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public conduct.
** Age: a child at the age of three could get away with taking off clothing in public, but not a person at the age of twenty.
** Gender: a male responding with behavior normally reacted to as female, and vice versa, is often likely to be seen as abnormal or deviant from social norms.
** Historical context: standards of normal behavior change in some societies--sometimes very rapidly.
* Failure to function adequately: behavior that is abnormal. These criteria are necessary to label an abnormality as a disorder,

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