Is it common. ARe the hearing voices of their angem guides
Full blown childhood schizophrenia? no. But I believe people who grow to be schizophrenics may have some symptoms when they are kids.
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I was diagnosed as Paranoid Schizophrenic at age 12. I think that is considered childhood onset. Regardless, it’s rather uncommon to be hit with that at such an age.
that must be harsh
being told you have a lifelong mental illness like PSZ when you are just a kid
on the Bright side you may be more likely to get in the routine of being med compliant at a young age.
I don’t agree with giving children labels and I think they are more cautious of doing that now. childrens brain don’t fully develop until they are much older there is a famouse coupl on utube who have I think its janey who they say is schizophrenic and they have made a living out of her so called illness. its acase of my child cant just be like any other child my child must be “special”
Childhood-onset schizophrenia (COS), characterized by onset before age 13 years, has a prevalence of approximately 1 in 40,000.
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Wow. Lucky me! That does get my hopes up. If I can hit those odds, maybe I can hit the lottery! 
LOL
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I had a delusion that I killed a family member with my thoughts at age 11, full blown onset happened at 18. I was schizotypal during my teenage years yet remarkably pursuing delusional dreams quite well, and I still have grandiose claims and ambitions, but the joke is that I make them actually happen! This game is fun
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But to answer your question, no, it is not common to have a childhood onset. Average age of onset for men is 19 and women is 24 if I recall. Or something very close to that. I don’t know what the standard deviations to the norm are. I should know. Now I’m gonna look that up.
Don’t have much idea.
do having a friend that not there or haering sprits around the house? then yes, my dr says i may have had pain all my life from early age that why im in the shap im in now
I had a delusion that I had shot my cousin who had committed suicide. She might have had Sz.
I think childhood sz is more common then stats imply. When pdocs etc refuse to diagnose at early ages then how accurate can the stats be? In groups and blogs I follow there are kids with sz and the parents and doctors already know it will be a sz diagnoses when older but won’t give the label now as children. Instead it’s ADD/ADHD, ASD…
@BarbieBF…is it that they feel embarrassed to give the sz diagnosis at such an early age
Since I’m not the treating pdoc 
I don’t know… I’m guessing it’s because it is so much harder with children to tell what is imagination or behavioral and what is symptoms. It seems to be the norm to not want to give diagnoses like this until the person has reached a certain age.
My son is being evaluated for schizophrenia currently . He has been hearing voices from the age of 10 and had visual hallucinations since fifth grade. He has aggression toward my husband and younger son. The Psychiatrist recently started him on Ambilify 2mg. He has never been hospitalized. His bio dad 's dad was manic depressed as well as schizophrenic as was this grandfather. I have recently been diagnosed bipolar myself. Any thoughts you could share would be appreciated. My son is 14 now and over six foot tall.
No it is fairly rare, generally sz does not develop until the late teens for boys and 20s for girls.
I saw a stat it was either 1 in 20000 or 400000 can’t remember still 100 times better then 1 in 100 for adults.
I wonder then if the reason he has been diagnosed so early is because he started puberty when he was 12 he has facial hair and full hair in other areas.
Could be…or he could be a victim of misdiagnosis. Be wary of putting him on medication, for children antipsychotics have been demonstrated to do irreparable damage to the brain, and it’s suggested they stick solely to therapy or alternate methods of treatment until they’re 18 at least. I’ll post the study done on this when I get home late tonight. This information needs to be made public. Antipsychotics were not designed to treat the brain of an adolescent or child.