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)

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)English
    16·
    18 hours 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.

      • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
        61·
        17 hours ago

        First definition from your link:

        conforming to a type, standard, or regular pattern characterized by that which is considered usual, typical, or routine

        I’m guessing the other person meant “the way it should be” not in a normative way but as in “the way you’d expect it to be since that’s the usual way”. That’s in line with the definition. Bottom line is both have several definitions but “normal” definitely has a very different connotation from “common”.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          23·
          16 hours ago

          I’m guessing the other person meant “the way it should be”

          That’s a pretty safe guess considering they explicitly said that…

          But I don’t think I’m going to make much ground explaining to you why they’re wrong either