Wow. Thank you for this insight, sincerely. I’ll keep your words with me.

“we can move on to impacting the world around us.”

That’s actually the point of the “hyper focused inward narcissism” RE: high expectations of self/others.

Dumb ass.

I will start with I happily label myself as having schizoid. You take aim at the idea of pridefully having SPD as being a power stroke to ones ego for being different. In part with this you pose the argument of why would you want to consciously be someone who prefers being alone, well why not? There is no harm in being able to take comfort in one’s own skin and person. It naturally would figure that this is actually a very positive image of one’s person so long as they aren’t pushing their ego beyond a realistic image (e.g. being omnipotent). It is important that all people have social skills as interaction with the outside world is inedible. It has been noted that those with SPD have no issue in their social skills as they don’t lack empathy in the ability to understand others emotions. What is clear is that there is a lack in the ability to relate and share in the same experience as others from a personal standpoint.

You state that the sense of superiority that follows in those with SPD is a result of others not being able to fathom them. I have never seen the argument of ones own superiority come from others not liking them in relation to SPD. My opinion to the sense of superiority found in those truly with SPD follows from self sufficiency as far as the psyche. Because those with SPD are self reliant on providing their own stimulus from the inner world unlike others who derive theirs from social interactions. This use of defining characteristic of those with SPD is not something to be thought as intrinsically a thought of complete superiority over others in all senses like some Übermensch. This sense of being superior only covers the as for mentioned aspect of self -sufficiency. Your view would be to say a welder is unable to be called superior in mashing medal together with fire because a baker is better at making cakes. It’s not a totality view as much a scoped one.

From your text “This schizoid detachment from self is also apparent during sex. If say I have sex with you, I won’t truly feel I’m having sex with you unless in the act I also imagine myself having sex with you.” This does make me feel like you do understand some of the struggles of having SPD. But the fact you even weight the possibility that thinking of the very person you’re having sex with may be a form of cheating is laughable.

The concept of personality disorders being more of a spectrum, or so from my comprehension by posing schizotypy over the DSM makes me feel there is a lack of knowledge being displayed. To mash disorders together onto a spectrum such as the string schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, schizoid personality disorder and schizotypal personality disorder would be to suggest it is all stemming from the same roots. The only variation would be the degree and overall symptoms along this continuum. But the underlying features of all these disorders vary significantly despite sharing many overtly common features. To do this would be crass such as lumping anything with flu like symptoms as the same disease becuase they all share flu like symptoms. While all the potential diseases that could fall into this maxim clearly would be very different diseases the same way the before mentioned disorders are all very different.