I wonder: I wonder if LGBT teen brains are tarnished because of homophobia.

Well this is about schizophrenia... I'm not sure you can say we're all more schizophrenic because of bad adolescences. I feel like a stunted 18 year old though because i have little to no teenage experience having spent a lot of time in a school where I had no friends. like i've experienced parties, love, jealousy, alcohol, kissing, having a large group of friends and having to navigate that socially, actually doing work, developing my identity, style, trying and failing to come out, everything in about 1 year. and that's again a whole extra bit of stress on top of the anxiety caused by years alone because it should not all be done that quickly! Don't think I'm schizophrenic though haha. I have however, lost the ability to cry and had some depressive months.

 

No, I don't think so... Otherwise the majority of many countries (where caustic homophobia is the daily bread and butter) would not be capable of half of what they are capable of, be it on arts, mathematics...

The mass of the brain, or how it looks like has little to do with the complexity behind the whole connectome. True that any amount of stress has negative consequences on development, but the brain is different to every other organ in the sense that it is capable of stablishing and rewiring itself through all your life, and you'll find proof of this everywhere. If you don't see more proof of it, the root cause is the effects of social conditioning, not the capabilities of the brain.

... Which means once you remove the cause of stress, the affected organism will slowly try to recover itself, because of human resilience, which is caused by the insctinct to survive (of course this theory is very controversial, but it is there and has been proven)

I give little credit to all theories that claim 'brain development' (we perhaps mean the expanding of intelligence, reflected on learning new skills) must only take place between the ages of X and X, but that is another highly controversial theory. It might take longer for an older brain, but it is as capable of getting there as a younger brain.

 

Other than high stress, low memory and constant paranoia I'd say mine works fine... No schizophrenia or anything.

I've got to wonder how it feels to have none of that though, it must be nice. If I could actually calmly sit down and think clearly for a while my ideas would be so much more vivid and complete and I'd likely be a better artist because of it.