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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”.

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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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“nobody is making you do this” i am driven by unnatural forces you will never even begin to comprehend

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My favorite thing is balance.

"I see where I fucked up, but can you understand where I'm coming from?"

"Oh, I'm sorry that happened to you, what can I do to help? I remember when something similar happened to me and this is what helped."

"Do you want me to be honest?" *mixes in a little cruel honesty to my usual blend of tacit honesty and dishonesty*

It makes manipulation so much smoother.

I agree; I think, if I have to lie/be dishonest, I can’t have it seem as if it’s the perfect response that is benefitting me in the most ideal way, because then that brings ulterior motives into the question.

Flattery, too. It can be a useful way to perk someone up a little if you do choose to disclose something more “harsh”.

I like what I call loaded flattery; I’m not sure if there is a term for it otherwise, but I often tell people that I assumed they wouldn’t care or assumed they’d be okay with something because of some assumed positive trait or positive/agreeable past experience… Then, after that, I will say I was sorry; it’s a far nicer way of saying “I thought you were cool, but I guess I was wrong about you; you’re a fragile little pussy, so I’ll treat you as such.” Simply refusing to apologize seems like making excuses or disregarding their feelings/criticisms, and simply saying sorry by itself makes you look wholly and unjustifiably in the wrong, without real reason to have done whatever they are taking issue with. It’s showing that I am willing to accommodate them, but also painting that accommodation in a negative light in a way that doesn’t seem outright critical of them in a cruel way.

Balance is very important.

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