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[quote="Halligeninseln"][quote="psych"]i seem to be some sort of aspie/avoidant/schizoid hydrid. [/quote] Same here, except I've outgrown the avoidant bit (or it morphed into schizoid, I'm not sure). One of the problems with deciding whether one is schizoid or not is the fact that, unlike AS, there is so little personal information about it and nobody on YouTube who sits there and says they are schizoid and how they experience life, so one can't compare. There is just so much more information on AS, but a lot of the AS people here and on YouTube describe things which I always thought were pretty schizoid phenomena. Here in Germany a lot of the people who get tested for AS are given a schizoid diagnosis instead 8O .[/quote]
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<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%" class="forumline"> <tr> <th class="thCornerL" width="22%" height="26">Author</th> <th class="thCornerR">Message</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Halligeninseln</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 6:48 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>edgewaters wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Yeah I guess it could be something different. But just add mistrust to an aspie, so that he is evasive with answers, and put him in a clinical/diagnostic environment and I could see exactly this.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />To me sometimes it seems different, sometimes similar, depending on how I read the criteria and what kind of thing I associate with them. Just about the only informative thing I've come across on YouTube about schizoid personality disorder is: Dr Rhoda Hahn Schizoid Personality Disorder, where a psychiatrist explains what it is. The way she explains it it seems to me to have a completely different "feel" to it to ASD behaviours, even if superficially some of the behaviours may be identical from the outside. Speaking personally I can't really identify with the feel of it, as she describes it, in the way I can intuitively relate to autistic behaviours as something familiar. <br /> <br />Edit: Today I was on an aspie forum in my country and saw that someone who I have seen posting on the schizoid forum for ages has now been diagnosed as AS and has turned up on the AS forum. So it seems to happen in both directions, that people think they have AS and are schizoid or people think they are schizoid and have AS. Or maybe they are really just somewhere in the middle.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>edgewaters</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 5:57 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Yeah I guess it could be something different. But just add mistrust to an aspie, so that he is evasive with answers, and put him in a clinical/diagnostic environment and I could see exactly this.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Halligeninseln</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 5:10 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>edgewaters wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>btbnnyr wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">I have classic autism, and I don't have schizoid personality, but when I was little, I appeared to fit the criteria for schizoid personality disorder in adolescents and adults. Just ignore the one about sex.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Keep in mind that the sex thing is carefully stated - they are not interested in having sex with another person. Those last three words are important. Originally they thought SPDs were not interested in sex at all, because that's what they tended to claim in a clinical setting. But I guess they caught some of them masturbating or something. My guess is, these people were anxious answering questions about it, and when asked why they weren't engaging in sexual activity, or why so infrequently even when a partner was available, they said they weren't interested rather than saying they had difficulty and found it awkward. Less embarrassing questions if you just say not interested.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />I notice also from the DSM symptom list quoted above that they have changed "takes pleasure in few if any activities" to "takes pleasure in few if any activities WITH OTHER PEOPLE" (my capitals) which is something totally different. The first one makes it sound as though schizoids are really depressed (?) and apathetic and disinterested in everything, the second just that they prefer doing things alone, so they could be really mega-interested in something and enthusiastic about it, which a lot of aspies are. Someone (very NT) once said to me that sex was her favourite activity and I remember thinking that that was a bit sad because I was sure I got a lot more out of reading texts in Russian than she got out of sex because you could read Russian for 10 hours at a stretch and get really high whereas even really good sex wasn't as good as that. However, the wikipedia article on schizoid personality says that that personality is marked by apathy, so apathy seems to be an important factor. The article also talks about mistrust, which I can't identify with either because I don't mistrust people, I just find interacting with them exhausting and am drawn away from them anyway to be in either (a) a hyperfocussed state by myself in privacy or (b) a kind of dreamy being in my own world kind of state when I'm out in public.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>edgewaters</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 5:11 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>btbnnyr wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">I have classic autism, and I don't have schizoid personality, but when I was little, I appeared to fit the criteria for schizoid personality disorder in adolescents and adults. Just ignore the one about sex.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Keep in mind that the sex thing is carefully stated - they are not interested in having sex with another person. Those last three words are important. Originally they thought SPDs were not interested in sex at all, because that's what they tended to claim in a clinical setting. But I guess they caught some of them masturbating or something. My guess is, these people were anxious answering questions about it, and when asked why they weren't engaging in sexual activity, or why so infrequently even when a partner was available, they said they weren't interested rather than saying they had difficulty and found it awkward. Less embarrassing questions if you just say not interested.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>btbnnyr</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 4:56 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">On paper, the criteria for schizoid personality disorder can also describe how a socially aloof autistic child appears to others. <br /> <br />I have classic autism, and I don't have schizoid personality, but when I was little, I appeared to fit the criteria for schizoid personality disorder in adolescents and adults. Just ignore the one about sex. <br /> <br />I did not appear to show interest in people (and indeed I was not interested), and I always did solitary activities, and I showed few emotions eggsept for anger during meltdowns, and I appeared to be indifferent to praise and criticism because I had no idear what those were and how those affected me in any way. In my case, all these "schizoid" traits were ackshuly autistic traits that I was born with, because their causes lay in lack of communication/socialization instincts and lack of communication/socialization development. I was at my most schizoid aka autistic in childhood, and I appeared less and less and less schizoid as I learned moar and moar and moar communication/socialization skills. A big shift happened when I was eight, and I learned to speak. I changed from schizoid aka autistic child who showed no interest in people and did not communicate to odd child who was passive and socially oblivious but did communicate with others. As an adult, I still don't care about socialization, and I am still not interested in having a regular social circle or attending social functions or wanting to fit in anywhere or having moar than a few relationships with people. The thing with "I want to socialize and fit in but I don't know how and can't do it" doesn't apply to me. <br /> <br />If you were always schizoid from your earliest days, then I would say that you were a schizoid aka autistic child, and you probably have autism, not schizoid personality. Combine lack of social instinct/interest with your RRBs, and you get an autistic child, then adult, IMO. <br /> <br /></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>DSM wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">A. A pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of expression of emotions in interpersonal settings, beginning by early adulthood (age eighteen or older) and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by four (or more) of the following: <br /> <br /> Neither desires nor enjoys relationships or human interaction, including being part of a family <br /> Almost always chooses solitary activities <br /> Has little, if any, interest in having sexual experiences with another person <br /> Takes pleasure in few, if any, activities with other people <br /> Lacks close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives <br /> Appears indifferent to the praise or criticism of others <br /> Shows emotional coldness, detachment, or flattened affect <br /> <br />B. Does not occur exclusively during the course of schizophrenia, a mood disorder with psychotic features, another psychotic disorder, or a pervasive developmental disorder and is not due to the direct physiological effects of a general medical condition. </td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"></span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>edgewaters</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 10:24 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Schizoid traits and ASD</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Halligeninseln wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">The only problem with the theory is that nowadays a lot of people who go for testing for ASD get diagnosed with schizoid personality instead, which means the specialists still distinguish the two. </td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />I wouldn't read too much into that, really. I bet it depends on the specialist and their personal views, which seem to play a huge role in these things. It would be interesting to see if some favour certain diagnoses. <br /> <br />Of course I could be wrong.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Halligeninseln</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 5:44 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Schizoid traits and ASD</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>edgewaters wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Halligeninseln wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">So I seem to meet the criteria for schizoid personality disorder and to have met these criteria for decades. Whenever I read discussions on forums of the relation of ASD to schizoid personality disorder they always say "Oh, that's easy. With schizoid personality disorder you don't stim or have obsessive special interests and aspies are often sociable whereas schizoids aren't". The problem is that that doesn't help at all because I stim (classic autism stims), have had a ridiculously obsessive narrow interest for 35 years which has consumed my whole life and am not sociable, which makes the distinction I have just quoted irrelevant because I would belong in both camps. When I look at the DSM it is really easy to meet the criteria for schizoid personality disorder - you just need to meet three of the seven or so criteria.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />My take on SPD is that it comes from before there was any knowledge or recognition of AS. It's a bit of a placeholder, too. I think what it actually is, is just a demographic of AS individuals who did not present for treatment and couldn't be classified when they did. It's been retained simply because to get rid of it one would need to demonstrate that the individuals it describes have AS and since they don't present for treatment, and tend to be evasive when they do, this is extremely difficult. <br /> <br />If you read the descriptions on it, it sounds to me very much like what you'd expect them to say about a group of people with AS who are reluctant to get help or who have difficulty with the process, and therefore can't be identified.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Maybe. I would like to think so, because it would simplify the task of identifying which group of disordered individuals one belongs to <img src="modules/Forums/images/smiles/icon_cool.gif" alt="Cool" border="0" /> . The only problem with the theory is that nowadays a lot of people who go for testing for ASD get diagnosed with schizoid personality instead, which means the specialists still distinguish the two. I think if someone is just introverted to an extreme, unhealthy extent they would probably be classed as schizoid but not as autistic unless they had other evidence of neurological difference. What puzzles me about me though is that I am very socially inactive (schizoid trait), spending most of my time on one narrow interest of a repetitive nature (autistic trait) and have classic LFA autism stims (autistic trait). So I seem to be a real hybrid. Maybe there is a form of AS which manifests mainly as schizoid withdrawal. I think you're probably right that in the past some of the people who are nowadays diagnosed as AS would have been diagnosed as schizoid.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>AnotherKind</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 4:46 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Halligeninseln wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"> <br />I'm not sure those are autistic-style meltdowns. As far as I know (I'm no expert, though) autistic meltdowns are due to things like routines being changed or too much sensory input (noise etc) or too many people being around and stressing the person out or unpleasant physical sensations etc. As far as I know schizoids are supposed to have difficulty expressing anger so really terrible anger outbursts would probably not be a sign of a schizoid personality. The situations you describe are more like uncontrolled emotional reactions. If they are linked to specific people (ie parents, for example, or other family members) that would suggest more of an emotional origin. But I'm no psychologist. I know what you mean about identifying with all these mental issues and personality disorders. Maybe in the end I'll get tired of all this self-diagnosis stuff and just get on with my life <img src="modules/Forums/images/smiles/icon_cool.gif" alt="Cool" border="0" /> .</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Probably i'm a little traumatized because i've been bullied so many times in school. I go thuesday to a terapist to see what he has to say about me (whether i'm crazy or not). I were already to 6 psychologists and they all told me i'm normal - except one who said that i'm highly sensitive - but my mother still thinks i'm crazy (just because i don't like people around me and i have these anger outbursts) <br />And yeah, i see no reason to worry about - if you feel good in your body and you sleep well, probably you are just a loner <img src="modules/Forums/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif" alt="Smile" border="0" /> <br /> <br />Thanks for answering.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>edgewaters</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 3:45 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Schizoid traits and ASD</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Halligeninseln wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">So I seem to meet the criteria for schizoid personality disorder and to have met these criteria for decades. Whenever I read discussions on forums of the relation of ASD to schizoid personality disorder they always say "Oh, that's easy. With schizoid personality disorder you don't stim or have obsessive special interests and aspies are often sociable whereas schizoids aren't". The problem is that that doesn't help at all because I stim (classic autism stims), have had a ridiculously obsessive narrow interest for 35 years which has consumed my whole life and am not sociable, which makes the distinction I have just quoted irrelevant because I would belong in both camps. When I look at the DSM it is really easy to meet the criteria for schizoid personality disorder - you just need to meet three of the seven or so criteria.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />My take on SPD is that it comes from before there was any knowledge or recognition of AS. It's a bit of a placeholder, too. I think what it actually is, is just a demographic of AS individuals who did not present for treatment and couldn't be classified when they did. It's been retained simply because to get rid of it one would need to demonstrate that the individuals it describes have AS and since they don't present for treatment, and tend to be evasive when they do, this is extremely difficult. <br /> <br />If you read the descriptions on it, it sounds to me very much like what you'd expect them to say about a group of people with AS who are reluctant to get help or who have difficulty with the process, and therefore can't be identified.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Halligeninseln</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 3:00 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>AnotherKind wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Halligeninseln wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"> <br />Which country is your country? <br /></td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Romania. <br /> <br /></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Halligeninseln wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"> <br />As regards your question about anger outbursts I don't know about schizoids. I imagine they are fairly restrained because in the criteria I think it says they have problems expressing emotion. For me personally it goes as follows: I am often really stressed out inwardly because things don't go my way (this happens on a daily basis) but I suppress my frustration and stress (because I had a father who let his anger out on us and I don't want to be like him because I found it terrible and also a disgrace that he couldn't control himself). However, once in a while (once a year) something will happen which takes me over the edge and I flip out verbally with total strangers in a reckless way which leaves everyone wondering if they are dealing with a child or an adult. But I don't know if I'm a schizoid so don't take me as an example.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />I'm asking because sometimes i have really terrible anger outbursts, i'm starting yelling, crying, swearing - mostly when people try to change me, make fun of me or when they are criticizing me. And i started to be really worried because it's very hard for me to control these meltdowns and my mother want to put me on medications (also, i have no friends and i don't like people). My father was also diagnosed with schizophrenia when he was young but now his psychiatrist told he might have been misdiagnosed and have autism instead. Really, i don't know what to believe, when i'm reading about all these mental issues and personality disorders, i can easily identify almost in all of them. :/</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />I'm not sure those are autistic-style meltdowns. As far as I know (I'm no expert, though) autistic meltdowns are due to things like routines being changed or too much sensory input (noise etc) or too many people being around and stressing the person out or unpleasant physical sensations etc. As far as I know schizoids are supposed to have difficulty expressing anger so really terrible anger outbursts would probably not be a sign of a schizoid personality. The situations you describe are more like uncontrolled emotional reactions. If they are linked to specific people (ie parents, for example, or other family members) that would suggest more of an emotional origin. But I'm no psychologist. I know what you mean about identifying with all these mental issues and personality disorders. Maybe in the end I'll get tired of all this self-diagnosis stuff and just get on with my life <img src="modules/Forums/images/smiles/icon_cool.gif" alt="Cool" border="0" /> .</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>AnotherKind</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 4:35 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Halligeninseln wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"> <br />Which country is your country? <br /></td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Romania. <br /> <br /></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Halligeninseln wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"> <br />As regards your question about anger outbursts I don't know about schizoids. I imagine they are fairly restrained because in the criteria I think it says they have problems expressing emotion. For me personally it goes as follows: I am often really stressed out inwardly because things don't go my way (this happens on a daily basis) but I suppress my frustration and stress (because I had a father who let his anger out on us and I don't want to be like him because I found it terrible and also a disgrace that he couldn't control himself). However, once in a while (once a year) something will happen which takes me over the edge and I flip out verbally with total strangers in a reckless way which leaves everyone wondering if they are dealing with a child or an adult. But I don't know if I'm a schizoid so don't take me as an example.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />I'm asking because sometimes i have really terrible anger outbursts, i'm starting yelling, crying, swearing - mostly when people try to change me, make fun of me or when they are criticizing me. And i started to be really worried because it's very hard for me to control these meltdowns and my mother want to put me on medications (also, i have no friends and i don't like people). My father was also diagnosed with schizophrenia when he was young but now his psychiatrist told he might have been misdiagnosed and have autism instead. Really, i don't know what to believe, when i'm reading about all these mental issues and personality disorders, i can easily identify almost in all of them. :/</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Mdyar</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 12:11 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Schizoid traits and ASD</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Halligeninseln wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">This is one of my pet subjects so I'm posting about it again in the hope that someone out there may be concerned about the same issue or be able to relate to it. I have several unofficial "diagnoses" of ASD and usually operate on the assumption that they are correct. So far so good. However I am also extremely introverted and tend to isolate myself whenever possible. Usually I only have one friend (at present and for the last ten years just a girlfriend) and that one friend I don't need to see more than one day a week. So my social circle is tiny in the extreme. I prefer being by myself because it is much less demanding than having social contacts and I can do what I want if I am by myself (ie focus on my SI). If I have absolutely nobody I feel bad but one person is enough for me as social circle. The problem is that I have read that that is characteristically schizoid. It is also characteristically schizoid to find social interactions tiring and to some extent unrewarding (which I do) as well as to take pleasure in few activities (I like to just sit at home with my special interest). So I seem to meet the criteria for schizoid personality disorder and to have met these criteria for decades. Whenever I read discussions on forums of the relation of ASD to schizoid personality disorder they always say "Oh, that's easy. With schizoid personality disorder you don't stim or have obsessive special interests and aspies are often sociable whereas schizoids aren't". The problem is that that doesn't help at all because I stim (classic autism stims), have had a ridiculously obsessive narrow interest for 35 years which has consumed my whole life and am not sociable, which makes the distinction I have just quoted irrelevant because I would belong in both camps. When I look at the DSM it is really easy to meet the criteria for schizoid personality disorder - you just need to meet three of the seven or so criteria. So at the moment I am thinking of myself as having some features of ASD with some kind of built-in schizoidness as a manifestation of the ASD, because apart from social withdrawal I don't have any of the other characteristics of schizoid personality disorder, such as flattened effect and a lack of interest in having a romantic partner, for example. I don't know if any of you out there are grappling with the same sort of dilemma. I have the address of a psychologist who I hope may be able to do a differential diagnosis but I'm not sure they'll be able to do any better than me. Any thoughts or stories?</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br /> <br />I've learned here at WP that these manifestations do overlap: for example not all with an ASD have <span style="text-decoration: underline">all</span> of the symptoms out of the DSM criteria, nor the 'sensory problems'-- it's mix of many to few in this sundry bag. It is not a true one universal expression, and one can have undiagnosable "traits" of many to few. <br /> <br />I myself do have diagnosable ADHD but with undiagnosable AS. I do fit the "narrow interest" category easily, and I do stim, myself -- rocking, pacing, etc. -- all relatively mild. <br /> <br />The infamous theory of mind impairment I fit somewhat,. but outgrew that. And early on in my life had a relatively <span style="font-style: italic"> mild </span>"central coherence" problem that 'Ive worked very hard on and made good progress with it. <br /> <br />From reading your life's account I do see schizoid via the intimacy problems. I dont see the social fatigue as fitting it exclusively because this is normal for general introverts. And you seemed to fit the narrow interests. I've done considerable research into schizoid and ruled<span style="font-style: italic"> that out </span>due to normal intimacy. In my family I have diagnosed schizophrenic relatives-- this made my schizoid suspicions relevant but it doesn't fit in any way. <br /> <br />I see no quandary with quasi expressions.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Halligeninseln</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 5:48 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>AnotherKind wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Halligeninseln wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Here in Germany a lot of the people who get tested for AS are given a schizoid diagnosis instead <img src="modules/Forums/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif" alt="Shocked" border="0" /> .</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />This happens in my country too.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Which country is your country? <br /> <br />As regards your question about anger outbursts I don't know about schizoids. I imagine they are fairly restrained because in the criteria I think it says they have problems expressing emotion. For me personally it goes as follows: I am often really stressed out inwardly because things don't go my way (this happens on a daily basis) but I suppress my frustration and stress (because I had a father who let his anger out on us and I don't want to be like him because I found it terrible and also a disgrace that he couldn't control himself). However, once in a while (once a year) something will happen which takes me over the edge and I flip out verbally with total strangers in a reckless way which leaves everyone wondering if they are dealing with a child or an adult. But I don't know if I'm a schizoid so don't take me as an example.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>AnotherKind</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 4:23 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Halligeninseln wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Here in Germany a lot of the people who get tested for AS are given a schizoid diagnosis instead <img src="modules/Forums/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif" alt="Shocked" border="0" /> .</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />This happens in my country too.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>AnotherKind</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 4:20 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Schizoids have anger outbursts???? Please answer <img src="modules/Forums/images/smiles/icon_surprised.gif" alt="Surprised" border="0" /></span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> </table>
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