Look I probably should have told you this before but you see… well… insanity runs in my family… It practically gallops. — Arsenic and Old Lace

For a huge portion of my life, I lived with the certainty that I, and by extension my family, was as screwed up as a football bat and everyone else lived perfectly normal lives.  One of the ways that I know I’ve matured is that I’ve come to realize that everyone’s messed up, and nobody had the Ward and June Cleaver experience.  Everyone has their drama, their setbacks, their weird family quirks.  Most of them are just quirks, some are dangerous pathologies.  But we all have them.  Knowing that your family isn’t as strange as you think they are will allow you to realize that you are not as strange as you think.  In fact, it’s the people who are perfectly normal that are bizarre.