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sorry i cant hang out i forgot how to mimic human like behaviour

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I used to be more stereotypically “sociopathic” growing up. Vindictive, violent, manipulative, irresponsible, self-absorbed, and even experiencing a lot of homicidal ideation. I remember seeing a lot of children talk about how they wanted to kill people in an obviously-unauthentic attempt to make themselves look cool, mysterious, edgy, or like some Creepypasta character. I knew, even though I was young and didn’t know why I was the way I was, that I couldn’t be open about my experiences because of this. I didn’t believe I was like that, but I didn’t want to make myself look that way regardless. It made it a lot harder to cope with my symptoms.

Even as an adult who understands myself a lot more and is doing “better” in a lot of ways, I still feel, to an extent, that I will come off as cringe or inauthentic if I am truly open.

I feel like I can’t share when I relate to a concept or a character without some annoying little shit arguing that I must not understand what I’m saying if so or that I must simply be purely evil (my personality isn’t really portrayed as being part of anything that isn’t simultaneously very harmful) OR lying.

Does anyone else find other people with aspd describing it cringe or fake on reflex even though you’re like wait that’s literally just what I’m like, it’s like some weird internalised ableism?

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My sideblog (this blog) now has more followers and gets a significant amount more attention than my main blog… That’s kind of funny.

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That’s… quite an unpleasant possibility, but I can imagine it being true in some cases, especially when it comes to NPD (due to the countless articles on how to destroy a narcissist.)

It’s very ironic to me that, in discussions surrounding Cluster B personality disorders, people with NPD (who are very sensitive to perceived insults/criticism) are unfairly maligned to the point of being labelled inherently abusive, and people with HPD (who have a strong desire for attention) are forgotten about/ignored.

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no one appreciates that i could be a million times worse

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How are you supposed to just get up and go to school and go to work and come home and make dinner and fold the laundry and not want to kill yourself the whole fucking time.

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It’s very ironic to me that, in discussions surrounding Cluster B personality disorders, people with NPD (who are very sensitive to perceived insults/criticism) are unfairly maligned to the point of being labelled inherently abusive, and people with HPD (who have a strong desire for attention) are forgotten about/ignored.

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‘Aren’t we friends?’

Look, you seem cool but i don’t swing that way

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who needs remorse when instead you can be comfortable with being a cunt and not care about it

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what doesn't kill you makes you weird at intimacy

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“youre so mean” if you guys werent fucking stupid i wouldnt have to be mean to you. change starts with you

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i've reflected on my behavior and decided i did nothing wrong

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I’m not repeating myself further, but I will clarify one thing. You keep saying it’s a profile, yes. One outlined by the checklist I mentioned, in shorthand.

I need you guys to understand that “psychopath” means “person with ASPD of an assumed psychogenic/mostly psychogenic nature who scores high on the PCL-R” and “sociopath” means “person with ASPD of an assumed traumagenic/mostly traumagenic nature who scores high on the PCL-R”. Nothing more, nothing less… Certain personality factors may be more common in one instance of ASPD than another, but it is a myth that everyone with the disorder is either “calm, charismatic, and emotionless” or “impulsive, unstable, and violent”.

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What sources, aside from common usage and word etymology, would exist to back up a definition of a pop culture term?

There would be no clinical studies that define the term because it’s not… a scientific term.

If you bring something up in a response to MY post, I’m going to comment on it, yes. That does not say much about me as it pertains to the specifics of what you said.

I am mentioning those things to refute the implication that I’m misinformed about ASPD itself. I am not, and you disagreeing with me when it comes to what a pop culture term means doesn’t change that.

Someone with a brain hardwired differently from birth/TBI would not be a “socio-” anything. That makes zero sense. If you disagree because the people who use that term in a serious setting tend to be stupid and throw it around everywhere, then so be it. I really do not care to discuss this further, especially on a blog like this, and I believe both of us have said what we need to. Take an English class if prefixes having established meanings bothers you so much, and perhaps consider the reality that pop psychology can impact people living with diagnoses (and that psychological terms of any nature can be up for debate even among professionals) because life doesn’t only take place on paper.

I need you guys to understand that “psychopath” means “person with ASPD of an assumed psychogenic/mostly psychogenic nature who scores high on the PCL-R” and “sociopath” means “person with ASPD of an assumed traumagenic/mostly traumagenic nature who scores high on the PCL-R”. Nothing more, nothing less… Certain personality factors may be more common in one instance of ASPD than another, but it is a myth that everyone with the disorder is either “calm, charismatic, and emotionless” or “impulsive, unstable, and violent”.

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Find me research articles that prove the opposite.

Sociopathy is not a term that research articles seriously use. That doesn’t mean that it can’t mean something in any setting. My post was not about clinical diagnoses (ASPD was the only one mentioned, and the only relevant one in any case.) My post was about people applying arbitrary meanings to pop culture terms in a way that has been reapplied to clinical ASPD and made it seem as if we are all either Patrick Bateman or the Joker.

The prefix “socio-” quite literally means relating to society or sociology. Social psychopathy, to put it plainly. The term does not need to be rooted in science or linked to psychological studies to be able to be defined at all, and the idea of sociopathy being social is commonly referred to even when there is also the whole… Jokeresque exaggerated description of a more impulsive presentation of ASPD (which is a trait that can be more easily tied to trauma in clinical studies, in comparison to coldness.) Yes, psychopathy and sociopathy are used interchangeably in most articles that even use those terms, but this shouldn’t be surprising considering the fact that… neither are diagnoses. These terms still impact the lived experiences of many people with ASPD, because if you tell anyone you have the disorder, they will Google it and see these terms.

Lastly, I am in my 20s, have diagnosed ASPD, and studied psychology in college for some time. The field is full of debates and the DSM is constantly being revised. I am neither lying or misinformed, and while I don’t disagree that a lot of people online are edgy teenage LARPers, if you bring this up anytime you disagree with someone who claims to be a “psychopath” (not that I even USE that term for myself), then you likely have no real legs to stand on when it comes to an actual debate.

I need you guys to understand that “psychopath” means “person with ASPD of an assumed psychogenic/mostly psychogenic nature who scores high on the PCL-R” and “sociopath” means “person with ASPD of an assumed traumagenic/mostly traumagenic nature who scores high on the PCL-R”. Nothing more, nothing less… Certain personality factors may be more common in one instance of ASPD than another, but it is a myth that everyone with the disorder is either “calm, charismatic, and emotionless” or “impulsive, unstable, and violent”.