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Old Oct 13, 2014, 03:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Angelique67 View Post
Good luck finding people suffering with schizophrenia in great numbers for that. Although I had jobs, never a marriage or family.
There are some. The professor that Russell Crowe portrayed in "A Beautiful Mind", as well as the law professor in California:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/op...upid.html?_r=0

What I wonder about is ... if the bar were set higher, people were encouraged rather than put down, would more people with serious disorders like schizophrenia lead much more "normal" lives? After all, they used to think that children with Down's syndrome were so hopeless they couldn't be educated, or ever contribute, and most of them were abandoned to rot as babies in state institutions, where they had short miserable lives. Now we know a lot better, many Down's kids go to high school, some to college, live independently or in small group settings, work, date, etc.