They know they're different.They act "normal". They think and feel different and they hide it.Hmmm.Sounds familiar.
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You're just intentionally pretending to be stupid. I've got news for you, it has been my observation that EVERY SINGLE PERSON has done this at one time or another. Hell's bells! You've just describe the typical behavior of ANY cultural minority when in the presence of the dominant culture. Of course, nobody (well, almost nobody) reading this would be dim-witted enough to believe that this sort of behavior is a sign of sociopathy.
One set of criteria include the following:
Callous unconcern for the feelings of others--not inability to figure them out.
Gross and persistent attitude of irresponsibility and disregard for social norms, rules, and obligations--note, ATTITUDE and DISREGARD, not inability to understand or comprehend. VERY DIFFERENT from the spectrum.
Incapacity to experience guilt and to profit from experience, particularly punishment.
Marked proneness to blame others or to offer plausible rationalizations for the behavior bringing the subject into conflict.
There are people who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars more on a horse (that is not going to be used for any potential monetary gain) than they would ever think to donate to charity.
Not giving money to charity and sending people to gas chambers are two different things
By matters of degree. The only thing that evil needs to thrive is that men of good will do nothing.
Letting someone starve to death and running him through are different, too. Some poor schmuck still dies, either way. The difference is probably no comfort to the dead guy.
Yes, I do give, when I can. I don't have the hundreds of thousands to spend on playtime--heck, I don't have any money to spend on playtime right now.
Watching movies like Sicko make me ashamed to be an American, and if I wasn't born and raised an American to parents born and raised American, on principle I'd go be a Canadian, British, or French citizen.....
I do think we can learn from the European Union...... coalition military operations, expanded use of non-hydrocarbon energy (France has nuclear, Iceland geothermal, windmills elsewhere), better concept of democracy.....
Oh, and trading with Cuba..... American government still sulks over Cuba's government like an ex girlfriend
I wasn't pretending to be stupid.I just seem to have a strange sense of humor.
"You're a racist. Ha ha, just kidding."
"You're a sociopath. Ha ha, just kidding."
I wasn't pretending to be stupid.I just seem to have a strange sense of humor.
"You're a racist. Ha ha, just kidding."
"You're a sociopath. Ha ha, just kidding."
Thats more like it
My second son does stuff pretty much like that and then gets upset when people pound him for it. I keep trying to remind him of the rule that "I was just joking." does not erase a consequence or response. If it would be hurtful without saying "I was just joking." then it will be hurtful even with "I was just joking."
Hmm. I'm an introvert, but I have a highly addictive personality...
Dostoevsky went so far as to posit that terrorists were under the throes of demonic possession. It's, of course, not nearly so romantic. It's very easy to take monstrous acts "for the greater good". After all, it's what prenatal testing and places like Rothenberg amount to.
I started to read his book (Dostoevsky) Crime and punishment, weeks ago and just could not go thru with it. The main character was so devoid of redeeming qualities, it was so pathetic and daunting to look thru those eyes.
The odd thing is that I saw so much of Raskolnikov in my fellow classmates when I read the book. Many were so eager to do the monstrous thing "for the right reason", even if that "right reason" were merely popularity.
Infants believe that because their perspective comes from behind their own eyes, and not from behind anyone else's, that somehow their perspective is central, and that all others are tertiary. This makes them, in their mind, more important than anyone or anything else.
Narcissists are never able to grow out of that.
I would note that very often Aspies have trouble (as well as unwillingness) seeing the perspective of others.
For example, usually I can only show empathy if I have had firsthand experience with something; other than that, I can't put myself in anyone else's shoes.
I don't think she is a psychopath though.
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No, that would be wrong. It's aspies who may believe their behavior is normal. Psychopaths simply don't give a *** -- or when they do, only because they gain on it.
If you want to simplify: aspies behave non-normally because they don't understand the norms, or can't apply them properly, and psychopaths behave non-normally because they don't care about norms or other people, even if they know it's against the norm. (Both are, as said, simplifications.)
There are at least two kinds of empathy: affective empathy and cognitive empathy. Here, have a quote:
And another:
Psychopaths have trouble with affective (also called emotional) empathy, autists have trouble with cognitive empathy (related to theory of mind) and maybe also motor empathy (which has to do with mirroring of actions, etc.)
So psychopaths may be quite adept at understanding norms but will nonetheless break them. On the other hand, people on the autistic spectrum will break them because they don't understand them, don't understand the justification or are unable to apply them.
(Maybe you can tell I've taken some interest in this lately; I wrote a rather long blog post about this recently, but it's in Norwegian, so I suppose it won't be readable to you folks.)
Make no mistake this one really thinks whatever he says is real and shows no emotion that a normal person or an aspies for that matter may show when telling a monster lie even when caught out.
Oh, I don't mean to dismiss your personal experiences. I do, however, think that generalizations are better if they are based on research that includes many people. Larger sample size, more scientific rigor, etc.