Usually schizophrenia doesn’t develop until late teens or early 20’s. So I was shocked to learn that a rare and small percentage of children also develop the illness . Jani Schofield has been diagnosed with schizophrenia by age 7, and had symptoms from the time she was an infant. She’s on anti-psychotic meds and her parents are forced to live in separate apartments, across a parking lot from each other, to keep her and her younger brother separated! Jani started to violently hit at age 5 and had delusions that were telling her to hurt her little brother. Can you imagine living in a separate home from your husband or wife, not because your marriage is failing, but because you have to keep your children apart? Not sure if that’s the solution I’d come up with, but then again, I’m not in their shoes... But even worse, schizophrenia is hard enough for an adult to deal with and make sense of the world through hallucinations and delusions – can you imagine having to deal with it at 7?!? Jani sees a rat named Wednesday, a cat, 400, another character, 24 hours, and a ton of others; they all live in a world Jani calls Calalini. She told Oprah that she lives somewhere between "our world" and "her world."