[ Alex slides his hands into his pockets and tilts his head to one side, his smile twisting into a wryer shape. He reminds himself that he's supposed to be behaving but, in all honesty, Alex isn't even sure what that means. ]

Everyone thinks in a way that's pretty screwed up at least once in their life. Arguably, thinking as a whole is pretty screwed up, only there's a single majority of people out there who think in the same screwed up way and have managed to convince themselves and some others is normal and everything else is screwed up. Which is, as these things tend to be, completely arbitrary, of course.