It definitely changed mine. I still make friends, just not as many as I did before the illness. Some conversations are honestly boring to me, and I don’t always enjoy very close communication. Basically… sometimes I don’t even notice what has changed in me, but my circle of friends is definitely much smaller.
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I am not very creative with my speech. When I talk to my mom she is the one leading the way for the conversation. We often talk about the same things day in day out. I have poverty of speech I think! 
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Actually,I like how schizophrenia changed my social life…
I know it looks strange,but I’m not impulsive as I was …
Also,I got quit with all friends,and some family.It came with some price,but I care more for my privacy and wellbeing .. Also pray when I can.
It comes with years of internal pain,but at least no one "close to me"hurting me .
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i think i have some ptsd from my episodes which makes me want to go out less, so overall im less social because of sz lol
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Same for me…I think the sz and bullying at work definitely changed me. Ptsd and rejection sensitivity …
I was far more social before sz even tho I was still a little less social than normals.
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Yeah i think it has changed me but at the same time I feel like it might be the impact ot trauma from psychosis that has caused me to be in my own head most often of times.
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I can think much easier than I can speak. When I go to say what I’m thinking I get all tongue tied and forget what my thoughts were. But I think it’s from my antipsychotics I’m on. I need them and will always take them but they make communicating verbally more difficult
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Before sz I was like: “how are you sir..nice weather we have today, wouldn’t you say?” 
Now I’m like: “what up homes? You better chill bro!..winter coming, ya know.” 
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I am very self conscious.
So, I second guess everything I wanna say.
But I may have always been like that.
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i suffer from social withdrawl and alogia
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Pretty substantial negatives so I talk and even communicate pretty minimally if compared to the mythical normies.
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My friendship groups were always small
Not had one for over a decade now
I am content with it now
Honestly I’d struggle to share my life with a group again
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