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Flightless Bird

Schizophrenia Simulator

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Flightless Bird, David talks to someone who has schizophrenia. Christopher Grant talks about what it was like to grow up seeing the world a little differently than others, his growing struggles with mental health, and finally being diagnosed and treated. Chris now creates “schizophrenias simulation videos” which are watched by million of people. They are his attempt to let us see the world through the eyes of someone who sees and hears people, and entities, that aren't there. LINKS:This episode is based on original reporting from Webworm: https://www.webworm.co/schizophrenia/ Chris’ videos on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xoradmagical Chris’ videos on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@xoradmagical More of Chris’ work: https://linktr.ee/xoradmagical Upcoming Flightless Bird live shows:3/29 in Salt Lake City at the Depot https://bit.ly/flightlessSLC 4/2 in Austin at Emo's https://bit.ly/flightlessATX 4/4 in Dallas at the Texas Theatre https://bit.ly/flightlessDFW Join us for bonus episodes on Patreon: patreon.com/flightlessbird Contact us with your feedback: flightlessbirdchat@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey man. Hi, my little fresh turkey sandwich. How are you? Yeah, I'm good. Thank you.

0:11.4

Today's episode is about a man with schizophrenia who's created a kind of schizophrenia simulator, so people that aren't schizophrenic can experience what his world is like.

0:22.4

I am interested in schizophrenia simulator. I have not personally had schizophrenia, so I'd be

0:30.9

interested. Is it something that we are positive about? Like this is a good thing that he's doing?

0:36.6

Yeah, I think it's a really good thing.

0:38.0

It's, it's, uh, it's sort of an insight into a mental health condition that I think a lot of

0:43.0

us, uh, don't understand. So I think it's really great. Yeah, well, as we've seen recently,

0:48.2

there's a whole bunch of mental health conditions that people don't understand. We're speaking, uh,

0:53.8

just after John Davidson, the man with Tourette's,

0:58.3

accidentally, how do you even say it?

1:00.9

Axe said racial slur at the BAFTA Awards and people like slamming him,

1:06.8

which seems like there's a lack of understanding about that.

1:10.1

I think there's, if you don't, it's a funny thing understanding about that mental hack i think there's if you don't it's

1:12.1

a funny thing a we're all just meat sacks trapped inside our minds and we can only experience our

1:19.9

one brain and so everyone else is just a locked unknowable box and so it's impossible to really

1:25.5

empathize it with them and and to know exactly what they're

1:30.2

feeling like for instance i have no idea what fucked up stuff is happening inside your ears

1:38.6

you know between your ears at any moment and it's such a leap of empathy to sort of see you as a human being

1:45.1

and that's just in my personal life and I'm sure you feel the same way

1:50.1

and so like I think this is a really great thing that he's doing

1:54.5

hey before you go I had one other question often when I call you every

1:59.1

fortnight for this podcast I try and get you to go somewhere quiet and last when I call you every fortnight for this podcast, I try and get you to go somewhere

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