answer:When my brother was about 5 years old, my mother found him outside the house a 3 am, in his pajamas in a snow storm. He was crying very hard. When she asked him what was wrong, he said “He killed them all, he killed everybody. There’s blood all over the place.” No one could figure out what he was talking about. This was way before the days of TV’s or video games. He was teased and mistreated all the time he was growing up. The other kids laughed at him because he talked funny and said inappropriate things. A teacher once hit him with a ruler because he was constantly drumming his fingers on the desk. He also ran his hands along the creases in his clothing all day long. Yes, the teacher was reprimanded. Brother once said to me “I know I am slow, but I’m not stupid”. Eventually his behavior became so bizarre he was placed in a State Mental Hospital until they were closed down in the 1960’s. His thought patterns and behavior are so different from other people that he stands out. He was officially diagnosed as being schizophrenic. I believe mental illness does exist. I recently read the wikipedia article on schizophrenia and I recognized several behaviors described there in myself when I was a child, such as hearing voices and having hallucinations. I apparently outgrew it.