smirks wrote:There is a bit of a social culture that you lose out on by going for long periods of time in isolation and you will notice a little bit of a difficulty either keeping up with conversation or caring about the thrust, often, of conversation. When human beings get together often, they invent sort of a social culture, and when you do not participate, as many schizoids don't, you become quite divorced from that social culture often replacing it with your own asocial culture, inventions from your own head, which are shared with no one, but evolved to the point where introducing anyone to your culture of one is almost painful.
I don't know if that's along the lines of what you were asking for, but this is what I notice most, as opposed to a more emotional reaction.
I think that even if I do socialize, I feel divorced from the social culture. I feel like I am still in touch with my asocial culture, but at the same time, I feel afraid that people will impose their social culture on me by force. Also, I find that when I try to share my views, people tend to weirded out by them or have a hard time understanding them. While it doesn't affect how I feel about myself (except for confirming to me that I am different from other people), it still makes it feel painful to interact.
That said, being alone for a long period of time still does affect me. While I haven't ever gone a full 24 hours alone (it isn't really possible for me to that at this time), I have gone many days in a row being alone for a huge chunk of each day. The only effect, really, is that I become more creative, though as I have become more in touch with my differences, that effect has become less pronounced.