I think hes schizophrenic too, its the only way I can excuse his behaviour

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If you're taking weird obsessive behaviour as a guide half the bliddy forums schizophrenic too then!
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There's absolutely no way he's schizophrenic, I can only assume you have a "layperson's" understanding of schizophrenia because... well... it's nothing like this. It's a pretty serious and obvious mental disorder.

I do have a psychology degree although I have never worked professionally in anything psychology related... so my opinion isn't a professional one either... BUT my thinking would be more along the lines of him being towards the "mild" end of the Autistic spectrum, maybe mild Aspergers that was never diagnosed in childhood. People who go undiagnosed with mild autism in hildhood quite often learn "techniques" to cover it so it's never really noticed, however, this very unusual, intense, highly social situation seems to be butting his "masking techniques" into overdrive and making him appear strange.

Reasoning:

- He is quite intelligent

- He thinks logically...

- ...but struggles to understand when people react instinctively when it doesn't comply with his "black and white" view of it (e.g. "how can you be too nice? Nice = good!")

- He's socially awkward with things he says and social boundaries

- His mannerisms and ways of expressing himself, including his "rants", don't feel natural... as if he's "acting how he thinks someone would act in that situation".

- His emotions are the same as above, e.g. when he got "upset" on the date with Charlie, and his "love that boy" tears with the Sam / Callum therapist thing. It's not that he doesn't feel these things, just that with an ASD (Autistic Spectrum Disorder) his emotions would be naturally internalised and not show externally - it's like he's learned at some point in his life that people don't like to see someone "emotionless" and so he's using learned emotional displays to show his emotions. It's not that the emotions aren't real... just that his externalisation of them is "faked".

- He gets visibly frustrated and agitated when people misunderstand him or his intentions.



...so yeah, like I say I'm not a professional but he is quite psychologically "interesting". He's certainly not "normal", but there's really nothing wrong with that. He seems harmless, just quirky, IMO.

Toy soldier that was a great post, and puts a different perspective on Callum, who I quite
like, I think the longer he stays the more he could improve.

My Mum and I were talking about Callum the other night and had come to a similar conclusion.

I think this why I find the vitriol levelled at him a little hard to take. Because if he is somewhere on the autistic spectrum, then this is essentially victimisation of someone with a disability, for that disability.

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Another Callum rant and you know who's fault it is.

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:rolleyes: It's always Dexter fault, isn't it?