Schizotypal Personality Disorder

I don't understand while they (the so called normal people) label us with this title. I would think that anyone who believes in a god, angels and the like would also be labeled with this. In other words a majority of the worlds population.

Yes! I totally relate to your thoughts.
For some reason it's what's widely "accepted" that brings people the label "normal" no matter how far out these ideas may be.

I truly don't get it either.

Guess-- the more people that believe in something the more "healthy" it is regarded to be. (and as long as males are held in the highest position)

Why must the masses judge (judge not, lest ye be judged)? Don't they see you can't have one without the other? Was Einstein, Divinci, Plato judged and condemned by the masses?

I know right???
I always thought I just had a huge imagination and ADD or something lol

Actually there were judged crazy and condemned by the masses of their time... Religion is basically a tool to create order out of chaos and as humans are social and territorial (may not be the right word but cant think of it) creatures if you are not a part of their order you are a threat to it ie: chaos.

For most people the thought of chaos is so overwhelming and scary they become so radical and closed minded and defensive of their established "order" they defend it at all cost for any perceived possible attacks on it.

just IMO....

I agree Denise.........

thats all so true, i hate it when people say im not normal, i always answer ... whats normal?

I agree with you. I am pretyy open with people on what I beleive just not my husband because he is very religous and thinks it's all from Satan. So where does that leave him? Hmm. I don't believe in this title. It makes me angry.

LOL, my husband is a christain minister. But he knows I am pagan, and we have discussed our points of view many times, and he does agree with some of my pagan beliefs.....If your dear hubby is so religious ask him what happened to Lilith, Adams first wife in the bible? You can always back up your questions with non-fiction documentation as I did. Good luck sweetie.... Knowledge maybe power, but ignorance is bliss.

I am not going there with him,lol. I am not pagan, I do believe in Christ and God. But I do also believe in a lot of paranormal stuff. I can't even imagine what it must be like for you. My brother and sister in law were wiccan, don't know if they still are, but like me, they know alot of the paranormal world. My brother and I from when we were very young. He is 13 years younger than me. My sister says she had no interest until she got our brothers kidney,lol. Then it all changed. My husband is very upset that I don't believe as his church does anymore because I said I did when we got married. My mistake. It is hard when you are married and believe differently, when it is so important to the other person that you believe in the same thing. He fears that demons are opressing me from way back in my childhood when we had a ghost dog, because the ghost dog was of course demonic. We don't talk about that much anymore.
Will people think I am nuts with these stories? some. But others no. Who do you listen to? When you open up to a therapist and talk about this stuff, do they actually put a stamp on your head that your nuts? That's nut's http://www.4degreez.com/misc/persona...test.mv?stat=1 my results of that test. Moderate for most everything, including schizotypycal, and very high for borderline, which I was diagnosed with before.

I believe you. I have seen things that would scare the pants off most folks, but grew up with the paranormal being normal for me.

Me too. The book with the demon names right up there with the bible, and is my child psychic and whatever paranormal thing that was going on. Every house just about was haunted half of everone was psychic to some degree. All magical thinking? Were we all crazy? It was the late part of free love and hippie's. Seances, ouiji boards that would conjur up demons everytime I touched the board. What have you. Oh, And don't forget the big black wolf size ghost dog that would walk through the house, check us all out, then disapear through the stove where there used to be a door to the garage. Story of that house was a man's piture was in the attic, the mans soul was trapped in the basement, something about self harm, he would wiggle the doorknob, but couldn't get through the door, because the dog gaurded the first floor. Everyone in the family has seen this dog, I was too young to remember and my brother wasn't born yet. But my sister, mother father all seen it, and I have very faint memories of a big black animal in my room at night. Ok. Enough crazy talk for me tonight, but these things happen it's not insanity, it's just not understood.

Yeah, what's deemed "normal" is subject to a lot of change. That's why I've never really payed a lot of attention to wether my beliefs were normal or not. Since I was 12 i focused on magical philosophy, and my faith has not wavered. Actually I've grown to see others as the ones who don't realize certain things.
I do a lot of small rituals and they always seem to work, main causes: belief and imagination.
Besides I don't think everything should be rationalized, somethings lose their value when they pass through the filter of reason...