That’s the most logical thing I’ve heard all year.

We get frenzied when our insight is too high

Schizophrenia produces many symptoms other than hallucinations and causes profound cognitive and social dysfunction. Poverty of thought, delusions, and disordered thinking and speech among others. There would be signs others could see.

The sighted schizophrenics don't know their hallucinations aren't real. It's always an external diagnosis.

dude they're blind, not stupid.

1. If you know you're alone at home and then hear voices, that might be one way. There are ways to distinguish the presence of people beyond sight.

2. Blindness is much more than total blindness, which only describes a minority of blind people. There are different definitions, but the World Health Organization puts the definition as less than 3/60 or a visual field of less than 10 degrees in the better-seeing eye. That basically means that if you need to be more than 20 times closer to an object to be able to see the same level of detail, or you have almost no peripheral vision, you qualify.

Well, asking someone else who is around would be a good way, for one thing.

Related to synesthesia, perhaps?

Yeah, kinda. To explain it very simplified, you have a thinking brain, and an emotional brain, for example you are not either of these things, you are (we are all) observing those brain processes. Your thinking brain is designed to churn away, and similarly your emotional brain. In my interpretation, some people's parts are just louder and more vibrant. Which can have pros and cons, it's way more manageable if it's not so loud it's domineering. Having a thinking brain, that's essentially grown and formed by all of the input, until now, churning away loudly, isn't really a description of schizophrenia. It's more, a depth of perception of reality, both based on internal and external perceptions. This article is talking about the relationship between the ocular reception, as interpreted by the brain, though, so not really the thinking brain, or emotional brain.

I have bipolar and it feels like my brain just tosses things at me. I get some really good ideas and I am quick with jokes because i don't even think, my brain is an absurdity machine.

When I was in grade school, we had a music teacher who was blind from birth. If someone was jacking around in class, she knew where all the students sat and could identify the culprit by relying entirely on her hearing. It was impressive.

I remember long ago, watching a show where a blind teenage boy used echolocation to skateboard around. I thought it was the coolest thing.

Hehe and somehow you are the only person to let me know. Maybe everyone else missed it too. Thanks

my most common type of typo by far, and yet worse, it is usually words like "not" that I forget, resulting in funny although concerning miscommunications