>>11902795Why is this post bullshit?
No, schizophrenia is not characterized by drowning in narratives or having its life being driven by any sort of narrative. In fact, schizophreniacs fail to form a narrative at all. Especially when it comes to embedding themselves into those narratives.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19955004/This is in agreement with what one would expect from failure to properly distinguish reality from fantasy, a failure to have a proper identify of self together with very scewed senses.
Schizophreniacs fail to properly interpret social cues, they have problems with theory of mind to a degree only seen in severely autistic people.
Thus, being unable to predict what other people do + the actual and ever-shifting inconsistencies around them make them anxious. Their paranoia simply being the manifestation of another hallucination.
>>11900882There is no inherent link between those two. There are some superficial similarities but the underlying manifestation is very different. Autistic people are mostly aloof, oblivious to social impulses because of numerous things, sometimes comorbid with alexithymia and prosopagnosia. Sometimes they fail to develop verbal language. Mostly, they develop a proper understanding of their non-social surroundings even if unable to properly communicate that.
Schizophrenia is assumed to be something that develops rather than is innate. Unlike autistic people who themselves describe that they have different needs, different emotions, you don't find many such stories in schizophreniacs prior to developing schizophrenia.
