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Anyone can hear that Frank has a strong need to be identified as the author. This is typical of schizos. Most of us take self-identification for granted. It is normal. It is reality. We do not realize that our self identification is merely an elaborately constructed illusion that helps us operate in the "real" world. We say things like the "real world" as though it is something concrete, but it is not. It only seems concrete because we have comrades who believe in the same reality and they help us sustain it. Schizos do not have this group validation so they are constantly attempting to establish it. Frank's dismissal by those who do not understand him is the reason he does this.
There is quite a bit of philosophy here that I don't agree with. This is normally fine, but you've presented it as truth, so I feel a need to counter. For instance, the real world has yet to be proven -- or even effectively described -- by anyone as something other than "concrete." Just because it's fascinating or philosophically fashionable to call it all an illusion doesn't mean it really is. That Frank’s (we assume) broken perceptions and self-knowledge has left him unable to identify the "real world," or his place in it, sort of implies that there is a real word to which he longs to be a part, doesn't it? And no, I for one do not find self-validation or confirmation of my place in the real world through group validations. I do not count on comrades to share my belief that, say, jumping off a cliff will kill me, in order for it to be "real."
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What Frank is saying is very simple. I think that Frank is saying it because he believes that it will help people to connect to his reality. He feels very disconnected. He is trying to connect. It is very difficult to be in an awareness that isn't the norm. Frank is so far gone from our reality that he seems insane. A person like yourself from 2014 would seem insane to a person from 1914. Imagine telling a person from 1914 that men would be marrying men legally or even that women would vote!
You may have that half right. Yes, he may be looking to get people to understand him -- indeed, he is obviously doing that. But, as Dave already said above, common sense perception of insanity hasn't changed much in the last century.