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This is going to be another one of those "Conditional" posts that a few of my fans are fascinated with, because it tends to argue for either side.
The main point I'm going to make is that it depends on two things:
1) The Mental Illness, itself
2) The Person, their' ethics, morals, and view of the world.
While people with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, or several other forms or Autism, have been successfully married for years now, some other illnesses do not allow the person to have a sufficient view of the world to be married, or to even understand a relationship.

For example, lower, or higher functioning forms of Autism inflicted on people mean they either have no concept of social laws/rules((not to mention frequently no concept of speaking, or humor, or several other things)), or worse, they know these things, but have such a high IQ, that they realize exactly how pointless, disturbing, and distrustful they are, and refuse to adhere to them.((Sound Familiar, to any of my fans out there? I'm not surprised.))
And that's exactly the other point I'm trying to make. The person themselves, define whether such a difficult, but rewarding, concept such as marriage can be successful.
I'm going to give you two examples of the same illness, however, I'm going to define their' character, after. You will probably notice how big a difference it can make.
Both of these individuals suffer from high-functioning Autism.
If you aren't sure what that is, either look it up on google, or, lucky you, I'll give a brief, but not all-encompasing description.
High-Functioning Autistics are very brilliant, with IQ's usually topping 165, 170((Average being between 129 to 139)), but often have problems dealing with society, because of some of it's more illogical social rules. These people tend to either REQUIRE to be in a mental institution, because they are incapable of running their' own lives, or are brilliant enough to figure out how to mask themselves, to allow society to accept them.

Both of these individuals are from the same family. They both have similar taste in women, they both look alike, they have similar interests((Video Games, Computer Programming, etc.)), they even have very similar tendencies((Fascination with wearing only particular clothes, and refusing to wear anything else, knowing that they are excellent cooks, but hating cooking, and perhaps the most amusing, is the absolute dislike of any father-figure)). Their' IQ's are only 3 points apart, and they are

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