Shape outlines change size when skewed. Is this normal?

Good Morning InDeisgn Experts and Gurus,
I created a shape in InDesign CS5, and applied and outline to it of 4px. However, when I skewed the shape, the size of the outline changed on the sides.
Is this normal? How would I remedy this, besides creating another but slughtly larger shape? See attached image.
Thanks.

I never noticed this before, but it seems the shear tool applies a live transformation at the original object -- you can see the shear angle in the control panel, and change it to something else, or even set it back to 0 to get its previous shape. Apparently, its outline is sheared along with it.
I know of only one way to force the transformation to "reset" to nothing: draw a very small rectangle right on top of your red object. Give it the same fill-and-stroke as the red object (use the Eyedropper tool for this). Select both, and then select Add in the Pathfinder panel. You will see that (1) the shear value in the control panel disappears, and is reset to 0°; and (2), the outline will behave normally.

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