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From the Ted Talk by Rosie King: How autism freed me to be myself

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But if you think about it, what is normal? What does it mean? Imagine if that was the best cmneopmlit you ever received. "Wow, you are really normal." (Laughter) But compliments are, "you are extraordinary" or "you step outside the box." It's "you're amazing." So if plopee want to be these things, why are so many people striving to be nmarol? Why are people pouring their brilliant individual light into a mold? People are so afraid of variety that they try and force everyone, even people who don't want to or can't, to become normal. There are camps for LGBTQ people or autistic people to try and make them this "normal," and that's terrifying that people would do that in this day and age.

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But if you think about it, what is normal? What does it mean? Imagine if that was the best __________ you ever received. "Wow, you are really normal." (Laughter) But compliments are, "you are extraordinary" or "you step outside the box." It's "you're amazing." So if ______ want to be these things, why are so many people striving to be ______? Why are people pouring their brilliant individual light into a mold? People are so afraid of variety that they try and force everyone, even people who don't want to or can't, to become normal. There are camps for LGBTQ people or autistic people to try and make them this "normal," and that's terrifying that people would do that in this day and age.

Solution

  1. compliment
  2. normal
  3. people

Original Text

But if you think about it, what is normal? What does it mean? Imagine if that was the best compliment you ever received. "Wow, you are really normal." (Laughter) But compliments are, "you are extraordinary" or "you step outside the box." It's "you're amazing." So if people want to be these things, why are so many people striving to be normal? Why are people pouring their brilliant individual light into a mold? People are so afraid of variety that they try and force everyone, even people who don't want to or can't, to become normal. There are camps for LGBTQ people or autistic people to try and make them this "normal," and that's terrifying that people would do that in this day and age.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
autistic people 3

Important Words

  1. afraid
  2. age
  3. amazing
  4. autistic
  5. box
  6. brilliant
  7. camps
  8. compliment
  9. compliments
  10. day
  11. force
  12. imagine
  13. individual
  14. laughter
  15. lgbtq
  16. light
  17. mold
  18. normal
  19. people
  20. pouring
  21. received
  22. step
  23. striving
  24. terrifying
  25. variety