New to the site & to diagnosis (female/adult/USA)

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18 Sep 2014, 2:06 pm

Kiprobalhato wrote:
hello!!
welcome to the club. 8)

i like your avatar, i am familiar with louis wain. read a bit about him as a kid.
he may have been schizophrenic, on the other hand he may have been also an aspie!


Thanks! Yeah I've self-studied a lot about schizophrenia and psychosis and his art has some pretty fascinating insight. Although that image of the "progression of psychosis through his art" was somewhat falsified. Someone (I think it was a psychiatrist studying his work? I might be wrong there) laid out the work in that order to display the worsening of his mental state... But he was still creating more "normal" looking art while he was institutionalized, as well as the pattern heavy stuff. So it wasn't quite a straight progression like that. Still, you can see what his mind was doing with the colors and patterns, it's very interesting!