""This is one person who has a similar diagnosis to Terry who then goes on to say "I dont have these .... symptoms"". Good for you. I am happy for you. (truly

""This is one person who has a similar diagnosis to Terry who then goes on to say "I dont have these .... symptoms"". Good for you. I am happy for you. (truly) But to then extend that to everyone with a similar diagnosis, as some form of universal fact is entirely wrong. Delusion and paranoid delusions are common symptoms of schizophrenia¹. Common does not mean everyone for sure has them, just that many do. In so far as schizophrenia does not make you racists that is true, but you do not get to pick your delusions. They may be an amplification of existing opinions, but for many they are not. Further to blame a person who is delusional for having a view of the world that is not normal, well that is the entire description of delusions. Can you blame a person who stutters for stuttering? Thus one should extend a lot of tolerance to a person who has a terrible illness that no way is self-afflicted and one that we do not yet have a dependable cure for. I am certain that at some point in this life Terry desperately wished to be “normal”. Farther into it, and getting deeper into the illness the understanding of normal vs abnormal may be a difficult concept to understand for the person. I have had schizophrenia in my family, and I have visited her at the hospital. Where there were a lot of other schizophrenics. Clearly only those who suffer a lot and who may become violent ad self-harming, ends up at such a place long term. Some of the people there had an incredibly different reality that they existed within. We should extend a generous amount of tolerance for people who are ill and suffer from this. To get angry and tell them to stop and tell then they are wrong may well cause a deeper fall into paranoia. This is not something people chose. Nor is it something we have a reliable cure for. Some can be greatly helped with medication and / or therapy. Other not. ¹ https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/schizophrenia/symptoms/ https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/schizophrenia/sy... https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/schizophrenia/what-is-schizophrenia https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/schizophrenia/w...