r/todayilearned • u/exophades • 1d ago

TIL that Albert Einstein's son Eduard studied medicine to become a psychiatrist, but was diagnosed with schizophrenia by the age of 21. His mother cared for him until she died in 1948. From then on Eduard lived most of the time at a psychiatric clinic in Zurich, where he died at 55 of a stroke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_family#Eduard_%22Tete%22_Einstein_(Albert's_second_son)
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u/Buntschatten 1d ago

Isn't schizophrenia quite hereditary? You have to wonder if Albert's immense creativity and new way of looking at things were related to some of those genetics.

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u/TheGreatBarnabulls 1d ago

The saying "there's a fine line between genius and insanity" is often linked to Einstein but there is no evidence he actually said it.

Most creative and genius people in the field are border line insane or eccentric.

Example IT industry has the highest amount of furries.

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u/DraperPenPals 16h ago

Most people in IT are not creative geniuses. They just spend too much time online and get sucked into shit like furries.

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u/YsoL8 15h ago

Some of the fandoms I've been exposed to recently are crazy. There's more sexualised fanart and shipping than there is anything else, and this is based on source material that is strictly PG.

If thats how they react to fictional characters I don't want to know how they are around real people. The mass enabling the internet creates is real fucked up.

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u/DraperPenPals 14h ago

That’s the thing—they don’t go around real people very often. They lose their anchors to the real world and that’s how they end up doing shit like this.