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To connect the unconnected, a feature also seen in which brain-disease, often associated with the erroneous associations (paranoia, over-association of noise as voices and faces). Show me your wunderkind and i show you the shizophrenia in the family.

I wonder if you could even retrain active run-away shizophrenic people to produce meaningfull creative outcomes. So lets go to the tenderloin and connect random physics and science wikipedia articles to a megaphone.

Schools out, but the learning is just getting started.

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Are you calling all creatives schizophrenic? Because, uh, citation needed, and that goes against my experiences of hanging out with nothing but creatives 90% of the time.

Us all being schizophrenic would be pretty revelatory if it was true.

Artists may be weird, but...

It was just implied that being a prodigy and being schizophrenic might not be far off each other.

Perhaps prodigy's are just the schizophrenics who are lucky enough to create value in their extreme heterodox thinking.

In some really basic way sure, but schizophrenia also causes definite excesses and deficiencies. They tend to be messy and bad at self care, they can see and hear things that aren't there, are subject to delusions, and can lack a normal affect

A schizophrenic cannot really stop/even know the association jump is weird, but a prodigy will know.

Difference is the people who see prodigies as schizos are narrowminded.

There is a big difference between not understood and being random.

I don’t believe schizophrenic thinking is random either. Unproductive maybe, but schizophrenic creative minds are not uncommon either, so cannot really define one against the other. In the process of being offended sometimes we indicate our biases.

> So lets go to the tenderloin and connect random physics and science wikipedia articles to a megaphone.

Is this word salad deliberate?

Nope, just someone who is familiar with San-Francisco.

The tenderloin is a neighborhood in San Francisco, one of the most interesting in terms of the street citizenry.

Oh jeez, I thought it was a take on the OP’s mention of neurodiversity within the post.

If you're familiar with Vancouver: replace with East Hastings

If one lives in the Bay Area this is an all linear meat grammar meal.

My mother was schizophrenic and very smart, I'm very smart and very creative, sometimes a little crazy, but not psychotic... yet, lol.

So this checks out. Your second paragraph is a little word salady.

My mind is always set to 100mph, until it's so tired that I fall into a mild depression. Then recover. Kinda bipolary. I think schizophrenia is what happens to creative brains with high connectivity and too much activation. The continuous activation causes excessive oxidative stress which eventual causes organic damage.

I agree with the first paragraph, but think the second paragraph conflates genetically linked mental illness with drug-induced paranoia, delusions, and general brain rot (which is rarely particularly creative).

  > So lets go to the tenderloin and connect random physics and science wikipedia articles to a megaphone

That is scary good of a description of what goes on in ADHD brains all the time.

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