I was a schizophrenic once twenty years ago. It was both marvellous
and horrible. Nowadays I miss the voices. The drugs have taken that
away from me.
Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Erminia Passannanti wrote:
> Schizophrenics are not stupid, Dave, do not delude me: they are mad.(they
> have top-degrees and can be genius!!!)They are not idiotic, nor demented:
> they are "pazzi", "folli": do be diagnosed to be schizophrenic or maniac
> depressive does not mean , my God, to be an idiot or a stupid (which are
> equivalent of some brain lesions or pathology of the intelligence!)
>
> It takes such an effort to make you proceed logically and coherently, guys,
> these days. You seemed to all have gone bonkers (don't know the exact
> spelling, but I think I grasped the meaning from some kind of gestures
> accompanying the term in its local UK usage)....
> What' s wrong with you this period. You all used to be quicker,
> brighter...more engaging, more seductive,....ah,
>
> (Martin/Robin (can't remember who did it), exclamations are made with a
> vowal followed by an "h", not vice versa!)
> I feel you should go and look up exactly in the dictionary what
> really "stupid" is, and means.
>
> But no, you do not need to do that: look the way you all are behaving - in
> relation to this simple elementary issue - and you will see what stupid
> actually mean: slow minded, retarded (not loopy neither schizo)
>
> Erminia
>
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