Mental Stability and Ponies

Short blog entry today, yo.

I'm just wondering how best to convey a fragile mind through narrative exposition. People tend to think schizophrenia works only in the extremes, which isn't really the case, but I'm struggling to think how best I can portray a high-functioning schizophrenic pony (most likely from a first-person perspective, mind you).

Because being climbing-up-the-walls crazy is easy, but anchoring yourself down to what society calls "sane" despite your mental fragility is hard. Really, really hard.

Comments

[cranberyy22]

Well for the benefit of the doubt; there r no such things as ponies that fly or should I say unicorns, but hey they're still awesome and i don't hear the massies judging ones imagination so meh.. :/ .. SANE!! Is just wht others put themselves into.. Maybe they wanna feel better than others.. Or maybe they're just dicks.. Im guessin on the 2nd one.. But oh well :)

[Joseph Raszagal]

I suppose we could prattle back and forth about how one should never really view someone (or anyone) as "crazy", but it is a concept grasped by the world at large, so that's how I worded it. Taking into consideration how others might feel about the usage of words like "insane" and "psychotic", I guess proceeding with maximum political correctness in mind would be the nicest way to go about things, but walking on eggshells just hasn't ever been one of the tracks that I think along. Besides, I've always felt like there was a certain feeling of fakeness surrounding the people that do actively avoid the subject with overt political correctness, you know?

And now I'm rambling!

To finish all of that... I'm not going to summarize it at all and am instead going to reply to the first thing you said. Yes, there are no colorful, talking horses. That knowledge makes me a sad panda.