About

Two things, at once.

This Is Why I'm So Normal is a website where people anonymously submit true stories about their family's dysfunction. It is also the sourcing engine for a slate of single-episode television adapted from the strongest of those stories, reshaped and identity-protected. The site isn't a marketing page that points somewhere else for the real work -- it is the real work, doing both jobs at once.

A public service

First, it is a guaranteed-anonymous place to say the unsayable about your family and get something back: a story editor reads what you send, and hands it back to you reshaped -- sometimes as validation and closure on its own, sometimes as the seed of something larger. Nothing is ever published or used without your own, separate, explicit sign-off.

A sourcing engine for the show

Second, it is the trust mechanism the eventual TV project runs on. Raw venting has volume but no craft and no protection; unscripted TV has craft but demands your face and your name. Nobody sits in the gap between those -- a trusted intake system that guarantees anonymity, applies real narrative craft, and has an explicit, honest path to screen. That gap is what this site was built to fill, and every story that reaches development does so because a real contributor trusted this pipeline with it first.