[DSM-IV-R (1994)]
"a pervasive pattern of indifference to social relationships"
People with this disorder do not seem to desire or enjoy close relationships with other people. They almost always choose solitary activities.
Scandinavia contain areas with this highest prevalence rates of schizophrenia, schizoaffective psychoses, schizotypal personality, and schizoid personality disorder.
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Virtual companionship is fine: no bacon sandwiches have to be prepared, my bathroom is not full of strange emollients and I am not forced to listen to endless episodes of 'Friends'. You can't be me, I'm taken
We'll forgive incoherence as the day progresses. Well, anyway I won't notice yours due to my own. keep to the Fen Causeway
The last item BTW was Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah for a literature-read relative. I sought it for long, but it seems I was looking for it on the wrong shelves: I found it tucked away among crime pulp fiction... *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.