They say children are more intelligent than people with schizophrenia. They say a child at least knows right from wrong but not a person with schizophrenia.
I told them its a spectrum and some of them are very intelligent. But they don’t believe me. This secretly pisses me off since I am diagnosed myself. But of course, I don’t have schizophrenia because I “act like a normal person”.
Welcome to the forum. I never noticed u on here much b4.
Yes there are some smart sz ppl.
My mate has sz and he is very smart. An avid chess player and really knows some things.
That I don’t.
Thank you, I post very infrequently indeed. But yeah, some people with schizophrenia can be very intelligent. It’s a spectrum so some are intelligent some not, some aggressive some not, some insightful some not.
It’s a stigmatising stereotype that all people with schizophrenia are dumb/child-like. I wish my uncle and mother would pick up a book and read about schizophrenia.
In my country, my psych nurse had to visit me with my whole family at my home, for several weeks on a weekly basis, to discuss about the reality of psychosis and medication. It also included me talking about my experience and family asking questions, under the case workers presence.! Thought that was sweet.
Not sure they do dat in America, especially cos u don’t have a national health system
Please tell your dad he’s a chundering idiot for me.
It sounds like your relatives are pretty uninformed. 
I don’t know why some people and families insist on making up their own definitions for words such as schizophrenia. I think it was the logic and mathematics lecturer Lewis Carroll who poked fun at such attitudes with a fictional character saying something like: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.”
Words have meanings. Schizophrenia has a meaning that many people don’t accept.
A person with sz may not be able to know in psychosis what they are doing is wrong as the law requires it, but that is only during psychosis. A person with sz generally does know right from wrong, just not in some psychotic states.
So it’s one of those logical statements that “Most schizophrenics know right from wrong most of the time”. Compare that with someone without sz and it is not much different.