acceptance of others to be as they are and to never expect a...

acceptance of others to be as they are and to never expect a similar regard is possibly my simplest explanation. i8 think you addressed that most eloquently. aberrant behaviours abound in everyone. we none of us escape the trials of our younger years unscathed, unscarred.

weird is a word that have subtle differences and perhaps I used it too readily, too extreme a word for the context. though the hyperbolic can convey a point more succinctly, it can cause confusion.

your fine line covers a wide gamut of difference. and deviance begins in small measures. yet the label "deviance" too is misleading damn these adjectives. ahhhehe