Posted by Kari on August 13, 2002, at 13:12:31
In reply to Re: schizotypal personality disorder » Kari, posted by Dinah on August 12, 2002, at 10:07:43
>The thing (other than neurological signs) that really seems to fit me is the inability to read social cues. I'm excellent at reading emotions, but lousy at conversational rhythm, jokes, all sorts of social things. I have to fake it a lot, which makes face to face socializing a strain, although I'm not a teensy bit shy or phobic about socializing. I just find it difficult.>
I am extremely lousy at conversations. I never know the right thing to say and it takes so much effort to fake it through and to pretend I have the same abilities, feelings and perceptions as do others.
>I think it makes him especially uncomfortable that I can read him better than he can read me, when it would be more useful in therapy for the reverse to be true.>
Yes, this is a problem. Do you find that, despite the fact that he lacks your skills, you are able to trust him enough to discuss most of what you would like to?
>I am actually quite flat in my expressions and people have a harder time reading me than they do most people.>
This complicates things further, since people who feel different as we do usually long to be understood but lack the communication skills and confidence to bring about this understanding.
>What other sort of things make you feel like you might have schizotypal personality disorder?>
Inappropriate and constricted affect, tendency to feel as though people can see through me (or perhaps that's just wishful thinking), great difficulty finding the proper way to describe things or to phrase sentences, faulty sense of identity and sensing that my inner feelings are an indication of what is going to happen to others, to name but a few :)
Best wishes,
Kari.
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