# What's the actual meaning of "If you don't develop schizophrenia by 30, you most likely never will?"

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**Created:** [February 12, 2023, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-actual-meaning-of-if-you-dont-develop-schizophrenia-by-30-you-most-likely-never-will/979670 "2023-02-12T18:38:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-actual-meaning-of-if-you-dont-develop-schizophrenia-by-30-you-most-likely-never-will/979670/21 "2023-02-22T21:57:47Z")

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> [@Velocity](#):
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> born with the inner schizophrenia time bomb but as they reached age 30 their brain gradually “hardened”

I wasn’t really going for this effect.

> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> morons who wrote the aphorism & popularized it didn’t actually understand how to write unambiguous sentences

Yeah. This is it.

> [@griffin1977](#):
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> schizophrenia usually develops before 30

If at all, yes. I think this is what somebody was trying to express, though they made it more complex and put it off the mark.

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