Normal Normal, Who's Got the Normal

Looking on the top part of the page here, I see a box marked Normal. Not for the first time, the question crossed my mind "Who determines normal?"  Me, I have never, ever thought being normal was a good thing --just a boring thing.  Somewhere in the range of safe and hiding from the excitement the world has to offer.  Probably I thought that since nobody has ever accused me of being 'normal'  I am way extreme in everything I've ever done. It's not normal for a teenager to race halfway across the world with no resources except her brain.  Believe me --from Kentucky to California is more than halfway across the world both in geographical  and sociological dimensions. Nothing after that was ever what you would call 'normal,' and so somehow I became Ruth Adkins Robinson.