So, how do people view you as?

Like how people often describe you? I'm not schizoid. I'm schizotypal and I don't think I've ever met a schizoid before. I can't help but to picture schizoids as these bland loners who just give off one worded answers and go back into their cerebral cortex as their home because imagination is the key to your hearts. Is my point of view true or am I reading the diagnostics wrong. And I heard that you guys don't have humor but it seems like quite a bit of you seem to from what I've read from you guys. My brain is lost in the dunes. Sorry if I come across as rude but I don't think you guys care any ways...

Weird, odd, reserved. Unless there actually is something very interesting to talk about.

I do have a sense of humour, and since quite a few schizoids can fake emotions, it would be hard to spot one. Being able to laugh is basically the only main thing I can do. I would take that humorless "fact" with a grain of salt.

The few descriptions have been remarkably different. When people get closer to me they tend to behave intimidated und I think they focus on themselves. When I´m in fact bland it appears this state more often than not is functioning like a white board or a mirror reflecting issues of my counterpart.

Secret_Freak14 wrote:Sorry if I come across as rude but I don't think you guys care any ways...

Yes we care, but we don´t like to show.

I think your view is stereotypical but not rude.
Like I imagine not all people with schizotypal personality disorder try to decode messages from angels from the pattern of the wallpaper. At least I hope you´re not. Are you?

People get scared by my cynicism but then go to (perhaps ironically) perform the same supposedly hellish and unholy deeds my "ten commandments" say.

try to decode messages from angels from the pattern of the wallpaper.

Well, I am convinced I deciphered the future of the world from the way the Christmas lights reflected off the ceiling in the dark.

I thought everyone did these kinds of things though. :/

I'm starting to wonder if I have lived my whole life in psychosis now.

Thanks Dalloway! :/

The Germans are ruining things for me again......

Dalloway wrote:The few descriptions have been remarkably different. When people get closer to me they tend to behave intimidated und I think they focus on themselves. When I´m in fact bland it appears this state more often than not is functioning like a white board or a mirror reflecting issues of my counterpart.

Secret_Freak14 wrote:Sorry if I come across as rude but I don't think you guys care any ways...

Yes we care, but we don´t like to show.

I think your view is stereotypical but not rude.
Like I imagine not all people with schizotypal personality disorder try to decode messages from angels from the pattern of the wallpaper. At least I hope you´re not. Are you?

I used to have a habit of turning off the lights and look at atoms to see if pleidians were trying to give me messages in the formations... But a lot like the stereotypical schizoid, I have a problem with humor like you could show me a video of two animals doing the shag tag, everyone in the room will be laughing and I'm just like However, if you tell a story about a child getting its hands cut off I'll be like and I just end up looking like a sadistic freak.

Schizoids come in all varities I think. It doesn't help that there seems to be a lot of variation on how people think it can manifest. Also it seems to me that there are two proposed main 'factions' of schizoid- those that are more close to schizophrenia with flattened emotions and those that are closer to avoidant pd. Really it can almost become impossible to tell the difference in certain cases.

I mean someone who genuinely doesn't feel emotions and someone who suppresses emotions to the point of not feeling them- they can start looking a hell of a lot alike. I tend to think people fall on this spectrum somewhere. From conversations I have had, it's like people can feel inklings of feelings but they can't place them always , sometimes have random emotions break in , etc. Sometimes they only have certain specific emotions and nothing else. Etc.

Some schizoids seem more hostile, others more benign, some even friendly . Really the root of it is -lack of interest in others and -flattened affect . People are going to deal with that in different ways. Some are going to go through life just doing what they think should be done and being generally kind to others , participating in life in a very quiet way. Others will be bewildered by those around them and perhaps even react aggressively to their confusion. Some won't even give a damn about any of it.

Of course you also have to remember this is the internet and it's probably easier to reveal that 'inner world' without face to face contact...but I haven't seen many who have no humor, at least not on this forum. What that says I don't know.

Some are going to be easy to spot- others not so much. schizoid is onna the rarer pds diagnosed so who knows? A chunk of them are probably just completely missed.

I think it depends on how long a person has known me and what our relationship is.

Probably the first term people use to describe me is intelligent. The second would probably be "a little weird".

I actually come off as probably a little loud and outgoing to people who don't know me well. A lot of that is my very excellent mask. I don't ever really hesitate to speak my mind among strangers and acquaintances, because I don't really care so much about putting on appearances. People who are of the less normal variety usually feel comfortable around me, because I am not judgemental in a normal way.

Authority figures find me stubborn as heck. I am, I think, very sensitive to manipulative tactics, very sensitive to pretension. I kind of like to basically play psychological games with people who like to play psychological games with people. It's kind of fun to watch them become unhinged. Anyone who is playing some sort of social game usually finds me to be pretty difficult -- aloof, maybe even condescending.

People closest to me would describe me for sure as a loner, and a bit socially awkward. I clam up around people who I'm supposed to have intimate relationships with. They make me more nervous and on guard than a room full of strangers.

JPKAS wrote:Schizoids come in all varities I think. It doesn't help that there seems to be a lot of variation on how people think it can manifest. Also it seems to me that there are two proposed main 'factions' of schizoid- those that are more close to schizophrenia with flattened emotions and those that are closer to avoidant pd. Really it can almost become impossible to tell the difference in certain cases.

I mean someone who genuinely doesn't feel emotions and someone who suppresses emotions to the point of not feeling them- they can start looking a hell of a lot alike. I tend to think people fall on this spectrum somewhere. From conversations I have had, it's like people can feel inklings of feelings but they can't place them always , sometimes have random emotions break in , etc. Sometimes they only have certain specific emotions and nothing else. Etc.

Some schizoids seem more hostile, others more benign, some even friendly . Really the root of it is -lack of interest in others and -flattened affect . People are going to deal with that in different ways. Some are going to go through life just doing what they think should be done and being generally kind to others , participating in life in a very quiet way. Others will be bewildered by those around them and perhaps even react aggressively to their confusion. Some won't even give a damn about any of it.

Of course you also have to remember this is the internet and it's probably easier to reveal that 'inner world' without face to face contact...but I haven't seen many who have no humor, at least not on this forum. What that says I don't know.

Some are going to be easy to spot- others not so much. schizoid is onna the rarer pds diagnosed so who knows? A chunk of them are probably just completely missed.

I guess my way of feeling/expression emotions are more on the lines of schizotypal and Asperger's. Schizotypal where my emotional responses aren't as strong as what they are supposed to be and Asperger's where I only smile when I'm truly happy. This is neither Asperger's, schizoid or schizotypal but I've noticed in the past couple of months where I feel like I can only experience negative emotions. You fire positive energy projectiles at me of compliments and it might actually hurt.

Those who have known me for a few years tend to tell others that I'm socially awkward, intellegent, funny in a bizarre sort of way, strange, introverted, and kind.
Those who don't know me well describe me as wrong in a way they can't place, creepy, too quiet, strange, intellegent, and scary.
I can understand all those descriptions with the exception of intellegent.
It is an interesting note that many times I've faced down people far stronger than me who wished to do me harm [hazard of my job]. As best I can figure it's because my voice can not express emotion so I sound calm even when scared.