[lutusp]

> Isn't it true that the geniuses of this world have very often been afflicted with mental abnormalities?

In a manner of speaking. People who prefer conformity, who think everyone should be the same, can't resist labeling smart people as "afflicted". This is a practice with a long history. The most recent, wildly popular effort was called "Asperger Syndrome", one that's just now being abandoned because of the damage it caused.

To someone who thinks everyone should be the same, anything that sets one apart in a behavioral sense is a "mental abnormality". But evolution by natural selection requires diversity, so in a more basic biological sense, it's the people who want everyone to be the same that represent the abnormal state of mind.

> Take the most brilliant mathematicians, engineers, scientists; so many of them faced such problems.

The problems faced by bright people are mostly caused by their dumb neighbors' belief that everyone should be like them.

[hoffcoder]

Again, the disorders I was talking about are not imaginary. They are diagnosed diseases like Bipolar disorder, OCD etc.