I am a 25 year old woman was diagnosed with ASPD at age 20, ask me anything
Do you wish you knew how other’s emotions feel?
Is your life still enjoyable although you experience emotions differently?
Does it take a lot of practice to be able to manipulate others well?
Do you view your condition as a true disorder or an advantageous adaptive trait? (There are some convincing scientific data supporting the idea that psychopathy is not a disorder.)
Can you easily recognize psychopathy in world leaders?
Do you sincerely care about a person in your life?
“Do you wish you knew how other’s emotions feel?”
Yeah, it would give me a lot of insight into those around me.
“Is your life still enjoyable although you experience emotions differently?”
Not really. The thing is with ASPD you get board really quickly and super easily. So I feel like I’m more dependent on thrill and excitement then other people.
“Does it take a lot of practice to be able to manipulate others well?”
Not really. It’s just something that’s second nature to me.
“Do you view your condition as a true disorder or an advantageous adaptive trait? (There are some convincing scientific data supporting the idea that psychopathy is not a disorder.)”
Both, on one hand empathy can be pretty difficult to live with but on the other ASPD is a very stigmatized thing to have.
“Can you easily recognize psychopathy in world leaders?”
I’m not a therapist so no.
“Do you sincerely care about a person in your life”
No, since I’m incapable of caring or empathizing for anyone else.
Thanks for answering the last ones.
I hear ASPD people do not experience anxiety. Do you know what it feels like?
Have you considered suicide due to boredom?
What common emotional traits are most exploitable?
Does the activity with the prisoners satisfy the thrill seeking need you have from boredom?
Not a question, but a comment on your answer about world leaders… It’s surprising that you don’t notice. There are very many antisocial behaviors with world leaders and the very rich. I feel like you will definitely start to notice at some point. There is a lot of gaslighting and manipulation of people based on their anger and prejudice. You’ll see it eventually for sure.
I hear ASPD people do not experience anxiety. Do you know what it feels like?
Well, if I don’t feel it how can I know what it feels like? As someone who is incapable of empathy it’s impossible of to understand how things I don’t feel feel.
Have you considered suicide due to boredom?
Nothing that extreme. I am more prone to boredom then others so I have done some wild things in the past. Like, when I was younger I had a thing for lightning fires and compulsive lying.
What common emotional traits are most exploitable?
Fear, definitely. You can get someone to do anything if they’re scared enough. Anger is a good one also.
Does the activity with the prisoners satisfy the thrill seeking need you have from boredom?
Yes, it’s half the reason I got the job. It was a fantasy I had for a long time before hand and I just love dangerous and taboo nature of it.
Not a question, but a comment on your answer about world leaders… It’s surprising that you don’t notice. There are very many antisocial behaviors with world leaders and the very rich. I feel like you will definitely start to notice at some point. There is a lot of gaslighting and manipulation of people based on their anger and prejudice. You’ll see it eventually for sure.
Well, it’s nice to have a condition shared by so many successful people.
Can you still get chills when a really good song plays?
Not really. I don’t think anyone gets chills from listening to music.
Ha ha. Yes they do. That’s really interesting.
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Get up really tried, go to work, fuck a bunch of inmates, go home, smoke weed until I past out, repeat
That means you’re a rapist.
“rapist”? I’m a anything but. Trust me, you haven’t seen more willing participants in your life.
What’re your favorite strains?
sativa
Asking for a friend… If all you answer with is yes and no in a onesided conversation. How do you escape it to fade back into the background?
I don’t, I like talking to people. Having ASPD doesn’t mean your anti social in a typical sense it’s means your anti social as in you have characteristics which go against societal norms.
Do you lie often? (Yes, I’m aware of the paradoxical nature of this question.)
Yes, I do. I try to keep it about little things though. I don’t lie as much as I did when I was younger. I have made a lot of progress in this area.
Why do you like talking to people? Most folks I know who are extravert also have lots of empathy. Maybe I’m wrong though.
I just like being around people. It’s weird, I’m social but anti social.
hmm… Have that probably something else…
do you have friends? Do they know you have ASPD?
Yes and no, they don’t as that would probably make me lose them considering how stigmatized it is.
You seem at odds with your diagnosis. What made you post something publicly and why would you want to engage? Good on you, though, for taking the leap!
I through it would make an interesting thread and it be nice if people heard about this condition from someone who actually has it.
You are right, of course. Thanks for posting and Season’s Greetings!
You should run for office, if you didle kids you can even be US president!
I couldn’t, I’m too young
Are you religious? If so, what?
