Quote from: Fencesitter on August 23, 2010, 10:15:44 PM
"Schizoid personality disorder" means you are an introvert, hardly make your emotional reactions visible to other people, are much into stuff you do alone and phantasy stuff in the broad sense, have rather few friends than many, you're not good at socializiing and you don't get along with kids. I mean, what's wrong with that?
it's not just being an introvert or "hardly" making your emotional reactions visible.
What you described does not seem enough to cause problems with "living in human society, which is what you need to call it a disorder.
I looked it up.
"People with SPD are seen as aloof, cold and indifferent, which causes some
social problems."
"Because of their lack of communication with other people, those who are diagnosed with SPD are not able to have a reflection of themselves and how well they get along with others."
"Those people who have SPD are happiest when they are in a relationship in which the partner places few emotional or intimate demands on them, as it is not people as such that they want to avoid, but both negative
and positive emotions, emotional intimacy, and self disclosure."
etc. etc.
We human beings are social animals.
We rely on others in society to function.
Without emotional attachment to other individuals of the same species, there's no "social" structure.
We are geared towards having emotional reactions, needs and attachments.
With Far less than normal of these, problems arise.
Lack of empathy, lack of being able to associate with others, etc.
Which sounds and awful lot like it would make functioning in society "harder" than it is for others.
Which is the base definition of a disorder.
Quote from: rejennyrated on August 24, 2010, 03:14:32 AM
My point is that if GID is a disorder then so is ALL desire for cosmetic surgery. That, to my mind is irrefutable. I wanted the appearance of my genitalia changed, someone else wants a different appearance to their nose. It is the same thing EXACTLY to me.
Just cause you didn't have dysphoria doesn't mean other people don't.
Just means that you didn't.
If this was all about cosmetics for me, then I wouldn't be after it.
I'm terrified of surgery. The thought of it is enough to make me feel physically ill.
But the thought of living any longer as a lie, as something I'm not, with all these things that are not me still attached to this body, is even worse.
I honestly do not think I would have made it past age 30 without these steps taken to correct my flesh to match my mind.
The dysphoria was starting to kill me.
That means, that the dysphoria was actively, negatively effecting my ability to live a functional life via psychological distress.
That means, that the dysphoria was, and probably still is, a disorder in my life.