I was calling Josh an undiagnosed schizo over 5 years ago and each time I'd bring it up the subreddit always shot the idea down. His auditory hallucinations are sometimes lies but often aren't, he legit hears things that aren't there.
Maybe lies that are now truths in his mind:
- Shoutout at the Ozzy concert
- "Fuck I got into a car crash" (Josh performs a vengeful spell on a driveby heckler - it's also lifted directly from a magic book he recently read during a family break)
- Others in the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom during the 2nd documentary (A bit more than auditory, but who knows how much of it is true. He
does get casually picked on by strangers while out, but he does make up stories that I think he knows aren't reality until he repeats them so much over time the lies do become real to him. It's probably embellished, but he now believes it all.)
Probably legit auditory hallucinations:
- His family saying Alicia killed herself because of his trolls
- "The Atlanta Falcons are King Cobra's favorite football team" during a livecast of one their games
- Blair White shoutout on one of her videos as he was live watching it and she didn't say anything
The big thing for me was when Josh was at peak age that a lot of people start developing schizoid symptoms (late 20s), he was very heavy with the nicotine use. Big correlation of smoking and schizophrenia,
Wikipedia even has a devoted page. Personally most of the people in my life that were close to witness it and developed schizophrenic symptoms kicked their smoking into high gear similarly around their mid-late 20s/early 30s.
I think people forget how much Josh used to smoke, since most people watch clips and he's definitely cooled off a lot on camera since moving to the new place. He does smoke inside off camera, but even then, his alcohol need has taken over his tobacco obsession for sure. He'd chew a lot more, snipe hunt (or have Alex Anderson gather them for him as a favor), sneer at vaping, and had a lot more bags of pipe tobacco before the alcohol took over.
I get it's all armchair diagnosis and I dunno why Josh has been saying it now, maybe his family mentioned it over Thanksgiving. I personally think he's far less autistic than he claims (his family doctor shopped for the diagnosis and settled on it). The autistic Hampow twins were right at least in calling out that he hides behind it as a defense. I don't know how much I buy into the FAS diagnosis like a lot of people. He does have some of the look, but honestly his birth mother looks a lot like him and there's no hard evidence for FAS since she's a mystery. I do think he's massively depressed, has a lot of types of anxiety, and is generally just dumb. Like his drug use, everyone has theories and it seems like an endless and pointless debate topic.
Regardless, he said schizos shouldn't own guns a little while back in a Blair White video responce. So he may or may not be a lot of things, but he's definitely a hypocrite!