This is a rumor that they are very good at math and so are children with autism?
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Those who suffer from Schizophrenia good at math?
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I never heard that rumor. People tend to associate certain mental illnesses with being very smart. I don't really know if there's a link there.
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I really don't want a mental illness if it means being good at math or art or whatever.
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No link with Schizophrenia. Symptoms of schizophrenia are more typically about thought disorder than enhanced abilities. Some people with bipolar disorder are high achievers (Churchill, Beethoven maybe etc). Autism is a very broad spectrum - some autistic people are highly skilled in a particular area but it doesn’t necessarily follow.
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It was hard for me growing up i had epilepsy petit mal seizures about 200 or more a day. I was in special ed classes for this reason growing up i was in only the 2nd percentile meaning 98 percent of children my own age had higher academic scores than me in nearly every subject. Early on however I was stated to nearly excel in math and went to regular paced math classes early on before switching to all regular paced classes in fourth grade. I did well in math or decent all through school, in college however i never really got above a D in a math class maybe I did not try hard enough. Today I have a bachelors in psychology and have developed a love for reading the most books I have often read about 2 books a week as discipline, but lately with my condition I don't have the focus I use to. I still am reading and finishing about a book every 2 weeks. I have studied my Bible many times, and i love reading, i read for hours a day at times, but not always and really lately I can't do much with focus sometimes medication works other times not, and the one medication that helped with focus my current doctor won't prescribe for some reason.
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The medication that helped with focus was Clozapam. I am on Depokate now, Lexapro and Loxapine.
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