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About 6 months ago one of the guys at work got suspended. Everyone figured it was sexual harassment because he's been accused before. Then a week later his BOSS got suspended. No one said why. The guy retired, but now the boss is back - but not as a supervisor. He's been demoted down to a regular working guy now - chemist. I saw him walking down the hall, but I have not seen him ...

"... if you are young. Let me advise you, then, to form the habit of taking some of your solitude with you into society, to learn to be to some extent alone even though you are in company; ... not to attach too precise a meaning to what others say; rather, not to expect much of them, either morally or intellectually, and to strengthen yourself in the feeling of indifference to their opinion..." -Schopenhauer

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I've always had trouble following the law and rules.I sincerely just don't care. Do other SPD people have the same trouble?

I've always found myself getting in trouble with the law or breaking rules not for money or street credibility but it made me feel alive when otherwise I would feel dead inside. I've always been involved in petty crime since I was a kid but since I always planned my crimes it was always ...

What do you feel about leaving the world one day as if you never existed
None to remember you, as if you never existed

Makes me feel like $#%^

So...do you everything to remain single men (for Males with Schizoid Personality Disorder)?

I know that I pretty much do anything and everything to remain single. Whether that entails my observance that a woman without makeup is not pretty (which rings true to me, for the most part) or whatever else it takes....I'm pretty much doing everything I can to remain single.

I was wondering if anyone had any tips for how to enforce strict boundaries between other people and me, especially if forced into a social situation i.e. my cousin's upcoming wedding.

For Thanksgiving, I tried briefly interacting and then going upstairs. My mom complained that I was antisocial. She said someone else was downstairs and didn't talk, but made her presence felt.

For my (other) cousin's play, I tried being there but being quiet. My ...

My own Mom believes it's Asperger's Syndrome instead of Schizoid Personality Disorder. Anyway, I've had to correct her.

While I realize these two could be confused (and I do have a few traits of Asperger's), I think it's important to point out that those on the severe end of the spectrum of Schizoid Personality Disorder REALLY have little desire to reach out/connect to others. I'd say this is the key difference here as you'll see ...

Hello, I was wondering what could therapy change, to what degree, and does it change only the way you view the world or can it actually change something about yourself?

mostly wondering if i could become hetrosexual, if i can actually care about things more?
and generally speaking what did your therapy change for you?

am not depressed am just not that interested or at least most thing in life bore me, but when they don't i get overboard like an addict coz there is nothing else, and it doesn't take long before i get burnout from it, this is my whole life bouncing from one interest into another spending a week looking for anything only to get bored from it within days.
am not suicidal it just the majority ...

Hi, i was diagnosed recently and decided to stop the act i've been doing, cutting off from social life and things i've been doing because thats what everybody seems to do,
I have no hobbies, i dont enjoy anything, im not depressed but i just have no reason to live, anybody in the same position relates? If yes then why keep living, the only motivation for me to live is to "not die"

I used ...