It’s not clear why anyone would want to claim a self-diagnosis of that, since little about it is ‘egosyntonic’, as the psychiatrists say.
Since a friend mentioned I might be schizoid, I’ve been like ”...yeah? somewhat? maybe? seems mixed? aren’t I just avoidant? but I feel more worried about relating than about being rejected?”, though I’m not very motivated to learn a bunch about it. So IDK. But anyway, re/ egosyntonicity:
Compared to avoidant, schizoid seems vaguely similar, but less pathetic; less needy or cowardly.
Schizoid has some benefits of “disagreeability, but not as much of an asshole”. Thinking for yourself, not being taken in by common modes of being.
Schizoid is maybe kinda like “I have a really really high bar for who I want to relate to”, which is kinda high-status.
Since a friend mentioned I might be schizoid, I’ve been like ”...yeah? somewhat? maybe? seems mixed? aren’t I just avoidant? but I feel more worried about relating than about being rejected?”, though I’m not very motivated to learn a bunch about it. So IDK. But anyway, re/ egosyntonicity:
Compared to avoidant, schizoid seems vaguely similar, but less pathetic; less needy or cowardly.
Schizoid has some benefits of “disagreeability, but not as much of an asshole”. Thinking for yourself, not being taken in by common modes of being.
Schizoid is maybe kinda like “I have a really really high bar for who I want to relate to”, which is kinda high-status.