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I found Riki's comment on

Submitted by vpizzini on Sat, 09/20/2008 - 4:05pm.

I found Riki's comment on certain mental illness and their effect on the creative performance to be very interesting. 

However, I also believe that creative talent is not something necessarily linked to a disability, but rather an innate quality that may manifest itself in some individuals more than in others. The cure for disabilities should not, in fact, be something that suppresses a natural talent or a particular quality, but rather something to help this talent or quality to evolve.

Especially in light of the type of society in which we live today, where mental illnesses are somewhat frowned upon, we cannot just appreciate the disabilities of a person only when that proves to be productive in artistic terms, and ignore the individuals in all other contexts.  Thus, a cure for mental illnesses would not be aimed at changing the person itself, thereby eliminating a particular creative talent, but, on the contrary, at helping him/her flourish in all fields of his/her social life.

 

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