how do you personally feel about being schizoid?

i am thinking in terms of yourself, compared to norms and what you think you would feel like if you were norm?

*EDIT you can change your vote btw

My personality is the only personality I've ever experienced, so it is normal to me. I'm really not sure how I'm supposed to 'feel something' about a word?

anrothar wrote:y personality is the only personality I've ever experienced, so it is normal to me.

do you have something more than schizoid?

anrothar wrote:I'm really not sure how I'm supposed to 'feel something' about a word?

i am guessing you just lack feelings.
but if you want to know then words mean stuff when you know how to read, and most people have feelings.

This is an interesting question. I'm a little bit hesitant to assign "good" or "bad" to the qualities I have that lead me to identify with SPD; they're part of who I am. Personality traits never really occurred to me as something that could have positive or negative connotations. That said, relative to the person I was before SPD set in, I do think I'm better off. Of course, that's not exactly an objective opinion - I am at peace with who I am now... because it's who I am. I wonder if a much younger me would look forward with anticipation or dread.

In trying to think about what I might consider and positives and negatives, it occurs to me that it really boils down to this: I do like the emotional insulation afforded me. A lack of investment in most things makes it much easier to remain objective. Unfortunately, the same lack of investment often makes accomplishments less gratifying and sometimes, life less enjoyable as a whole. I think, like most things, it's a mixed bag.

no-mans-land wrote:

anrothar wrote:y personality is the only personality I've ever experienced, so it is normal to me.

do you have something more than schizoid?

It's the only pd I test highly for.

no-mans-land wrote:

anrothar wrote:I'm really not sure how I'm supposed to 'feel something' about a word?

i am guessing you just lack feelings.
but if you want to know then words mean stuff when you know how to read, and most people have feelings.

I fully understand that words have meanings. You're asking people with relatively few 'feelings' to tell you how they feel about their feelings. Which is odd and slightly confusing.

no-mans-land wrote:i am thinking in terms of yourself, compared to norms and what you think you would feel like if you were norm?

*EDIT you can change your vote btw

I don't know how norms feel like. Overall I don't understand why norms, just because there are more of them, and are in the same specie? Why not ask if I wouldn't like to a dolphin, or a bear? I wouldn't mind being a bear, thanks for asking. I was thinking about living in some remote area, but lack of good protection from cold, and the need to make tools takes away the simplicity of it. Other animals aren't also as wimpy when it comes to they digesting system.

Such questions also lack sense to me because there are very different people who are diagnosed with schizoids, and there is no solid criteria for it, and even mentioning that they should be some to make the word useful means that you are elitist.

I wanted to select good or bad but it is to much of a mixed bag with some good and some bad. I also dont feel like thinking right now.

i really cant understand this whole spd and normal thing but i see it quite a lot in posts , why because you have or think you have a disorder does that not make you a normal person , as far as i see it im a normal person with problems just like every other person in the world , how do i feel about having spd i dont i just get on with it ,

michael76 wrote:i really cant understand this whole spd and normal thing but i see it quite a lot in posts , why because you have or think you have a disorder does that not make you a normal person , as far as i see it im a normal person with problems just like every other person in the world , how do i feel about having spd i dont i just get on with it ,

In this forum, the word normal refers to being approximately average in any psychological trait, such as intelligence, personality, or emotional adjustment. Averages lean toward the majority; the majority of people are not schizoid. Schizoids are not average; schizoids are not normal.

Sometimes we have a habit of applying undue positive or negative charge to neutral terms. We see food labeled "natural" and believe it is a universally positive characteristic. In reality, the word natural is neutral, and can be applied to substances both beneficial and detrimental to our health. Likewise we tend to desire to be normal, viewing abnormality as negative. Abnormal things can be both better than, equal to, and worse than normal. As a single word judgement it means very little.

I feel blessed.