A diagnosed schizophrenic be normal
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Sure they can. Where do you think “you don’t seem schizophrenic” came from?
my two sisters could not believe I was diagnosed SZA yesterday when I told them since 2000, I felt very happy about this from them
20 years later lol
Maybe it’s a possibility for some people.
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Yes I think Im mostly normal except for meds
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If you feel better and have things together that can be your own normal. If someone feels better, then that can be their normal. Not everyone feels the same. Normal is subjective. It’s the value people put upon it.
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I think Schizophrenics can be perfectly normal with the right meds and security — I myself for example live a normal life independently however it took a lot of hard work to get here
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When any one hears my dx they always say they’d never have guessed.
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Scz? Whaaaat? NO ***** wayyy! 
I guess our secret is not visable to the naked eye ha
I think I have a good life and I’m stable, but I’m not like normal people at all.
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If comparing myself to my wat-would-have-been-me had I nt fallen ill, we are very different people.
I don’t know if I will ever become normal again, because I suffer trauma from the psychosis and I try to make all my decisions based on how this may affect my risk of psychosis. its tiring and not always the right decisions are made but it is not always black and white to decide
I think mine is. People always make fun of me in a way that makes me feel dumb or slow to respond.
Today I went out to buy fish and chips. I asked for a hake and chips and the guy behind the counter says ok, it’s R39. I said but the menu says R59. Ok he said, make it R49. When I paid he rang up R59.
I think he was checking my responses because I don’t look too sharp. Things like this happens to me all of the time.
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BTW I am on sz side and understand !!
I never wanted 2 b normal anyway…!
I usually go about my life assuming that I come across as “normal”. But then, people tell me that they can tell I’m an “emotional basket case”, or they tell me that I “shake”, or they tell me that I have an irritating “flat affect”, or they tell me that they can tell I’m “on psych meds”. Things like that. And that just knocks me right out of my comfortable “normal” world.
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Yes, we’re all normal except you, pedro. Or was it the other way around? I keep forgetting. Is that normal?
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I think having sz gives us a bit more character and is something interesting to say to someone. Of course where I live people are not that open minded so I have to treat it like the plague. I don’t consider myself normal because il always shout at my cat and in hotel rooms but only when I’m alone and in these places. I used to do that before I got sz as well and I was even more crazy back then.
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