I don't know. To me, any programmer looks a little insane, no matter of their motivation. Because how can you write code 5 days a week and stay alive?

I do program but I treat is a nessesary evil which has to be done to solve some issue I have. I won't be able to write a codebase which may or may not be deployed in a year

Just tell people you're a mathematician in a logician's role. They'll assume you're a maths teacher, doing amateur magic to make money.

Not most of the super programmers I have met, they have always seem like they are bit off to me.

coding as a job look normal? Right now they would look like an Indian engineer, kind of like me. So if that's not normal, then probably not.

some of us can pass as human