Am I Normal? Why normal people don't exist.

Before the 19th century, the term ’normal’ was rarely ever associated with human appearance or behaviour. Normal was a term used in maths, for right angles. People weren’t normal; triangles were. But from the 1830s, this branch of science really took off across Europe and North America, with a proliferation of IQ tests, sex studies, a census of hallucinations – even a UK beauty map, which concluded the women in Aberdeen were “the most repellent”! This talk tells the surprising history of how the very notion of the 'normal' came about, how it shaped us all, often while entrenching oppressive values. Sarah Chaney looks at why we’re still asking the internet: "Do I have a normal body?" "Is my sex life normal?" "Are my kids normal?" And along the way, she challenges why we ever thought it might be a desirable thing to be. This is the 200-Year Search for Normal People.....and…