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My grandfather (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/skeptic@lemmy.world
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I was on Facebook and found this post shared in a group I'm in. That's my grandfather.

I could tell you a lot of stories but the most important one is that he was an undiagnosed schizophrenic. There are stories I can't even tell because I have to wait for more people to die first.

I've heard him on Coast to Coast and seen a number of interviews with him in the alien conspiracy industry. But not one of them ever mentioned, and he never volunteered, that he was an undiagnosed schizophrenic.

Remember this when you hear people speaking with authority about things they can't back up.

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[–] 26 points 9 months ago (5 children)

What am I being enslaved to do, though?

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    • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    First thing I thought was schizophrenia.

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    [–] 15 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    How would he know to volunteer that information if he was undiagnosed?

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    • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Anyone with that hairdo obviously has amazing judgement and should be trusted wholeheartedly

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    • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    What did your grandfather do for a career? Did he grift and live on that? Or was it more of a compulsion/obsession/hobby?

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 9 months ago

    He didn't start doing aliens for money until long until retirement. That's when he started writing his books, books I thought would never get finished, and being public about how aliens telepathically communicated with him.

    As a career he was an engineer for defense contractors back in the day when all engineering happened on a drafting table.

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    • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    this looks like the alien, in resident Alien show.

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    • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    so SCRIN aliens of command and conquer.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    They didnt really come to enslave so much as was concerned the local wild life on their mining op was still alive and actively fighting each other and the scrin, baited them to building a space teleporter, and then kicked scrin out the planet.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    funny thing the franchise planned thier return to earth, but was scrapped by EA being greedy.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    And EA went with a very odd alternative.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    cnc4, was so wierd and standalone. they thought they could target the asian market with that game, by making a wish .com starcraft. and they tried to money grab with tiberium ALLIANCE for some reason, i actually played and used the "free offers" get currency, eventually it became too hard without actually BUYING into the game so i abandoned it to focus on my classes.

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    • [+] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)
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    • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (5 children)

    Edit: My question was answered elsewhere....

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Was it about the toupee?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    No lol, i was asking how you knew he was schizophrenic if he was undiagnosed.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Ah. Understandable. Dude was literally in the ER and the doc wanted to remove the hearing aid debris that was stranded in his ear canal. He is screaming that they can't do it because the aliens will stop talking to him telepathically. Even though the aliens had been talking to him telepathically for decades before he got hearing aids.

    Eventually his wife, my grandma, has finally, after all these decades, had enough and told him that if he didn't let these docs remove the debris that was causing extensive pain that she was going to leave him. He would have died within days without her because he didn't know how to cook a TV dinner or have any other other essential life skills. He finally caved. The voices did not stop.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Fair enough. I wasnt asking because I wanted to throw shade, it was a genuine question, as I have never knowingly been around schizophrenia, and I dont know that I could diagnose it if I was.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 9 months ago

    It's a unique disease. Very clear diagnostic criteria.

    Though he didn't have one normal trait. Did you know that almost 90% of schizophrenics smoke? It's not diagnostic but that's a really high rate given that only 1% of the population is schizophrenic yet they account for 5% of smokers.

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