now I am really confused...

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I am debating with myself on whether I have Aspergers or Schizophrenia... I would rather have aspergers, but at the same time I do have delusions... I do not hear things, but I do worry about every awkward thing, figure, shadow, feeling, etc that I see out of the corner of my eye, I do not see things that are not there though...

The difference between this though, is that I have acted weird since I was really little, like, since I can remember. I did not get delusions though until a few years later though... but I did have them my whole life. I always feel like someone is behind me, or sneeking up on me, or spying on me, or will just appear out of nowhere. at night I need to have my windows shut so people don't look in on me, or are able to snipe me through the window.

I don't have hallucinations though, so I don't think I am schizophenia, also, I have been this way most of my life, and also fit every single criteria, side-symptom, and even vague similarity with aspergers. Even my little brother has paranoia and he was diagnosed with autism.

I am confused... do I have schizophrenia or paranoid aspergers?

i think paranoid aspergers...

worry alone is not dillusional....

could actually be a form of ocd maybe?

I can't diagnose you online, but you don't necessarily need hallucinations in order to have schizophrenia. You can be diagnosed with schizophrenia if you exhibit largely negative symptoms, or if the delusions themselves are judged "bizarre" enough.

However, regarding the thought processes that you've described - they could be caused by other things that are not on the schizophrenia spectrum. Anxiety would be one, and OCD would be another. Some of the thoughts that people get due to OCD can appear almost psychotic-like, but IMO it seems that with OCD, the people who have those thoughts tend to be aware that their thoughts are warped. It's the inability of them to stop thinking about said thoughts which further increases their distress. Whereas with psychosis, more often than not, you tend to not realise that your thought processes are warped because the psychosis becomes your reality.

I think it might be a good idea to lay off reading about mental issues. Sometimes, it's easy to think that you "fit" the criteria of <x> disorder. I think that if everyone went through the DSM, then it is highly likely that they will find a disorder that they think they'll have. In the words of my psychiatrist, the DSM is like "a shopping list of mental disorders".