Check your walls tonight.
I used to have a really good friend with schizophrenia.
We worked at a really small dive bar together, he was the cook, the brother of one of the owners, and I was the bartender.
He was extremely talented as a cook, and actually one of the best rappers I have ever heard, connecting words and concepts as only a schizophrenic can.
But he was paranoid. Never against me, but on Friday/Saturday nights, when we had to have two cooks in the kitchen, he would invariably accuse the other cook of somehow sabotaging him.
And after the pandemic shut out bar down, we remained friends, and actually went out to watch the BLM riots together.
One time he came over to my apartment, and brought a nail from his apartment over. He told me it was a listening device.
I got out my bolt-cutters, and cut the nail in half, to show him there was no circuitry inside.
It didn't really matter, there is no proving to a schizophrenic he is not being listened to.
He was a really beautiful man, and it sucks that he is dead now.
Schizophrenia is a horrible thing. I knew two people who took their lives over it. One jumped, other overdosed. I'm starting to believe that it's not genetic as they wanted us to believe autism was, because I'm stating to hear of more and more people that are schizophrenic, even in teens.
even in teens.
That is weird, it was always supposed to be a disease that manifested in the late 20's/30's.
But I do always get the feeling schizophrenics are onto something we aren't noticing; their delusions aren't accurate, but the way they can logically connect disparate concepts seems realer than logic itself.
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