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The author did not need to define schizoid because: 1. It is their blog, and they probably assume their audience is educated in what schizoid means or is capab

The author did not need to define schizoid because: 1. It is their blog, and they probably assume their audience is educated in what schizoid means or is capable of looking it up. 2. Schizoid does not colloquially refer to schizophrenia, and schizophrenia is not a pejorative for "crazy," these are both real and distinct (but related) disorders that do not require anyone talking about them to dichotomize them from what you might assume people misconstrue their false definitions as. Also, it's not an "extreme form of introversion" - it's much more than that, and putting it that way minimizes the serious nature of the disorder.

belkarx 4y ago
You're incorrect on point 2. In many communities, schizoid/schizo does refer in a derogatory/shorthand manner to schizophrenia and many more people are familiar with schizophrenia than schizoid disorder, so that is more likely to be the immediate assumption.
MichaelCollins 4y ago
> 2. Schizoid does not colloquially refer to schizophrenia It often does colloquially refer to schizophrenia, I've heard people use the word this way for as long as I can remember. General purpose English dictionaries document this colloquial meaning, I checked several to be sure: "(archaic) schizophrenic" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schizoid https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schizoid "characterized by, resulting from, tending toward, or suggestive of schizophrenia" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schizoid https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schizoid "suffering from or behaving as if suffering from schizophrenia" https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/schizoid https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/schizoid "Informal. of or relating to schizophrenia or to multiple personality." https://www.dictionary.com/browse/schizoid https://www.dictionary.com/browse/schizoid "Someone who is schizoid has schizophrenia" https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/schizoid https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/schizoi...

belkarx 4y ago

You're incorrect on point 2. In many communities, schizoid/schizo does refer in a derogatory/shorthand manner to schizophrenia and many more people are familiar with schizophrenia than schizoid disorder, so that is more likely to be the immediate assumption.

MichaelCollins 4y ago

> 2. Schizoid does not colloquially refer to schizophrenia It often does colloquially refer to schizophrenia, I've heard people use the word this way for as long as I can remember. General purpose English dictionaries document this colloquial meaning, I checked several to be sure: "(archaic) schizophrenic" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schizoid https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schizoid "characterized by, resulting from, tending toward, or suggestive of schizophrenia" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schizoid https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schizoid "suffering from or behaving as if suffering from schizophrenia" https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/schizoid https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/schizoid "Informal. of or relating to schizophrenia or to multiple personality." https://www.dictionary.com/browse/schizoid https://www.dictionary.com/browse/schizoid "Someone who is schizoid has schizophrenia" https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/schizoid https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/schizoi...