Normal = what is usual, standard, the norm.
adjective
conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal;
regular;
natural.
If a behaviour is standard it is because the majority of people do it.
Romans 1:26-27
New International Version
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
If a baby were to be born with a missing limb, then that indicates that something has gone wrong - because most of the time when an embryo is heathy and developing correctly, a baby will be born with 2 arms and 2 legs.
It's considered to be healthy and developing correctly, only because it was designed that way.
If it was not designed that way, then it can be considered healthy, by anyone who thinks it is okay. Am I wrong? Can you explain why I am?
I said that it is THEIR normal, because, unless a prosthetic limb can be attached to them before they can walk/learn to write etc, that will be all that they know. They may have to learn to crawl and get around with only one leg and a stump. They may have to learn to do things with one hand, or using their shoulders, feet or teeth.
After the mothers had been given Thalidomide, many babies were born with missing limbs.
Technically, they were abnormal - not conforming to the norm, and I dare say there were some who were told that. But the word "abnormal"
is, or has come to be, an insult, and leads to discrimination and prejudice - e.g. "you're not normal; we're not associating with you."
I did ask you to define what you meant by normal.
I thought I did define normal, and pointed out where.
What I'm saying is that you could look at a disabled person and think "they have physical or mental abnormalities. It is not normal to have missing limbs/Down's Syndrome/Epileptic seizures etc".
That - the last sentence. - is all I was saying.
But if that is all that person had ever known; if in the words of your OP they were "born that way", it will be normal for them to write with their feet or whatever. And saying to them, "that's not/you're not normal" is discrimination - and hurtful as no one can help how they are born.
If you were born with blue eyes, and into a family of 8 who all had green eyes, it could be said that you were not normal. But how do you think you would feel if people treated you badly/differently because of something you were born with and did not choose or ask for?
I'll have to finish this some other time; sorry, it's late here in the UK.
The rest of what you are saying is getting away from the point. It really is not relevant to anything, really.
I understand it, but it is dancing around the point. No offense meant. Hopefully no offense taken.
Continued.
Yes. Because to say that it is wrong would be to say that they are wrong; a mistake
Would that not mean that you are saying they are not normal, when you say
It is not normal to have missing limbs/Down's Syndrome/Epileptic seizures etc".?
By your own reasoning, it would, but I don't agree that automatically that is what you are saying.
Simply identifying and acknowledging a fact, is not referring to an individual as being abnormal, or wrong.
It is the twisted thinking of this world that results in our own twisted thinking - thinking that because people think a certain way, we must adulterate truth.
I got a scar from a pot of hot oil, so, because
that is bad,
I am bad. That's twisted, isn't it.
You are not bad, because
something bad happened to you. That is sensible thinking. Am I wrong?
To shun someone with a disability because they are considered to be wrong or abnormal, is not correct.
That is besides the point. It has no relevance to what is being discussed in the OP.
If you are making that point to that we should not shun a person because they are a certain way, that can be a subject for another thread.
The OP is not discussing shunning, or our response to people who are different - whether by choice, or circumstance.
Apart from the special needs school, my experiences were mostly with adults.
Cool.
It's kind of you to say that. But it's more that I care about people who find life difficult due to a disability; those who are, or have been, labelled as "defective", "slow" or "abnormal" and who, in the past have been discriminated against, or ignored, by society.
All of this is normal. It is the world we live in. A world that does not know God. Normal.
Do you have something against normal?

I can be hard on you, yes.
Aren't they?
I don't know enough about it and would need to do some research, but can schizophrenia, bi polar disorder and so on run in families?
It's complicated.
We can research together.
Is Mental Illness Genetic?
The exact causes of mental illness are not fully understood, but genetics appear to be one piece of the puzzle. Researchers have long noted that certain conditions tend to run families, partly because of genetics, but also because of environmental factors such as shared upbringing.
Certain mental health conditions appear to be more closely tied to genetics, and research suggests that there are shared genetic factors that appear to play a part in causing these disorders.
However, genes alone are not responsible for causing mental illness. And no single gene variant could determine with certainty that a person will have a mental illness.
In other words, just because you have family members with a mental disorder does not mean you will develop it.
My question is, how much role does heredity play, than mutations, but I'll leave it to the scientists to work out.
I don't deny the role of genes though, so I accept correction.
If a child was brought up by narcissistic parents, or by parents with a personality disorder, is there not a chance that that child would also be narcissistic, as that was what they had for role models?
I think there is a chance of children imitating their parents. A big chance.
However, would that not be environmental?
But that's a double negative.
It should be either; "it's not something that others have done", or "it's something that others have not done".
To say "It's not something that others have not done", means they have done it. Two negatives = a positive.
I highlighted it for you.
That is what I am saying. They have done it.
I'll have to get back to you later.