Context: A young adult tells his mother that he’s depressed and that life is meaningless and that he wants to die (suicide is not directly mentioned but implied). Then the mother proceeds to express “regretting giving birth to you” directly to that young adult.

(That young adult is me)

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Not normal, just uhhh… maybe common.

    Either you don’t know what normal is or common is if you think they’re different things…

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      3 months ago

      Cancer is not normal cell tissue, but it’s very common. They are different words, with different meanings.

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      3 months ago

      Maybe. The way I understand it:

      Normal is something that’s basically the way it should be, while common just refers to being of higher frequency of occurence, regularly seen.

      For example: “Is police brutality normal?” vs “Is police brutality common?”
      No and yes.