#actuallystpd

Comparison of a Schizotypal Personality Style vs Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Here’s a casual reminder that I have two discords where I like to hang out with people!

There’s one for this blog, which is only open to people who are psychotic or schizospec (open to questioning, undiagnosed and self-diagnosed people). It’s a lil cosy server to get to know other people with similar experiences! The people there are predominantly queer, there’s a lot of systems of different origins, but at the end of the day it’s for and about schizotypical experiences.

I don’t post open links to this server, but please contact me off anon via dm at @galactic-glitch or send an ask off anon here (which won’t be published) and I’lll throw you a link! My other server is for queer, polyam, disabled, plural and mentally ill/neurodivergent peeps, that one’s open invite and can be found here.

Hope to see some of y’all!

you are nonbinary enough

you aren’t a harmful stereotype

oh christ i just saw this. i hope you see this, anon.

there are a lot of similar symptoms, in the same way that there are a lot of similar symptoms between asd and adhd. they can be similar with lots of overlap, but there are key differences.

i will admit right off the bat that i was never properly diagnosed with it. i did speak with a psychiatrist who suspected i might have both, but i stopped seeing him before we could get anywhere due to some paranoia, funny enough. but he did help explain to me some key differences. for example, asd doesnt usually come with paranoia, psychosis, magical thinking etc, while stpd doesnt really come with sensory processing problems (which even if it did ive experienced those basically from birth, long before personality disorders start), difficulty with reading body language or tone, taking things literally, pattern recognition etc. he really seemed to think i had both but again i fled before any actual official diagnosis could be made bc i suddenly became convinced he was going to lock me up or some shit lmao. fantastic.

basically i would suggest speaking with a doctor but seeing as that isn’t always an option due to circumstances beyond our control, you could make yourself a venn diagram and research as much as you can into the symptoms of both. then write symptoms you exhibit that are exclusive to one or the other in their separate circles, and ones that overlap in the middle. i think that might paint a pretty clear picture for at least a starting point in the journey of figuring this shit out.