[garganzol]

To ordinary people, a genius is often indistinguishable from an illness. We should keep this in mind before jumping to immediate conclusions.

[stavros]

Are you saying the symptoms of genius and schizophrenia are the same? Because that contradicts my experience with either.

[garganzol]

Genius tells a factual truth, a schizophrenic lies and is delusional. Usually, both types are highly intellectual. To an uninitiated external observer, there may be no difference between the two because the observer may be unaware of the truth yet.