Some people don't like confidence. They resent confidence.

Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do.

I'm confident. Some people don't like confidence. They resent confidence.

I spend most of my life naked. In fact, I often have to be told by the people around me that it's inappropriate to be as naked as I am.