life friends understood what I was doing, and my parents were concerned that I was acting abnormally. I had unintentionally changed my perception of normality to spending every waking moment (that my parents let me or didn’t know about) honing my programming skills in order to cheat video games. After all, that’s what all my internet friends were doing. It was normal!