As someone who’s been diagnosed with ASPD (which is colloquially known as sociopathy), it just means I’ve got a dysfunction in the part of my brain that automatically empathizes with others. When I’m put under a lot of stress that part of me can come out, because it’s my default wiring, so to speak, but the vast majority of the time I’m able to manually empathize with other people and think it through rather than relying on intuition.
But yeah, the point I wanted to make is that just because someone’s a ‘sociopath’ it doesn’t mean that they’re irredeemably broken.
Yes, ASPD is the correct term and we do wish people would stop using the ‘scary’ and incorrect wording sociopathy and psychopathy, since that isn’t how they’re defined anywhere officially as far as we’re aware.
Yeah, we’ve done some research recently and have a lot of empathy, sympathy, care and understanding for those who are diagnosed with ASPD. Thank you for explaining how it effects you though.
As someone who’s been diagnosed with ASPD (which is colloquially known as sociopathy), it just means I’ve got a dysfunction in the part of my brain that automatically empathizes with others. When I’m put under a lot of stress that part of me can come out, because it’s my default wiring, so to speak, but the vast majority of the time I’m able to manually empathize with other people and think it through rather than relying on intuition.
But yeah, the point I wanted to make is that just because someone’s a ‘sociopath’ it doesn’t mean that they’re irredeemably broken.
Yes, ASPD is the correct term and we do wish people would stop using the ‘scary’ and incorrect wording sociopathy and psychopathy, since that isn’t how they’re defined anywhere officially as far as we’re aware.
Yeah, we’ve done some research recently and have a lot of empathy, sympathy, care and understanding for those who are diagnosed with ASPD. Thank you for explaining how it effects you though.
Yes, we agree, thanks for backing us up :).