Is it AS or SPD - The difference between them.

i'd add the talkativeness level to the list. an aspie can passionately give you a whole lecture about their favorite subject for fifteen minutes straight

Is this a generalization? I ask as I have a friend who self diagnosed SPD last year but I'm not sure that is accurate. He can and will talk my ear off occasionally about something he is passionate about. For example, he'll tell me the entire story line from a movie, from introduction to credits. I cannot get a word in at all.

AS are talkative, though not all the time. SPD are mostly quiet? Generalizations, of course.

SilverBrat wrote:

i'd add the talkativeness level to the list. an aspie can passionately give you a whole lecture about their favorite subject for fifteen minutes straight

Is this a generalization? I ask as I have a friend who self diagnosed SPD last year but I'm not sure that is accurate. He can and will talk my ear off occasionally about something he is passionate about. For example, he'll tell me the entire story line from a movie, from introduction to credits. I cannot get a word in at all.

AS are talkative, though not all the time. SPD are mostly quiet? Generalizations, of course.

from what i've read both inside and outside of the forum, schizoids tend to not say very much and it's hard to get them to talk for long. your friend may really just have some kind of autism, or he may be the exception to the rule.

somewhere in this video they say stuff like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Paf1iTVDuRw

of course, it could be just me being a noob and i'm totally wrong about that, though. lol.

EtherealStarlight wrote:from what i've read both inside and outside of the forum, schizoids tend to not say very much and it's hard to get them to talk for long.

It's probably hard (or nearly impossible) to get them to talk for long, but I don't think it has anything to do with the talking, but rather just the obligation itself.

This is some very interesting stuff. I was suspecting that i had aspergers but this cleared it out.

Imo it's quite simple - being schizoid is fundamentally a dissociative condition, whereas having Asperger's, as far as I understand, does not involve any kind of dissociation.

It is weird, when looking into it, how people can confuse the 2...tthey are so very different. But I thought for a couple months that I may have aspergers or something myself. But, upon talking to my aspie partner, (who has put in an enormous amount of work so that he can respond accordingly to social cues), I simply do not have the social inabilities he had. It's funny though that they can present within an individual so similarly I suppose.