All we knew was that Casper, with his genius IQ, his measured laugh, his wicked weltanschauung, was somebody really, really interesting to hang out with. A neighborhood kid like anybody else, only not like anybody else. One of us, only not one of us.
Over at BuzzFeed Books, T.C. Boyle reminisces about being friend with a schizophrenic and how this shaped his adolescence, life and writing.