@MBM
If you're talking about a leveled attribute (IRL), why not just push further, i.e. don't set a limit. Like I said, it depends on the context. In the context described before my post, trying to have a normal number of friends, or normal number of relationships, or exhibit a normal emotional response, etc. would fall under the pointless exercise category. Essentially, trying to rate the social "normalness" of a person.
So if we're talking about an autistic child, who I'm going to instinctively assume doesn't exist, but will treat him as a hypothetical (standard practice of disbelief, not personally motivated). It would make even less sense to strive for normal, when the goal is just to improve, and continue to improve his skill sets.
On a side note about "value", I value those who fret over normalcy very lowly. The low rating I give all of them is an extrapolated interpretation of those kinds of people based on a smaller social set of observations, in that I've always found them to be so utterly uninteresting.
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