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5041318 No.5041318 [Reply] [Original]

Was he actually crazy, or was it all just a facade to sell books?

>> No.5041329

DEFINE "CRAZY".

>> No.5041331

>>5041329
Schizophrenic.

>> No.5041333

His 8000 page diary was clearly crafted as something that would sell easily.

>> No.5041335

>>5041318
>Did he abuse amphetamines as part of an elaborate ruse to sell books?

No.

>> No.5041339
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>>5041331

NO, HE WAS NOT, NOR DID HE PRETEND TO BE.

>> No.5041340

>>5041318
He was just a little bit crazy, all good writers are.

>> No.5041366

>>5041339
It's well known that he was schizophrenic, you huge fucking idiot.

>> No.5041387

>>5041333
Yup, he alienated his friends and family so as to get all that hip schizo cred.

>> No.5041390
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>>5041366

IF HE HAD BEEN SCHIZOPHRENIC, HE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FUNCTION RELATIVELY WELL IN SOCIETY, AS HE DID, AND CERTAINLY, HE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO WRITE CONSISTENTLY AND COHERENTLY, AS HE DID.

JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE IS NOT A "NORMALFAG", OR NEUROTYPICAL, LIKE I PRESUPPOSE THAT YOU ARE, DOES NOT ENTAIL THAT THEY ARE SCHIZOPHRENIC.

>> No.5041394

>>5041340
Define "little bit" and take a step back and understand that PKD was a bit more than just "A LITTLE" crazy.

>> No.5041405

>>5041390
>>5041339
Could you just stop posting on this board, please?

Do you ever wonder why everyone here thinks you're a fucking idiot?

>> No.5041407

Just a gnostic

>> No.5041438
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>>5041405

>Do you ever wonder why everyone here thinks you're a fucking idiot?

Leave this board.
You are too summerkid for this board.

>> No.5041448

>>5041405

actually he's fairly intelligent (and slightly tongue in cheek). only decent trip we have.

>> No.5041452

>>5041448
This

>> No.5041456

>>5041438
Taking off your trip and writing like a normal person does not make a convincing argument.

>> No.5041460

>>5041456

>can't even check for samefag

>> No.5041472

>>5041460
>won't quit sucking cocks

>> No.5041479 [DELETED] 

>>5041448

the posters who take shots at him are usually newreaders who can't into even basic lateral thinking

i feel bad for kids who are so new that they actually get confused by him

>> No.5041508

>>5041390
I'm a schizo and I function relatively well in society. Shit most of 4chan would call me a normalfag if one were to ignore the veritable pharmacy I have at home.

Not all schizos are completely balls to the wall crazy.

>> No.5041515

>>5041508
You just stated you have a ton of medication. PKD would not have taken such medication.

>> No.5041526

>>5041390
Why do you assuming simply having schizophrenia means that you must conform to only the most extreme and intrusive cases of it? Why do you have such a inflated image of what schizophrenia is?

>> No.5041545

>>5041448

>> No.5041552
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>>5041456
>>5041460

lol rekt

And if you seriously think REI would drop trip just to samefag a response then you are clearly too new to know how devoted he is to the creative act that is his autism.

He actually serves as a rather nice bellwether to weed out the posters who are too new to be posting on this board. All the posters who rage at him and tell him to post "like a normal person" are too shit to be here.

>> No.5041568

>>5041515
Even when I'm not on my meds I'm still able to function relatively well. Shit I only started meds last year and I had been working for at least four years before that, was in college and had graduated high school. My illness manifested while I was still in highschool.

I can imagine the /lit/ lifestyle would fit a schizo very easily.

Tbh I don't actually know anything about PKD, I just was a little offended of the idea that people suffering from certain mental illnesses are completely unable to function. I understand disorganized or catatonic schizophrenics can be extremely impaired, but most paranoid schizophrenics are able to function in daily life.

>> No.5041576

>>5041568

>I can imagine the /lit/ lifestyle would fit a schizo very easily.

I'm not a schizophrenic, but I'd imagine that no lifestyle would fit a schizophrenic easily.

That's kind of the point.

>> No.5041580

>>5041568
The meds aren't even really for the more "out there" symptoms, they're mostly for my depression and anxiety.

>> No.5041588

Crazy and too much drugs

I doubt it was to sell books because the quality got even worse as he deteriated

>> No.5041603

>>5041568
What delusions do you have? I have a friend who's schizophrenic, and when that shit kicks in, he goes off the fucking chain.

>> No.5041732

>>5041390
I'm Schizaffective, you retard.

I can write coherently and appear normal to most people.

You have absolutely no understanding of mental illness, and you're an absolute idiot.

>> No.5041745

Both, of course.

>> No.5041753

>>5041552
I've known him since 2009 in /tv/ and I was always bothered by him.

He's literally an autistic pedophile and no, that does not make him a cool ''oldfag'' or part of ''board culture'' and being angry at him does not make me a ''normalfag''. It's not funny to be pathetic. ''lel we're so crazy and weird 4chan is so cool stay out normalfags!!11 xD''

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>>5041753

This post is a perfect example of why he is a worthwhile trip here.

He enrages subpar posters who have trouble with lateral thinking.

>> No.5041819

>>5041793
Unfortunately, all his efforts to do so are nullified by filtering. By the way, you should consider getting a trip.

>> No.5041837

>>5041793
Please do explain what this had to do with ''lateral thinking''.

>> No.5041954

haha dicks

>> No.5041976

>>5041753
>xD
Newfag. Fucking newfag.

>> No.5042156

>>5041753
I sorta used to be like this, but then I realized that if he would kill his own mother with a magic spell, he wouldn't think twice about some asshole on the internet who said nasty things about him.

Granted, I'm still not really down with the Kiki, Ada, and Wanessa trip, I think concepts like that should have ominous Latin names and not Sassy Fat Black woman names.

>> No.5042187

>>5042156

But those aren't "sassy black woman" names

>> No.5042294

>>5042187
*Proud and Forthright body-positive WoC names
privilege check'd