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Wimpy Kid Got Schizophrenia?

I’ve been a regular consumer of the Wimpy Kid series.  Sometimes I get sick of reading books with too many words in them. So it helps to have pictures. Haha. I may be 40, but I can think like a kid, all right. So I was really thrilled with the Wimpy Kid Series when it came out. Now there are so many copycat series, but he’s the original dude and you’ve got to give him credit for that.   So when I saw the ebook of Diary of a wimpykid- Double Down by Jeff Kinney , I grabbed it. I think kids with mental illness should read this book. Or ‘normal’ kids should read it to understand kids with mental illness. Because the first few pages describe the symptoms of a kid with schizophrenia. But it’s all creative and fun and the mental illness word hasn’t been dangled to put people off.    Adults too can read it to figure out what it’s all about. Back in 2013, when I was in Bangalore, I went to Crossword all bright-eyed and bushy tailed to pick up Double Dork Diaries Parts 1 and 2 b