God Has an Epic and Unruly Imagination

June 30th, 2009Blog2 comments

I just got back from a fun wedding where there were little kids running around doing goofy things. They had Kevin-from-the-movie-UP dolls, and were having lots of fun and being little kids.

In juxtaposition, here is an LA Times story (with video) about a a six year old kid with schizophrenia. This is easily one of the most interesting and sinister stories I’ve ever read.

She sees imaginary animals and names them after numbers. One is a cat named 400. She is loving and sweet one moment, then will suddenly start biting and kicking people. She has an IQ of 146. She needs 300 milligrams of Thorazine to manage her psychoses. She lives in an imaginary place called Calalini. “Calalini is on the border between this world and my other world,” she says.

This is a really creepy, heartbreaking, and weird existence. The parents and doctors are at wit’s end. It makes you wonder how people can live like this — the little girl and her parents, I mean — and illustrates the inner strength that human beings are capable of.

I have no real analysis of this story. I don’t know what to make of it, other than I think it should be shared with others. Hug your kids and tell them that you love them. And if you don’t have kids, be glad that your connection to reality is solid and stable.