There's an old theory that people with a certain genetic inheritance develop a developmental disability called "schizotaxia", people with this condition tend to develop a "schizotypal" personality organization because of negative social learning (often associated with bullying in school) and then some of those people (who may have additional adversities, e.g. a "second hit") go on to develop schizophrenia
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16737381/
There is definitely such a thing as schizotypy but you've never heard of it because it is not as fashionable as autism and definitely not as fashionable as having autism and ADHD and dyslexia. Schizotypy may be behind this syndrome
https://www.amazon.com/Loners-Life-Path-Unusual-Children/dp/...
and may be the reason why I graduated from elementary school the way Ender Wiggin did. (People who noticed there's something a little odd about my HN posts are noticing I have just a touch of "thought disorder", which is much more fundamental, I think, to the schizophrenia spectrum than the auditory hallucinations that get talked about endlessly or the delusions which only troubled me once) So there's a grain of truth in the above comment.
I have often been appalled at how badly people on the schizophrenia spectrum get cared for.
Right now I have a friend who is almost certainly schizophrenic (no professional diagnosis) but doesn't believe she has a problem who lives with an elderly person who is a bit of a bleeding heart who's had a stroke and may have to evict her because he can't live with her anymore. She comes out to our place to visit but has a hard time staying more than 24 hours because cell phones don't work at our spot and she can't indulge in her pastime of blowing up people's phones. (e.g. she can easily leave 10+ messages in a few hours on our machine again) If she cooks she'll season our cast iron pans with 1/2 a cup of oil, won't believe that we're really going to eat all the apples we have on hand and will make apple cobbler as soon as we're not watching her)
Another friend had schizoaffective disorder (my diagnosis, she never got a professional diagnosis despite multiple hospitalizations) and had bad enough thought disorder that it would take her a
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16737381/
There is definitely such a thing as schizotypy but you've never heard of it because it is not as fashionable as autism and definitely not as fashionable as having autism and ADHD and dyslexia. Schizotypy may be behind this syndrome
https://www.amazon.com/Loners-Life-Path-Unusual-Children/dp/...
and may be the reason why I graduated from elementary school the way Ender Wiggin did. (People who noticed there's something a little odd about my HN posts are noticing I have just a touch of "thought disorder", which is much more fundamental, I think, to the schizophrenia spectrum than the auditory hallucinations that get talked about endlessly or the delusions which only troubled me once) So there's a grain of truth in the above comment.
I have often been appalled at how badly people on the schizophrenia spectrum get cared for.
Right now I have a friend who is almost certainly schizophrenic (no professional diagnosis) but doesn't believe she has a problem who lives with an elderly person who is a bit of a bleeding heart who's had a stroke and may have to evict her because he can't live with her anymore. She comes out to our place to visit but has a hard time staying more than 24 hours because cell phones don't work at our spot and she can't indulge in her pastime of blowing up people's phones. (e.g. she can easily leave 10+ messages in a few hours on our machine again) If she cooks she'll season our cast iron pans with 1/2 a cup of oil, won't believe that we're really going to eat all the apples we have on hand and will make apple cobbler as soon as we're not watching her)
Another friend had schizoaffective disorder (my diagnosis, she never got a professional diagnosis despite multiple hospitalizations) and had bad enough thought disorder that it would take her a