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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
by tomc1985 4y ago
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...
- tiborsaas 4y agoIt was just implied that being a prodigy and being schizophrenic might not be far off each other.
- anonporridge 4y agoPerhaps prodigy's are just the schizophrenics who are lucky enough to create value in their extreme heterodox thinking.
- tsol 4y agoIn 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
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- szundi 4y agoA 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.
- cgio 4y agoI 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.