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Re: Do people think you're weird or different?

Posted by S. Howard on December 3, 2000, at 19:02:37

In reply to Do people think you're weird or different?, posted by Sandee on December 2, 2000, at 18:33:59


Sandee-
Oh sure they do. However, this puts you in excellent company (besides us).

There is good evidence (admission to an asylum or psychiatric hospital, alcoholism or drug addiction, suicide or suicide attempt)that throughout history, many extremely gifted people suffered from severe depression or manic-depressive illness. Here is a partial list:

POETS-
William Blake
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Emily Dickinson
T.S. Eliot
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allen Poe
Ezra Pound
Anne Sexton
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Dylan Thomas

WRITERS-
Hans Christian Andersen
James Boswell
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Charles Dickens
Ralph Waldo Emerson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Herman Melville
Mary Shelley
Robert Louis Stevenson
Leo Tolstoy
Virginia Woolf

COMPOSERS/MUSICIANS
Irving Berlin
Noel Coward
George F. Handel
Charles Parker
Cole Porter
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Robert Schumann
Peter Tchaikovsky

ARTISTS-
Paul Gauguin
Vincent Van Gogh
Michelangelo
Adolphe Monticelli
Edvard Munch
Georgia O'Keefe
Jackson Pollock
Dante Rossetti*

Okay, from this very partial list, consider all the incredible beauty and awesome talent that these "wierd and different" people brought to the world. Now consider the Joneses, who believe you're a "departure from the norm", and what they've contributed to the world: a need for more tract housing and grocery-getters.
It would be a drab world indeed without us.
-Gracie
*Source: "Touched With Fire" by Kay R. Jamison


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