I acknowledge your point. I am thinking, though, of crazies who have enough objectivity to see that other peoples' sense of reality doesn't match their own.
(And I use the word "crazy" only because I have taken in the last few years to using that word to describe myself, as several of my friends [some of them our mutual friends] can attest.)
Oh, sure. I think your statement is dead-on then. But you're including in "smrart" the assumption that the person has an investment in social relationships. Usually a person with any level of functionality does, so you're pretty safe. ;)
Thing is, I don't really apply "crazy" until the person does things like NOT being able to tell that their thoughts would seem bizarre to someone else. But as my supervisor says, "after a while of being a therapist, crazy people start to seem normal." :)
And I use the word "crazy" only because I have taken in the last few years to using that word to describe myself I spent several years identifying as "stupid, not crazy"
My colleagues and I joke that we don't count as part of the "sane" population because we're in graduate school. We find ourselves substituting "no person with an ounce of common sense would do that" for "no sane person would do that" on a frighteningly regular basis. I'm starting to think we're right.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsyche![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-13 07:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-13 07:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-13 07:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-13 07:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-13 07:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-13 07:38 pm (UTC)(And I use the word "crazy" only because I have taken in the last few years to using that word to describe myself, as several of my friends [some of them our mutual friends] can attest.)
(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-13 08:21 pm (UTC)Thing is, I don't really apply "crazy" until the person does things like NOT being able to tell that their thoughts would seem bizarre to someone else. But as my supervisor says, "after a while of being a therapist, crazy people start to seem normal." :)
(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-13 11:02 pm (UTC)/pointless
(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-13 07:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-13 07:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-13 07:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-13 07:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-13 08:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-14 01:32 am (UTC)