If you had a friend who told you how clever they were you'd certainly be slightly concerned, especially if you could see little evidence of either humour or veracity on their part, but perhaps you would write it off as a bit of eccentricity.
If the same individual kept telling you that he had the best words and how nobody had better words than him, then kept mixing things up when speaking and saying oranges when he meant origins etc. etc., you might have felt that he was sometimes easily confused, strange for such a clever fellow.
When instead of talking he would start making peculiar bing- bong sounds to illustrate a specific point, leaving those listening to him shaking their heads in bemusement, you might start losing a bit of confidence in your friend, but put it down to a bad, perhaps very bad, day.
When you friend shortly thereafter started insisting that black was white, day was night and that what really mattered - reality - was how he saw things, you might have felt that perhaps he was in need of professional help, prompting you to start a search on the internet.
If your friend then denounced you and your actions in doubting his mental stability, asserting that he was in fact a stable genius and that everyone was in agreement with him on that, you would have started seeing that the situation was a lot worse than you had originally imagined, that your friend faced a serious problem.
But the moment he announced to all the world on social media that something was subject to his opinion in his 'great and unmatched wisdom' (his words) the warm bells would start ringing in earnest and you would be looking not for a helpful psychiatrist but for the men in white coats to come and take your friend to a safer place, maybe even a space with padded walls.
Ding-dong America, ding-dong.
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