Schizotypal vs ASD

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"The schizotypal may misread a simple non-verbal communication cue, such as a frown, as someone being displeased with them, when in reality it may have nothing to do with them. Their perceptions are often distortions of what is really happening externally, but they tend to believe their perceptions more than what others might say or do."

I remember reading that ASD people tend to do the same thing. So is there any difference with regards to this misinterpretation between the two disorders?

Schizotypal will tend to disbelieve what others are telling them actually happened. So that a frown is directed towards the schizotypal instead of the actual reason a person was frowning. With aspergers we are uncertain of what the frown means and so we make a guess at the reason or guess what the frown means at all, however we are open to accepting a different explanation than what we thought we had perceived. Generally speaking of course.