Autism Vs. Schizophrenia Dichotomy
Before I whine, it's important to understand the theory of the dichotomy of autism and schizophrenia. This theory states that on a one-dimensional axis, you can put autism on one extreme and schizophrenia on the other. If you think about it, autism and schizophrenia are opposite to each other. Let's analyze the symptoms of the two. Think of the stereotypical autist; common symptoms include sensory hypersensitivity, amplified pattern recognition, hyperfocused interest in things, especially in the technical aspects. These symptoms cause autists to live in an amplified sense of reality. Autists also often lack social skills and can commonly be asocial if not schizoid. On the opposite end, when we think of the stereotypical schizophrenic, we think of things such as their having delusions, hallucinations, and unjustified paranoia. These symptoms cause them to live in a diminished sense of reality. They also tend to be socially functional if not more sociable than the average person. You can then take this dichotomy and apply it to societies as a whole and study whether they display stereotypically autistic or schizophrenic traits. What I have noticed is that societies are moving towards the schizophrenia side of this imaginary scale and this also relates to the worsening state for autistic people.
Societal Schizophrenia
Let's look at society and how it relates to this axis. Notice how since the rise of the internet, societies are displaying more schizophrenic symptoms. Notice how everyone is hypersensitive to news of foreign nations, how everyone's obsessed and fights over countries they've never been to nor can speak the language of. How despite in many places, the violent crime rates going down for decades, everyone is more concerned about crimes than ever all because the news reports these things more and people use them to propagandise their beliefs. People never experience the vast majority of what the news says and for all they know, it could all just be completely made up, non-realities to their perception, but even still, people are becoming more concerned with things they've never experienced nor have any perception of. Even worse is people will fight over these what are non-realities to them, further dividing people.
The rise in mass surveillance is further evidence of societal schizophrenia. Think of the paranoid schizophrenic whom thinks people are out to get them so they set up a surveillance system to catch the bad guys or they're constantly recording everywhere they go because they think they're being gangstalked. Is this delusion of danger not too dissimilar to governments constantly increasing surveillance of citizens? Whether it's commies, terrorists, or pedophiles, the governments use some imaginary threat as an excuse to increase surveillance and pass laws that restrict people's freedoms. The same applies with citizens too as I discuss in Citizen-Controlled Surveillance. Just like the schizophrenic thinking some imaginary entity is out to get them, schizophrenic society thinks there are bad guys out to get them because they're constantly exposed to various entities' propaganda.
Notice how this paranoia over imaginary bad guys has seeped into every aspect of society. Notice how every place is monitored. Notice how every basic thing you need to do to even survive requires you prove your identity and have what is essentially enough social credit by requiring background checks and credit checks. How there are public databases of people's personal info such as data brokers, ownership and voting records which contain personal information which is often publicly accessible, or how people's criminal histories are kept public even if they've fully faced their punishment so society can discriminate against them which ironically, encourages criminal behavior. This mass surveillance and paranoia creates the desire to have access to what should be private information.
Since the rise in social media, people are more concerned with the affairs of others which are often manufactured for online images. Social media has lead to people creating fake lives to impress people that otherwise don't exist outside of their internet world and many obsess over people's perception of them on the internet, a non-reality. Many people even want the internet regulated so these as far as they're concerned, fake people, can't harm them, an issue I discuss in Cyberbullying - Biggest Nonissue. Parasocialness is also similar to how a schizophrenic may have the delusion they're in relationship, friendly, romantic, or otherwise with someone.
Social and legal constructs are really just delusions that people think are material reality and they obey made-up rules that simply do not matter. They seek licenses and permission for things which aren't materially real such as marriage. You must ask the government permission to change your name which is just a made-up word. You have to pretend pieces of paper determine everything. You must abide by the government's and society's rules for things that are not real and you will face consequences if you don't abide by what is literally just made-up stuff.
As you live your life, start thinking about all your observations of and interactions with society. You will quickly pick up on how so many aspects of society resemble symptoms of schizophrenia.
How Autists Suffer
Due to society becoming more schizophrenic, I believe autistic people suffer more. Returning to the sociability aspect, because schizophrenia generally doesn't affect the social skills of someone, this is why normal people have adapted so well to this and actually gives me the theory that high sociability in a way, is schizophrenic. As society has become more schizophrenic and therefore sociable, the rise in jobs requiring social skills has also increased and even of those that don't, the process of getting a job requires high sociability even if the job itself doesn't require any. This is why autists have such an absurdly high unemployment rate despite the majority being functional enough to do non-social jobs. The barrier to a job is socialization, not merit or basic ability and those who can play the game of socialization get jobs whereas the autist who is just as capable of doing a job can't.
Recently I noticed how schizophrenics pretty much never act violent. Even when they truly believe they're being harmed by whatever, I have never heard of a schizophrenic attacking someone they thought was after them. This is in stark contrast to autists whom are often stereotyped for their aggression. I myself even have an extensive history of violence and aggression. How this relates to the schizophrenic society is passivity. I have noticed how everyone is more passified as time goes by and institutions try their damnedest to passify people. Schools and sometimes parents condition you to take abuse without retaliation, police exist to create a reliance on the state for your defense instead of yourself, many places make it illegal to defend yourself too in many contexts, most people seem to hold the belief that all violence is unjust unless people in the right class enact said violence. While a schizophrenic may go on about how whatever is trying to harm them, they will almost never actually retaliate against the perceived threat whereas an autist will often use aggression against negative stimuli. And since society is more passive, this negatively affects autistic people whom will be persecuted for their aggressive tendencies even if they're just or a result of psychological problems caused by societal factors.
Notice how there's not really any societal pushes to cull schizophrenia and it seems to be widely accepted as a condition of which its havers are worthy of treatment and existence. On the other hand, the largest autism charity supports eugenics against autists and current happenings with governments may spark anti-autism sentiment. The autistic child is often portrayed as a nuisance that must be cured of their "ailment" and autistic adults due to their lack of sociability and therefore ability to function in a highly social, schizophrenic society, are pretty much viewed as subhuman trash and suffer as a result of what I've already mentioned which furthers the cycle of mental ailments and negative perception towards autists. You don't even have to be autistic either. Look at how NEETs and incels are looked down upon and deemed unworthy of the sympathy given to other people with mental problems simply for lacking social skills to function to society's liking.
Society becoming more schizophrenic may also explain why there seems to be an increase in autistic people. If society and therefore the average person on a scale of autistic to schizophrenic is shifting towards schizophrenia, then people who previously were slightly out of the autistic range will now seem autistic from the perspective of the average person who is now more schizophrenic. And because the schizophrenic has a diminished sense of reality, they're gonna blame nonsensical things like vaccines and goyslop on the rise in autists and encourage further discrimination against them since the autist is becoming more distant from the average person.
Written 2025-9-7 Published 2025-10-1