mmmmmmmmmmmmmm quessssttioning 10/29/24
recently ive been pondering over whether or not im a schizoid...
always felt apathetic to diagnoses but szpd is the only one i really relate to. i only learned about it a few months ago i remember scrolling on tumblr and reading a post a thought was relatable and looking at the tags ansd seeing "schizoid" and clicking on it and scrolling for like an hour and looking it up and seeing shit i actually related to. i'm neurodivergent i know that for sure but i've never been diagnosed with anything besides just depression anxiety whatever. online i've been called autistic more times than i know of, usually as a story reply on instagram when i posted dmmd rants or vents but i've never really felt that connected to it. its more of like "if i have it then ok, if i dont ok, i don't really care unless i get diagnosed or something." i'm the type of person who wouldn't think something is different/abnormal with myself unless someone shoved it in my face. this applies to mental things but also physical stuff #1 self gaslighter. i'll always be like"ehhh not enough to call myself that/do something about it." anyways looking and learning about szpd was the first time in idk how long where i genuinely felt a connection. and would you look at that szpd and autisti traits can overlap a lot of the time! the only thing i don't think or know if i've felt is the day dreaming stuff which seems to be one of the most crucial aspects which made me hold off a bit in a "its too good to be true way" "theres no way you actually fit the descriptions of a personality disorder" "blahblahblah" so i leave that alone for a while.
cant remember when but i see a screenshot of a tweet where its like "me: i wish i had a bf > me: *gets bf* wow this sucks" and then a quote tweet from the same person saying "hey remember this turns out im a schizoid lol" and i was like YES YES THATS EXACTLY IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I HATE ALL AFFECTION DIRECTED TOWARDS ME online and irl i hate it when people have crushes on me i hate when people touch me at all i hate it when people give me gifts for 2 reasons. 1 is i just feel bad like if its a birthday or christmas gifts i kinda feel bad for asking for it or someone getting me something because i feel like i wont return the favor properly because of a lack of interest in them, like i dont wnat any affection to be unbalanced because i'll feel bad about anything i'll get. and 2) if its like a not normal gift giving occasion and its just a random gift i hate that because it makes shit unbalanced even more!!!!! what am i supposed to do knw i wasnt thinking about getting you something it just wasnt on my mind i hate it when people go out of their way. ANYWAYS I HATE ALL OF THAT BUT WANT IT SOOOOOOOOOOO BAD i've previously written here about wanting an impossible scenario but always regretting it. intimacy will always be something ill want either just for stimulus reasons might be nice to kiss or yank that thang asunder idk.. or because i wnat someone to understand me and i play all these nitro+chiral games and everyone ends up happy with thier twink of choice and i start crying. regardless its all impossible i dont like physical affection, i dont like any displays of affection, i dont like giving people affection. i've always been bad at complementing, comforting, wanting to spend time with people, whatever. i would never want to make someone go through a relationship with me, i would never want them to be shut out again
ex: in 4th grade i asked my best friend at the time to get "friendship married" this worked out because we both liked each other a lot but after we did she wanted to hold hands and say/do all these affectionate stuff and i immediately realized i didnt like it and wanted to get "friendship marriage divorced" the next day. we were still friends it was just the marriage stuff but since that point every time she was affectionate at school or at paydates i always hated it or didn't know how to react. she ended up moving and switching schools a year later after 5th grade and are parents set up a messaging thing in the texting app for kids and we talked, but after a while i started not wanting i just didn't feel like talking anymore. it wasn't anything she did and i didn't dislike her, but i just stopped talking and ghosted her. the end of 5th grade was when i realized a lot of things as i kinda started transitioning/developing my current self like i stopped wanted to hang out with friends at their house or do playdates or attend birthday parties, i just prefered to stay at home, i didn't really like talking through text or doing things that i'd have to go out of my way for like anything that wasn't at school. overall i just didn't have an interest in doing any of those things. it might have just been growing up but i still dont like going out of my way most of the time with irl friends, i've done things with them outside of school and texted on instagram and discord, but overall i haven't that much.
anyways an ideal world for me would be some kind of relationship without any kind of commitment, perhaps someone just loving me for who i am and not expecting anything, or maybe just doing everything themselves. that wont work either aaaaaaaaaaughjgghggj one of my best online friends has done so much and has supported me through so much throughout the past year or two and i just feel so bad about it.
overall, i crave, yet, i am equally, if not more, appalled by romantic relationships. even if i didnt feel disgusted by any of this i still wouldnt want to be in a relationship because i feel disgusting because of middle school shit and cant even imagine hugging or being physically close with anyone because i'd just feel liek literal shit. BUT ANYWAYSYYS this litle tweet kinda ignited my desire to know if i had szpd or not and it kinda ended up like before where i thought about it a lot but still doubted myself because i always will. SKIP TO NOW i was on tumblr once more and saw a post on why towa from slow damage might be a schizoid and it was a very nice post. as i was reading, my heartbeat was irregular and as i was seeing how szpd connected to towa i was connecting it with myself at the same time. towards the end of the post it brings up the "master/slave" dynamic in szpd relationships and stopped to read an extended post about it and oh my god that is literally what i wanted THATS IT i wanted a relationship with no commitment what so ever from me if anything a relationship where someone used me as much as they liked without expecting much from me is what i wanted. because i'd feel terrible about not providing anything in a relationship i would just prefer if someone didnt want anything to do with me on an intimate level if that makes sense. that combined with my guilt for other things in life and masochistic tendencies would form an ideal relationship for me. one that requires no effort on my part.
yea so here i am now and whats changed? NOT MUCH every time i find out something about szpd the more i relate to it but i'll always doubt myself. i want to talk to people sometimes. most of the time i dont talk to unless spoken to (both online and irl) but i've been the president of my schools anime club for 3 year sand i talk to people in there but also if my friends arent there for a meeting i'll probably be quiet. and a bunch of other things that make me doubt myself too like the day dreaming stuff i mention before and some other details. i know everyone is different and personality disorders appear in people in different ways but yea. AND some of it could possibly be explained through masking but yea BUT ALSO i was reading what caused peoples' szpd earlier and neglect as a child is one of the reasons and AUAGAJAGH i have a single mom and no siblings so its just been me and her (since my grandma died) and when i was in middle school 6-7th grade she got a job that made it so she was bearly at home sometimes i'd only see her once in the morning getting ready for school and then this uber but for kids service would take me home and then i wouldn't see her until the following morning, repeat that for most of middle school. i was home alone most of the time and until lock down happened due to covid i rarely saw her and felt kinda disconnected with her, combined with some other stuff. because my mom was single and was working hard throughout my life i always felt bad when i was super young. for simple things like not cleaning my room or eating 1 more piece of bacon than her i felt super bad . i never knew how to react or handle whenever she was upset (not at me like when she was stressed or cried on rare occasions) so i'd just stand there. i never developed comforting skills or really how to respond to stuff like that so i just felt distanced. i kinda kept to myself idk if thats how you describe it but i dont think i'd complain much and kinda just constricted myself in multiple ways. when my grandma died when i was6, i didn;t really feel sad i didn'y really care. it wasnt because i disliked her or didn't fully comprehend death, it just kinda happened. i didnt care for much of my relatives besides my mom and 2 aunts. i still dont and as a get older i long for the day i dont have to interact with them again.
honestly no matter what it'll always be a constant back and forth between whether i have szpd or not and i don think i'll be seeing a psychiatrist anytime soon. i dont really know who to ask for things like this. maybe i'll just keep it open forever because i dread the possibility i dont actually have it at alll. that me not liking talking to people or affection or doing anything for other people just has no explanation. that i'm not as nice as people see me as, that im not just shy, i dont want to talk. that the people i talk to arent the exception or special, that they wont gain my affection by trying harder to win me over because i have nothing to give. i cant give anyone anything because i have no interest in it. if thats the case, i cant let anyone attempt to get close to me because i'll feel bad about shutting them down but know the more we talk i'll just wish i had never met them. if thats the case i'll just keep withing for the impossible scenario of a relationship with no effort. if thats the case am i really just mean or uncaring. i've always hated when people fail to understand me when i say i dont want to talk or they try to do things to make me feel better because im not sad, i dont need *you* specifically, this is just how i am. i've considered just stating that i dont want to talk on some places online but part of me stills likes interecting with people and would hate to get rid of any other chances
in conclusion i guess, this was less of me just wondering about diagnosises, but more of me just wanting something to relate to or blaim on or an explaination for everything. its rare i find something i relate to like this so i just want to know if theres hope ig or if i am just alone. with that being said WHAT THE FUCK DO I DO HELP ME HOW SHOULD I FIGURE THIS OUT times lik these really make me want to add a comment section widget on here so i can get help and discuss things with people