(July 1, 2011 at 4:16 am)FaithNoMore Wrote: Sure, schizophrenics are awesome. Putting yourself in their shoes, however, is difficult to say the least.
I don't try. I just try to avoid expecting too much of him. We were really close growing up and he was always a little different. He got more different as we got older and he had all the difficulties one would expect and I would stress myself out trying to get him to have a normal job, car, life, mindset, etc. All we did was fight at that time. Finally, I had a meeting with his social worker when I was getting him out of the hospital one day and I left fucking determined to understand what the hell was going on with him. I haven't stopped learning about schizophrenia since and he and I get along much better.
