Has being on is it normal helped you in any way?

It has helped me a lot. I have been a member on many other forums and I think what makes this one is that you can respond to individual comments rather than the post in general, which lets the users interact more personally.
What has helped me is I have gained insight into how different people think and how my own behavior might be perceived by others.
I communicate much more clearly through text and have been to a lot of counciling therapy sessions but often have trouble remembering topics, where here i can ask something while I am thinking about it and recieve feedback from multiple people's perspectives.
The world is a very confusing place for me and I may never understand it. Maybe nobody does. But without this site I would not know where else to express my thoughts. People in real life rarely are willing to talk about certain things.

Is It Normal has helped me to feel less alone.

In some ways positive, in some ways negative.

Helps pass time.

it wasn't the advice i received but the advice i gave this site has given me much more confidence in my own beliefs and opinions.

It helps kill boredom.

I haven't been here all that long but I enjoy expressing my opinion and finding that other people feel the same way. I think being on this site has helped me to see a variety of perspectives which as bugsforbreakfast pointed out, is something you don't get to experience in such frankness and variety in reality. Other than that it does serve as an interesting past-time for me. I give advice, which some people appreciate and I consider the advice of others which helps with looking at problems holistically. My troll tolerance has also increased considerably ;)

IIN helps me live in isolation in an empty house in the suburbs. Despite working diabolical level sudoku puzzles, my cognitive skills are in decline. IIN does little to remedy that.

It's given me validation. A lot of it.

It keeps my mind active and I'm trying to learn not to bother with really idiotic posts ........ it's such a temptation for me to reply to everything but I'm learning o resist the temptation.

Some of the stories on here almost break my heart, because the posters seem so lonely and isolated I just want to hug them and find a magic wand to transform their lives.

I can't even remember how I found this site a couple of months ago: I'd never heard of it so it was obviously by accident. Anyway I'm glad I did, even when some posts make me want to tear my hair out!

Back when I used to use the member chat frequently I realised that I can actually be quite funny when I'm anonymous behind a screen and I was just too shy and needed that reassurance that people do enjoy my humour to really show it IRL. In that respect, it's helped me.

I think my reasoning skills have improved by how much I got in to discussions in the past. My grammar somewhat improved too, although I'm still not amazing at it.