here in the USA dissociation is a normal reaction to a positive or negative trigger....

example think about a time when someone said something you did not like (the trigger) what was your reaction to what they said (anger)

dissociation is like that. something happens (trigger) to make a person feel spaced out, numb, foggy minded, disconnected but reality remains intact.

examples of normal dissociation.... tonight I was looking out the window at the street light. it looked so nice and calming to me. I started feeling a bit numb and spaced out, i could see my hand on the window glass, I knew it was my hand, but I just could not feel it from the mental point of view.

A person does not have to have been abused or traumatized to have dissociation problems in their life.

dissociation happens to every human being many times a day in their daily life and is completely normal. it becomes abnormal and a dissociative disorder when it fits the diagnostic criteria for a dissociative disorder here in america. you can read more about these these dissociative disorders in my link at the bottom of my post.

to answer your question I do not have schizoaffective disorder but I know many with it that do also have dissociation problems of all levels from the normal to the abnormal, some even have been dual diagnosed with both a dissociative disorder and a schizophrenic type disorder.