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A pattern of peculiarities best describes those with schizotypal personality disorder. People may have odd or eccentric manners of speaking or dressing. Strange, outlandish or paranoid beliefs and thoughts are common. 

People with schizotypal personality disorder have difficulty forming relationships and experience extreme anxiety in social situations. They may react inappropriately or not react at all during a conversation or they may talk to themselves. 

They also display signs of "magical thinking" by saying they can see into the future or read other people’s minds.

A pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits, acute discomfort with and reduced capacity for close relationships. as well as by cognitive and conceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior.

Onset is early adulthood.

Some of the typical signs are:

• ideas of reference
• odd beliefs or 'magical thinking' that influences behavior and is inconsistent with cultural norms
• unusual perceptual experiences
• odd thinking and speech
• suspicious and paranoid ideation
• inappropriate or constricted affect
• eccentric appearance and/or behavior
• lack of close friends
• intense social anxiety