A lot of schizoid traits are incredibly accurate when describing me, and the word basically sums up my entire life, but I’m missing some important traits and a lot of common experiences (I’m pretty empathetic, I don’t mind surface-level interaction, I have a strong moral center, and I have relatively little emotional blunting.) I also feel like it doesn’t really bother me enough to be a disorder. Is there such a thing as a non-disordered schizoid, and if so, does it still count as schizoid?
Well you might be just that lucky rare schizoid who managed to live a couple decades without damaging your psyche due to nasty world being nasty all around you. If that’s the case, congrats to you, I’m already your fan :)
Seriously, as a rather crippled by alienation schizoid, I always admired those who managed to somehow be resilient enough to survive without going into hardcore schizoid defenses where you toss your own emotions into trash, forsake humanity as utterly gross species and create your tiny little mental bunker far away from all this mess.
I tried to google something about schizoid and other not-quite-disorder mild accentuations, but most stuff I find is on russian. >.> Seems like it comes mostly from this russian dude. It’s clear he’s much more popular here in russia then he is in english speaking world. Here people seem to call the same thing as “separate traits of X PD”. But that hardly makes it any different, no matter how you call it. So yeah, schizoid accentuation/traits seems to be a thing. And a pretty awesome thing, in my opinion.
If you are past 25 or so already, then it’ll probably stay with your for the rest of your life. And that’s great ^^ Make sure to have a good use of your life for the rest of us who were less lucky ;P With schizoid personality but without disorder you are likely to be capable of awesome things that are beyond reach for most people. Like being good with systems and analytics — and without despise towards people stopping you from using it. You can start a business, for example, and very likely be much better at organizing it than most people with regular emotions. Or maybe you’re into other things like art or politics or science.
Either way, your motivation is probably not as low as it often is for disordered schizoids. You can find enough motivational fuel in yourself to be really good at something. Up to Musk level of good in something. It’s all up to you.
However, if you’re still young, like not yet 20 even, then there’s still a chance you might manifest schizoid PD later on. Can’t say for sure if you can control it or not, but you sure can try — no harm in that. Just learning more about what szpd is and what usually causes it (spoiler: bullying by peers, abuse by parents and alienation by society being the most common and likely factors), stay away from bad stuff and try to save that light you have.
Good luck either way. ^^
