Was I Ever Normal is a novel in verse that invites us into the head of Cassie, a young girl with childhood-onset schizoaffective disorder, who is desperately crying for help and trying to cover up her symptoms at the same time creating a web of lies and a revolving door of psychiatric hospital admissions that only serve to further entangle her in her world of mental illness. Cassie shows us what it’s like to not know if we can trust what our own five senses are telling us and even escorts us into the taboo world that is a children’s inpatient psychiatric hospitals.