I always felt it's because their "madness" sometime gives them unusual insights hence they are considered genius.
/shrug
I always felt it's because their "madness" sometime gives them unusual insights hence they are considered genius.
/shrug
When your ideas are frequently stifled by the norms society creates, you start to lash out against those norms. Any hard working person can have knowledge, true geniuses are creative and don't even have a box that they think in.
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Ignorance is the root of all evilsIgnorance is bliss
I think those of use that bear more intellect than the average human being lose sanity when dealing with those that are considered unintelligent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histori...dered_autistic
I resent the term 'madness' in this thread.
OP:
I'm very clearly mad.
Why can't I be a genius, too?
The two aren't linked. Madness, however, can give some insights that sane people don't get. That is mostly because sane people don't have to look beyond the safe borders, and when you're mad, 'safe borders' aren't actually present.
So my hypothesis is: Madness and genius aren't linked. Madness is sometimes mistaken for genius. As it was in my case. I was clearly labelled 'genius' by several psychologists and tutors, but in reality, I am of average intelligence. I'm just also insane.
You'll never know, geniuses wouldn't touch this forum with a barge pole, in fact they don't even go anywhere near the internet with a barge pole .
A: Because there's a much easier explanation, which I gave in that post.
B: Personal reasons, but I could give you quite a long list that starts somewhere with 'depression' and ends somewhere with 'psychotic displacement episodes.'
Being insane doesn't cause me to suddenly lose all capabilities of coherent writing.
Last edited by Stir; 2013-01-29 at 04:20 PM.