>>35714
The need for others part is for the separate condition paranoid personality disorder.
I think they mean emotional zombies as in they don't feel emotions, not that they feed off the emotions of others.
>>35747
It's not really alleviated by speaking to people online because schizoids have no need to speak to others period. They are self-sufficient and thrive when isolated from others. Schizoids tend to be more social in anonymous forums because there's no onus to ever reply to someone and it's easy to create false online personas when speaking to people.