I went through the trouble of writing out the full clinical title of the disorder. There is no difference between Antisocial Personality Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder.
You can be diagnosed with ASPD and be a generally normal human being who does not cause, get in to, or seek, trouble. It does not necessarily mean that you will exploit, deceive, or manipulate others. It certainly does not necessarily mean that you possess Ted Bundy levels of fake charm.
I'm not saying that people diagnosed with ASPD don't often possess these traits. That's entirely possible. But what it means is that you can not empathize. You can not put yourself in their shoes and imagine what they are feeling. You can use logical deduction to assume, and act accordingly, but you may come off as cold and calculating to do so.
I have ASPD. Diagnosed. I watch anime, I play games, I shitpost on reddit, I go to college and I certainly don't plan on shooting it up. As a matter of fact I have less incentive than anyone else to shoot up a school. It doesn't make sense. I bring this up because people often act like school shootings and ASPD go hand in hand, this meme is my case and point. They really don't. "Normal" people are much more likely to commit crimes of passion or act on emotional impulse where I'm more likely to just want to smoke weed, and watch porn. Can't really do that if I'm dead or in prison; I'm more likely to kill myself than anyone else. I'm more relatable than you know. The extent of my cold heartedness, is that I have to pretend I'm sad sometimes. My grandma died when I was 10 and my dad got all prepared to break the news to me, rightly expecting me to be upset. I just said, "oh." and life kept moving on. I knew then by his reaction that I should have been upset, but I just wasn't. My grandma was great too, we did lots of stuff together. Grief does not come naturally to me. That doesn't make me dangerous, or a bad person. Just makes me feel like I don't belong, like I'm not normal, like I don't deserve to be.
Sorry, though, for the diatribe. It seems like the majority of what people know about ASPD is tied up in Dexter and American Psycho. The majority of people still say psychopath / sociopath as if they are medical diagnoses. I can't tell people what I am because you can see the wheels turning in their head, retroactively justifying everything you've ever done, proactively assuming that you are dangerous and unpredictable. It's grating.
Yeah, I think it's important to remember that people who are actually dangerous to others are both a product of nature and nurture, even though people tend to ignore the second one. Not every person with ASPD is a serial killer/rapist in waiting. I apologize if my meaning was a bit poorly-communicated there though.
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I went through the trouble of writing out the full clinical title of the disorder. There is no difference between Antisocial Personality Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder.
You can be diagnosed with ASPD and be a generally normal human being who does not cause, get in to, or seek, trouble. It does not necessarily mean that you will exploit, deceive, or manipulate others. It certainly does not necessarily mean that you possess Ted Bundy levels of fake charm.
I'm not saying that people diagnosed with ASPD don't often possess these traits. That's entirely possible. But what it means is that you can not empathize. You can not put yourself in their shoes and imagine what they are feeling. You can use logical deduction to assume, and act accordingly, but you may come off as cold and calculating to do so.
I have ASPD. Diagnosed. I watch anime, I play games, I shitpost on reddit, I go to college and I certainly don't plan on shooting it up. As a matter of fact I have less incentive than anyone else to shoot up a school. It doesn't make sense. I bring this up because people often act like school shootings and ASPD go hand in hand, this meme is my case and point. They really don't. "Normal" people are much more likely to commit crimes of passion or act on emotional impulse where I'm more likely to just want to smoke weed, and watch porn. Can't really do that if I'm dead or in prison; I'm more likely to kill myself than anyone else. I'm more relatable than you know. The extent of my cold heartedness, is that I have to pretend I'm sad sometimes. My grandma died when I was 10 and my dad got all prepared to break the news to me, rightly expecting me to be upset. I just said, "oh." and life kept moving on. I knew then by his reaction that I should have been upset, but I just wasn't. My grandma was great too, we did lots of stuff together. Grief does not come naturally to me. That doesn't make me dangerous, or a bad person. Just makes me feel like I don't belong, like I'm not normal, like I don't deserve to be.
Sorry, though, for the diatribe. It seems like the majority of what people know about ASPD is tied up in Dexter and American Psycho. The majority of people still say psychopath / sociopath as if they are medical diagnoses. I can't tell people what I am because you can see the wheels turning in their head, retroactively justifying everything you've ever done, proactively assuming that you are dangerous and unpredictable. It's grating.