Faces of Mental Illness: Schizophenia

We all know what schizophrenia is, right? We've seen schizophrenics in movies and on TV.  We normal folks know how scary they are. So here's a little frightening entertainment for you today, showing a real live schizophrenic:

Yup. Scary, huh? It's amazing what meds and therapy can do.

Widdershins Crochet: or, How Handedness (and Difference) Affects Everything

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I was recently at work and had a free moment, during which I pulled out crochet project I was working on. As I worked, one of my co-workers watched me and commented on my being left-handed. Then she asked me a question. She said her grandson, who was 4, was also left-handed and she was worried about him because he didn't write properly, as she put it. She said he did things like writing a 3 and then a 1 when writing '13'; he would put the numbers in the right order, but she found it upsetting. He would also write the round part of the letter 'b' before drawing the line connecting it, and so on. His handwriting slanted the wrong way too, according to her; it leaned rightward and downward. There were no left-handed people in her family so she wasn't sure what to do about it. She was thinking of forcing him to write with his right hand so that when he went to school he would sen normal to the other students.