My Homeless Brother Asked For $4,500 And I Said No…

BabyWrites
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7 min readJun 9, 2022

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Here’s why.

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My 29-year-old brother has paranoid schizophrenia. He’s suffered with it since he was in his late teens, and it’s progressively gotten worse.

If you’re curious about some of his symptoms or want to learn more about his particular brand of schizophrenia, you can later check out an article I wrote here:

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BabyWrites
ILLUMINATION

Novelist (MG, picture book, & YA) and stay-at-home stepmom | Here I write about science, history, mental illness, & anything that I can’t get out of my brain :)