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Normal
  I have a normal face
  A normal nose
  Normal eyes
  And normal hair
I always thought of myself as normal.
  I have a normal body
  But instead of legs 
  I have wheels 
  I have a big blue chair
To me this is normal.
  I have a normal life
  Mine can be harder than some
  But I still have to learn 
  And I can still play sports 
I was always treated normal.
  I normally go out in public
  Though I don't like to
  I feel them staring 
  I catch the little kids pointing
They don't see me as normal.
  But I look normal
  To those who know me
  In fact my friends think
  This wheeling chair is cool
They don't like being normal.
  One normal day at school
  We were learning about 
  The human skeleton
  On the inside we're actually the same 
That's when I began to think what normal was.
  I looked around for normal people
  But no one was the same
  My friend Kara wears glasses
  And my friend Caleb wears a kippah
Then I knew there's no such thing as looking normal.
  Out of the norm I raised my hand
  "There's no difference between us. 
  Everyone looks the same on the inside"
  The whole class agreed with me
I actually felt like one of them. I felt normal.

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This poem (although not entirley the same) was inspired by the book Wonder