#schizospectrum

1. I feel nothing and have nothing to talk about

2. I hate you/think you're evil/think you're plotting again me

3. I think you hate me/think I'm evil/think I'm doing something bad

4. I think this isn't working and the things you tell me don't help me

5. Your analysis of what I'm going through is wrong

6. You're making me feel angry/sad/useless/stupid

7. I feel like you're secretly trying to communicate [x] to me because you said [y]

8. I've just been trying to guess what you want me to say and saying it

9. I'm suffering because of things I can only describe as otherworldly or spiritual or not of this world

The schizotypic and autistic furry both share a fantasy of escaping from the human form, but the schizotypic furry shows a desire for an escape from any physical existence at all. The schizotypic furry is non-representational because all representation is a burden to the schizotypic individual. All sensory reality seeks to deny the fragile self of the schizotypic, and so all sensory reality must be softened or denied. This nebulousness may extend to imagining the fursona without organs or underlying anatomy, perhaps substituting "candy gore"-meat or creating a shape-shifting creature that is purely malleable slime. The shizotypic may enjoy toons, chibis, or mascots precisely for their impossibility, the way that each part of their visual vocabulary is an iteration of an iteration, no longer echoing it's extent inspiration.

Me when I have a friend group: ugh this sucks they’re all out to get me

Aaaarghhh....the demons...the demons want me to KILL YOU!!!!! EAT KILL MURDER BLOOD FLESH GORE CONSUME

Psychosis irl:

BPD, NPD, DPD

ASPD, HPD, AVPD

OCPD, Schizospecs(link), OCD

just, on paper, things like "believing you're dead/the world is a simulation/you're being controlled" read too similar to "feeling like you're a ghost/that everything is fake/that you're a passenger" for me to make any meaningful distinction. if you've got any even anecdotal experience of the difference in how they "feel", that'd be a great help! if not, don't worry, hope you're having a good day!

Hello!! I am not an expert, but the difference is maybe best explained by differentiating the intent of the words. The words people use to describe dissociation are metaphorical. They are reaching for touchstones in language and culture to describe a feeling they can't otherwise describe. They "feel like" they are experiencing those things, but they know that they are not actually experiencing them. Whereas if you "believe" the exact same thing, the implication of your words is suddenly quite different.

A person experiencing psychosis does experience dissociation, derealization, etc, and may say things that and are identifiable as metaphors for those feelings by outsiders, but to them the experience is not a metaphor. Their sense of self, narrative, and reality are all impaired.

"For example, a patient may report that it feels like some of her thoughts do not belong to her, as if another generated them. The ‘as if’ qualification here suggests that the patient retains a reflective distance to her experience, i.e. her grasp of reality has not slipped and she is not delusional. However, a further concretization of the metaphor, away from its ordinary intersubjective meaning, could make the patient’s report closer to a delusion. It is consequently important to remember that metaphors are not just metaphors. They always convey certain lived aspects of pre-linguistic experience, and, not infrequently, patients use metaphors in somewhat more concrete ways than one might be inclined to expect, reflecting the lived anomalous experiences they are meant to articulate"

For more on the consistent experiences underlying psychosis (at least in schizophrenia) that only become visible to outsiders in psychotic episodes, this paper is good.