While this may be true, hearing that you&#x27;re useful is important.<p>As someone that society has basically forgotten about, realizing that I won&#x27;t be useful has recently crushed me.<p>I would not presume to speak for schizophrenics.  My quirks are bad, but not that.  But the welfare of a person is greatly improved by the feeling that they&#x27;ll be useful.<p>Deluding yourself into thinking you&#x27;re useful is much easier when there aren&#x27;t external forces making it entirely clear that this is false.  I can see that in a society without too much coercion, people with problems would be much happier simply because they aren&#x27;t called out to prove themselves on a daily basis.<p>I say &quot;called out&quot; rather than &quot;asked,&quot; because it fits much better.  The feeling that you have to do something very important is so pervasive.  If you&#x27;re not doing that, then what are you doing?<p>Which is why it feels like you&#x27;re called out to prove you&#x27;re useful, rather than requested.<p>I hypothesize that in a society that doesn&#x27;t do that, schizophrenics&#x27; welfare would be much improved.