This has been nagging me for a while, and I can't believe that such an obvious contradiction made it as far as the 5th printing of the Core Rules without a correction/clarification.
under the description for Confused condition on pg 566 it states:
"A confused creature is mentally befuddled and cannot act normally. A confused creature cannot tell the difference between..."
So it says specifically, and the first thing to boot : CANNOT ACT NORMALLY
...and then the first entry in the Behavior table states that on a roll of 01-25 result is:
(drum roll, please)...... "Act Normally"!
*Smacks forehead*
It really makes me wonder just wtf they do at Paizo all day in regards to solid game rule content. Pretty pictures and better fonts are fine fluff and sells to the noob, but what we really need is a better system that works, period.
Anyway, (no thanks to the rules book I bought that was supposed to fix 3e issues and not create more of them) my houserule fix is thus:
a roll of 01-25 results in the character wandering 10' in a random direction, the direction being determined by a d8 roll.