How is your sociability? Before I started having symptoms I wanted to go out every weekend and be around my friends a lot. After I started having symptoms I started being anxious and paranoid around other people. I really only leave my house at night nowadays. I see a mix of people here who are sociable and some who aren’t, how is yours specifically? Everyone comment.
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I was less social when growing up. Only to school and then back home, sometimes to babysitting.
Never had a desire to leave the house I was in. Never a desire to talk to others.
Something happened to me in my mid 40’s, Sz or not, I started to open up to others, but only some folks, but it was better than none.
I have never liked crowds, nor “Parties” anyway, so nothing different there.
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I no longer have a social life, work and home for years now
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When I was a child/ it was more a case of being shy and not knowing the unwritten rules of social engagement. It was nigh on impossible to make friends so I didn’t socialise much.
As a teenager then adult the same things have applied
but with paranoia and social anxiety both thrown into the mix.
I still have the social difficulties which caused social rejection as a child/teenager and back away from social engagement rather than risk rejection and ridicule.
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i was very outgoing and social as a kid that changed when i was a teen. In highschool i couldnt talk to people i was super quiet especially around girls. My last year of highschool i found alcohol allowed me to be more social but it was just liquid courage. I drank and did drugs for years to help with anxiety and allow me to be more social. Im sober a while now and still learning how to interact with people.
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I have an old pensioner friend who I meet for drinks.
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I am not a social person in the early days, but then I realize you come alone in this world and go alone but you cannot live alone. Then I work on socializing and love to make friends. One thing is important for all it’s the weirdness of ours and others that help us connect.
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I was kinda social as a kid, but anxiety quickly ruined that. Then I got ill with schizophrenia as a teen and it got much worse (would look away and pretend people didn’t exist when talking to me). I’m getting better all the time though.
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A lot less social that I used to be!! Nowadays I think my relationship with my friends are so supercifially in some cases.
And meeting new people is almost impossible.
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I never was a social bee but I was able to meet new people and make acquaintances, sometimes friends. I used to feel awkward in large groups, especially if there were lots of pretty women among us. But all in all I managed almost every situation. I had girlfriends too, though the most desired ones have always escaped me 
aaanyway, now since I fell ill I no longer feel the urge to meet up with people, but when I do, I behave perfectly fine.
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When I was a kid, I was very social. When I became a late teen, I became very asocial. I had zero friends. I stayed that way a long time. Until I was 36, when I developed one friend. At age 44, I developed two friends. I am now 57 and I still have only two friends. I spend most of my time alone. I prefer it that way.
I have some enforced socializing at the assisted living center for the mentally ill where I live. I avoid a lot of the socializing, but I’ve discovered that I do need at least a little socializing. I don’t interact that much. I keep to myself. But just having other people around keeps me a little more in the center.
My parents and my BCM are all I have. I’ve been in an LTSR since end of January so I’ve had limited contact but it’s thankfully increased lately. Most of my friends have proven to be traitors who only associate with me when they want something from me
I have few if any friends irl. I don’t really have any avenue to meet people. Here it’s either churches or bars if you want to meet people. I tried churches and I wasn’t high class enough for them to be seen with me outside of church.
I’ve always been really quiet when I was a kid I was basically mute and my classmates would speak for me, as I grew older my mind became more and more empty, and in high school I never talked to anyone at all and would mostly keep to myself and would hate it when people asked me why I never talked or why I was the way I was I’m glad it’s over now my mind is still empty, but what can you do? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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I am less social than I was before I got sick but I still have a normal social life.
Before, I was more social but also really fake and didn’t realize it. Now I avoid everyone, and anyone I deal with I keep it brief. But I feel most comfortable around people I don’t have history with, aka strangers. Anyone who doesn’t know about me is a blank slate, which really helps. But I still prefer to be a shut-in because that’s the least risk of being outside my comfort zone. Unfortunately, it’s tricky for me to ask a stranger what view they have of me so I can have a look at myself from someone else’s view.
I feel like everyone I speak too is judging me negatively. It’s part of my paranoia
When I was very symptomatic I isolated and didn’t want to meet anyone not even my closest because I had delusions about them that they were bad to me etc.
I think I’m socially awkward.
I can go mute and uncomfortable.
I don’t have friends to hang out with online or in person.
I think I have friends in spirit I miss n love and I have a friend I email a couple times a year.
I have you guys.
