I had an internet stalker (who probably would have been an IRL stalker if she could get on a plane to cross the Atlantic) who claimed to be schizotypical, but she wore is as a badge of pride and seemed to be in love with the illness and the suffering she received. Her stories of her daily hardships made me sympathetic to her at first, because
of course I don't want to be seen as a bad person. She said she was also autistic, but schizoid disorders and autism are very rarely ever comorbid. I pointed this out to her after I was informed of this by a biology major of this, and suggested perhaps she had something closer to BPD, and she flipped out and called me and compared me to a Holocaust denier. When I blocked her, she started tracking down pretty much every single account I'd made on any website ever and sent me creepy, threatening messages.
Point was, she was in love with schizophrenia. She saw her pride in it being no different from deaf pride. But what
really tipped me off was how she latched onto fictional characters with inaccurate depictions of schizophrenia. Johnny the Homicidal Maniac was her Sonic the Hedgehog, and she was creepy enough that not even the JtHM fandom wanted to deal with her, and kicked her ass out. She'd even tried to stalk Jhonen Vasquez online, but that poor bastard is probably used to nutty fangirls, so she was no doubt just another drop in the bucket.
Point is, she loved the idea of having schizophrenia because it provided a cover for her bizarre behavior, it gave her a tragic backstory (people throw rocks at me in the street! My only best friend is a 40 year old man who's in love with GLaDOS! I'm afraid I'm going to kill myself at any time so DON'T EVER SAY ANYTHING TO UPSET ME!). The biggest red flag that she didn't have it was probably that she was extremely manipulative and would lie to people constantly. She only backed down from harassing me when I threatened to get the police involved, at which point she became the most apologetic, simpering ninny on the planet.
I don't know what she's up to now, but I'd hardly be surprised if she was doing the same thing in some other new fandom. she never learns.
One of the main drugs they use, Risperidone (an antipsychotic) can cause weight gain of huge amounts, like make you go from thin to obese amounts. So youre either totally insane and thin or somewhat able to cope and very fat.
I know Risperidone is what made Wesley Willis so fat. You see pictures of him as a young man before his symptoms showed up, and he was a very thin dude.
