Schizoid Personality Disorder vs AS

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What is the actually difference between the two conditions? I've been reading up on it a lot lately, but the internet as always has few to little legitimate answers on the subject. Just like Aspergers, everyone seems to have their own idea as to what the specific "symptoms" if I dare call them that are. Has anyone here ever actually been "diagnosed" with SPD and know what the true diagnostic criteria are for it? I'd like to know specifically before I bring up the concept of misdiagnosis again with the Voc Rehab people at my university so I don't look like a twat.

I have an actual professional diagnosis for ASD, but I question it still. Personally I rarely actually identify with anyone else on the forum in their behaviors, the only two I actually see myself in are oddballs, one has their own idea as to what AS is and the other said they're undiagnosed and not sure. I have/had two grandparents with Schizophrenia, if it was actual Schizophrenia. Who even knows these days with most mental conditions having such fluid diagnostic criteria and all the misdiagnosis's, which were much worse in the past. Psychology is such a messy quagmire

I don't believe in psychology's made up conditions. It's all to sell pills - it's 'the pharmaceutical industry' after all. All non-neurotypicals are said to have conditions. Furthermore, neurotypical changes with different cultures. Compare Japanese to American norms. You're better off attributing someone's behavior and choices to their personality than to some condition.

Feyokien - I've certainly questioned my diagnosis. Were I not so ignorant of Schizoid Personality Disorder at the time, I certainly would have wondered about the two. But what made me more accepting of my AS diagnosis was things like sensory issues and mental stimming and narrow, repetitive behaviours.

I asked myself: what practical difference does it make if I have AS. And I started reading about it and other peoples' experience of it, and from there found helpful ways of thinking about things and dealing with problems, indeed that my problems were valid. That, to me, validated the diagnosis. I could make use of thinking of myself that way.

I've just recently started looing at SPD. I find a lot of it rings true. My approach, again, is to see if there's anything there I can make use of.

In defense of psychologists, it's the psychiatrists who sell the pills. I've found the ability and acuity of psychologists varies, whereas psychiatrists I've met have had a narrow view of things.

Yeah I basically already believe that. I dunno why I wanted to go back in, must of been in a weird mood when I asked this question. Everything's a condition these days. The biggest mistake I ever made was getting a professional diagnosis. There's no real test for anything, just questionnaires. At least I've held my ground against people trying to get me to take pills.

It's easy to fall back into the 'everything different is a condition' mentality, since it's society's current narrative, but society's narrative always changes throughout the centuries. Good for you on the no pills OP. Never think of yourself as damaged ~ just as different from the boring masses. Take supplements (for health) not pills. ^-^

Yeah thats why I love history, historians always treat things according to social context, not like people who deal with contemporary matters where things are just authentic and "right".