features of someone with a schizoid personality disorder

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If many of you are wondering why i am putting all this here ithink its beacuse i feel that alot of people here on the spectrum are confused either by some peoples comments of themselves or feel they've come to the wrong place. not so. This place is for everyone who's anyone on or off the spectrum.
So reflect upon some of these symptoms of clinical analysis and here maybe you can review your own diagnosis or pre assumptions of whoever is debating whether you do show up as having anything other than what is being said, of course off of wp.

These are just extracts not guidelines - taken off of wikepedia

Clinical Features of Schizoid Personality Disorder[27]


6 Areas-
(which are broken down into two sub-types)

(self features)- overt and covert types


1) Self-concept

compliant
stoic
noncompetitive
self-sufficient
lacking assertiveness
feeling inferior and an outsider in life

cynical
inauthentic
depersonalized
alternately feeling empty, robot-like, and full of omnipotent, vengeful fantasies
hidden grandiosity


2)
Interpersonal relations

withdrawn
aloof
have few close friends
impervious to others' emotions
afraid of intimacy

exquisitely sensitive
deeply curious about others
hungry for love
envious of others' spontaneity
intensely needy of involvement with others
capable of excitement with carefully selected intimates


3)
Social adaptation

prefer solitary occupational and recreational activities
marginal or eclectically sociable in groups
vulnerable to esoteric movements owing to a strong need to belong
tend to be lazy and indolent

lack clarity of goals
weak ethnic affiliation
usually capable of steady work
quite creative and may make unique and original contributions
capable of passionate endurance in certain spheres of interest


4)
Love and sexuality

asexual, sometimes celibate
free of romantic interests
averse to sexual gossip and innuendo

secret voyeuristic interests
vulnerable to erotomania
tendency towards compulsive perversions


5)
Ethics, standards, and ideals

idiosyncratic moral and political beliefs
tendency towards spiritual, mystical and para-psychological interests

moral unevenness
occasionally strikingly amoral and vulnerable to odd crimes, at other times altruistically self-sacrificing


6)
Cognitive style

absent-minded
engrossed in fantasy
vague and stilted speech
alternations between eloquence and inarticulateness

autistic thinking
fluctuations between sharp contact with external reality and hyperreflectiveness about the self
autocentric use of language

Thanks for this info. - I've been confused by some other people despite a knowingness inside myself, just like you said, and need to read more about all this. I'm just starting to see and attempt to figure out how my traits might interact: but only in retrospect, as I have difficulty (sometimes often ) knowing what emotion I'm experiencing in the present.

Only cynism in my case. Other is exactly opposite of me.

I know I'm not schizoid at all.
Some autistics are, but not even that many.

:roll:
well, I know it sounds a bit long-winded as it often is on wikepedia but ive tried just breaking it down into smaller chunks was just to get a different point of view set against some sites.
also, to illustrate my point on this I was reading that schizoid or schizotypical are from the same origins but on this spectrum as on all spectrums there is an underlying question of empathy and apathy involved . I think that just being blunt all the time comes from the source from which it was first found by the individual unlike some sociopathic disorders. there seems to be an organic purpose or stimulates in which it hibernates until that person grows up to believe their purpose or goals in life may be in narrow-minded suited context to themselves or others beliefs and frustration beyond belief in what they can achieve. ive often felt like this many a time, but hindered at the possibility that which could be cross- genetically involved via the mother and her unborn. this is a possibility but does not underline all the root causes.
The same thing applies to a dementia spectrum. the odds of someone on the receiving end of someone or a loved one may seem frightening at first, but their are many types of it and one should not be misled to believe that they are in fact doomed to care for them when this attack on themselves struggles to find a source which could inhibt them throughout their lifestyle choices and mundane status by that which they quote as real in life. im not finding answers here or a stylus suited to some up some other persons reference or syllabus into finding a gentic answer to their list of scheduled programmes on the day-to-day events of their life but facts are limited towards a better understanding of your life choices, your partner and yourself included in the mess of self-analysis or desire to distract yourself permanently form the echoes of chore based material that don't really serve any purpose in life but to amaze and ridicule you from within and if someones actions on the wisdom or outcome of their choices come at a loss or peril to somebody, they will assume themselves blind to the reasons which resolved there and henceforth to subjectory proposal and committee if there was such a thing,
Of course the only only law courts that could be served like this is in the case of the Jacksons on re-opening the case of their dearly departed brother are those depicted by celebrities who claim to have earlogged onto the sidelines of his recent handling by the doctor who lived by him and of course renewed his prescription but of course, no one really thought that euphanasia was an option to someone of frail means such as m.j .
so my point of this type of vocal topic via example, is that someone had a clue to his state of health but others just undermined the complex so that he would perform on stage and they could then inherit some of his good fortune. if anyone does remember that day of his funeral, as I do , there was this sad little coffin perched at the top-front half of the room, with all his kinfolk at the front and bystanders at the side, and I found that the turnout was like bigger than lady di's funeral,. but this is just my perception. at the time of course, no one who was anyone would have posted such cruel taunts on such a frail and famous person and I do hope that when old Maggie is laid to rest they find her path to the afterlife just as poignant and deserving as he was laid to rest. God bless and r.i.p.