[damion6]

Schizophrenia is genetic. So you're born with it. This makes zero sense. Maybe you mean shizo-effective which usually has to do with traumas.

[sakoht]

The odd thing is that among identical twins when one has it the other has it roughly 50% of the time. Which suggests that having the generic basis still requires something external, and it is common but not too common.

[timewizard]

Induced schizophrenia is well known. Your brain is not a machine. It's several independent chunks of meat that were assembled in situ. There are more failure modes than operational modes.

[11217mackem]

Nobody is born with schizophrenia.

[thephyber]

Parent most likely meant you are born with the predisposition for it to present when it usually does.