"I'm Crazy" is a short story written by J. D. Salinger for the December 22, 1945[1] issue of Collier's magazine.[2] Despite the story's underlying melancholy, the magazine described it as "the heart-warming story of a kid whose only fault lay in understanding people so well that most of them were baffled by him and only a very few would believe in him".[3]
The story is told in first-person narrative mode by Holden Caulfield. Salinger later reworked the story to incorporate it into his classic novel The Catcher in the Rye.
"I'm Crazy" is an early version of Holden's departure from prep school that later shows up in The Catcher in the Rye.