So, Who Said That! Try to guess first who said that, and if you don’t know, you’ll see who it was at the very end of the article. Remember to scroll very  s l o w l y.

Sometimes it is so obvious. That someone is very different from “the rest of us normal people”. And even if you add “more” before “normal”, it doesn’t much change the fact that there is no normal , and being “different” is an illusion. For there is nothing normal about not being different, and being different is just so very normal.

Someone once said the sentence here below, and that brings us to the “obvious” in the beginning of this piece: handicap - be it physical or mental - is not being vastly different from having slightly strange looks or an invisible idiosyncracy. It is just more obvious. And all our attempts to appear normal - for whatever reason we want to do that - are perhaps futile, and certainly diminish our uniqueness. So, who said:

You don’t need to be handicapped to be different.

Everybody is different.

This person was very different from most of us, sure. He looked like no one else, and thus was easily recognized and easily recognizable. He lacked something that most of us deem important, and mastered something that most of us can only guess,

the original Rain Man, the American savant Kim Peek. Who by the way is now thought to have had FG syndrome instead of having Autism Spectrum Disorder and severe intellectual disability. But think also of this: according to World Health Organization, around 15 percent of the world population has some sort of handicap, i.e. around a billion people. That’s one big pool to find differences in. If that is what you desire.