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Why, hello! So soon, right? That's because I didn't need further repetition of my studies (except some data), since this is heavily linked with what we talked last time.
Sure, the Dark Triad was a success, but let's be real: it may have taught you to notice "evil" personality traits in people. But it hardly covered what many of us, sadly, effectively experience.
So, if in pt1 we saw the Dark Triad of personality traits and how to recognize them, this time we'll take a look at the most common form of social evil, the real evil people, and how to escape them. That's right: if you end up in any kind of relationship with them, you just can't simply walk away, unlike the Dark Triad guys.
pt1:
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The Dark Triad is good when you have to study personalities that function in society. The average sub-clinical psychopath, as another pointed out, starts as "amoral", in the sense that "evil" isn't intrinsic to humanity, and that's right: we consider evil what goes against society: selfishness, greediness... Those in the Dark Triad can be damaging (mostly to individuals), but they usually work in society, because that's the best way to obtain what they want, and by doing so, they end up "helping it" (like the super ambitious but ruthless capitalist innovator, for example the already mentioned Steve Jobs). This just proves that, even the traits we as society detest, can be used for good.
...However.
There are some traits that are so evil, that even if they look like they function in society, they are always damaging it, and that's because their goals are incompatible with society's goals and laws, let alone they go along with others.
Did you notice what linked together all the personas inside the Dark Triad? A varying, always lower grade of empathy. This doesn't mean "evil", this means "indifference", even to the pain of others. What links these "real evil" personas together? They all have an active hate toward people and society.
The "Evil Duo" (not a model, it's a name of fantasy I use here to encapsulate them, because they are the two most common traits in criminals, all of them) traits are not only very real, but it's very much possible that some of you actually met one of them. These personality disturbs are Malignant Narcissism and Sociopaths. These two are not inside the DSM-V, and are in fact the specialty of criminologists and forensic psychologists. Given my expertise in exactly this field, I'll be detailed, this time, while keeping it narrative for you. But I'll talk about sociopathy only today, because if I'm being descriptive, writing both wouldn't be pleasurable to read.
ASPD, Anti-Social Personality Disorder, is a personality disturb focused on the incapability of the subjects to follow social rules and rules in general, being very impulsive and having frequent rage outbursts. They also have a compromised (but still working) sense of empathy.
ASPD can be of two types: genetic/biological and environmental. When someone is born with biological ASPD, we refer to it as primary psychopathy, because the brain is severely affected. When we talk about environmental ASPD, we refer to a disturb born during childhood and caused by trauma, abuse, rape and such.
The environmental-acquired ASPD is a "spectrum", much like anything that is acquired during life experiences (and some genetic things, like Autism). This is why you can hear things like "he has some traits linked to X disturb". The more impulsive, socially inadapt and dangerous form is called Low-functioning sociopathy, while the "best" working, impulsive but adaptable, is called High-functioning sociopathy.
Given that high-functioning sociopaths are less than 1% of the total population, the same as primary psychopaths (commiting the 15% of all the crimes anyway), and given how at least 50% of all criminals are average/low-functioning sociopaths and account for 4% of world population, I'll focus on the "average" functioning ones, the most common in spectrum traits.
Well, you see: kids during their first 12 years, the pre-puberty age, are especially bonded toward their parents. I said this in the pedo post, so I'll keep it simple here: it's a biological, evolutionary thing. They inherently trust them as part of a bonding, growing process many animals share with us. Last time, I explained why raping them is a bad idea. But what if you just beat them up?
Let's suppose that the kid has a dysfunctional family: the dad is an alcoholic, the mother loves him but can't defend him or herself from the outburst of the father. How can he possibly trust his parents? And if he can't learn to trust inside his family, how can even learn to trust others outside?
But the concept is even worse than this: the trauma of being beaten, of being helpless as he beats his mother, it damages the brain. Remember the brain is still developing. The cognitive processes that should push him into trusting others get compromised, landing him directly into ASPD, that's why he can't grow to have real relationships and he ends up controlling his friends and partners. Maybe, the family is also poor, reaching barely the end of the month. This is already uncomfortable for everyone, because we feel something we can't control threatening us and those we care about. Now, imagine the kid in question, witnessing his father spending the few money the family has into alcohol, further ruining the family in front of his eyes, while already being alone inside it.
All the while, he grows to feel an anguished sense of helplessness. He WISHES to do something, to finally have the slightest control over his desperate situation, incapable to defending himself or even his mother, sometimes the only person he grows "fond" of (more of this later), because she's the only one who cares about him and makes him feel safe. So, he feels a lot of rage. He feels rage, because he's helpless. He wants to kill his father, but he can't, because he's scared of him. This rage is uncontrollable: he has outburst, damaging things around him, sometimes he ends up hurting animals. He feels good when he lets out the rage, he feels a bit more powerful, in control of his life, and if he hurts small animals, he associates hurting to the same satisfaction, the same good feeling of being in control.
If the kid grows up without the teachers noting anything (which is, sadly, very common), the kid will start to learn few things about "surviving". He learns, as soon as possible, to lie pathologically. The reasons are many, but the almost always present reason is that he has to lie to not anger his parents, because if he does something bad and they find out, he gets beaten.
Realizing that lying is actually the best weapon he has right now, he starts to lie over everything: after all, best case scenario, they get away with it, and worst case scenario, they get beaten just as if telling the truth. Telling lies and getting away with it though... it feels good, it makes him feel in control: finally, he can do something for himself.
As he grows up, he's by this time already violent and prone to outbursts. Given how it is his best way to vent out and assert control, empathy diminishes drastically, because at that point not only he's used to see pain himself and inflicted to others, but he knows that showing weakness is bad. Feeling weak is exactly how he never wants to feel anymore, he will always associate weakness, helplessness to those moments in family.
It goes without saying the he despises rules. In his family, following rules is... i mean, there are no rules: if the father is drunk, rules or not, if he's angry he's going to punish him. Rules are a lie, and more: breaking them, and do all he wants, it makes him feel good and in control. By this time, he probably also struggle to accomplish any "intellectual" activity, because he refuses to study and partake in school classes, and "develop" a similar condition to ADHD, because he can't really focus in anything.
This makes them unsuitable for almost all jobs. They're are very erratic about working, changing jobs after jobs, because they usually get fired after violating the rules (smoking inside the building, being constantly late). They wouldn't be suitable even for self-managing jobs, because they can't manage himself, failing to pay rent in time for example. Given how they don't feel remorse nor shame, this is only natural. They end up asking money to someone (because the instantly spent the whole salary into something they want), or try to commit small thievery or pickpocketing, and since they program these things either, they usually ends up being denounced several times already.
Usually, if slightly functioning, they work in small commitment jobs, like retail, delivery, dish-washing and similar, though they don't last long there if Low-functioning. For this reason, they usually end up in a homelessness situation.
Ironically, they usually return to do the same exact thing as before, when getting out: if they were arrested after a store robbery, they will try to steal from them again, to show dominance and out of vengeance.
Following the point above: they commit stupid crimes. Pickpocketing, robberies, shoplifting, drug trafficking and such, but they do these recklessly. Following the immediate need, they just act without thinking further: need money? Go to the metro and pickpocket someone. They also gloat about their achievements, and that's why they get caught soon most of the times.
To be a bit more in depth: sociopaths see people not as "objects", but as roles. Each friend has a role, and usually the roles are:
However, after the "crush" phase is over, and usually after hooking the victim to themselves (1-3 months), they start to not show "love" anymore, and instead become more and more controlling, showing off with jealousy. They'll also be more and more aggressive, initially only with words, yelling at the victim for any reason, breaking objects around, installing a new air of intimidation. After a few outbursts, they'll turn to outright violence to vent off and intimidate, especially if the victim tries to squirm off their control. Symbolic of this, they will almost always direct the fault to the victim, acting as the victim themselves, famous for this is the phrase "why you made me do this?" This is a red flag.
The victim rarely denounces this or goes away, for several reasons:
I'll talk about the average/High-functioning ones, because low-functioning sociopaths will just rob you up on sight.
So, how do you recognize one immediately? Well, immediately you can't, because some actions and gestures can be normal by themselves (not every warm guy happily speaking to you is a sociopath), but if you see several of these traits together, you probably have one in the spectrum:
You don't have shit until you go to a therapist and ask them to evaluate you about your doubts. They don't even need to use the Hare test: they just need a DSM-V in their bookshelf.
I can't diagnose you with it, but maybe I can show you why you don't have it.
1. Before even getting to 15, you showed at least three of these signs:
3. You must have been diagnosed with Conduct Disorder (CD) with genesis before 15.
4. The anti-social behavior isn't exclusive to deliriant or maniacal episodes (or any temporary mental states, really).
(DSM-V diagnosis btw)
...or more probably, you just have some avoidant personality traits.
Sure, the Dark Triad was a success, but let's be real: it may have taught you to notice "evil" personality traits in people. But it hardly covered what many of us, sadly, effectively experience.
So, if in pt1 we saw the Dark Triad of personality traits and how to recognize them, this time we'll take a look at the most common form of social evil, the real evil people, and how to escape them. That's right: if you end up in any kind of relationship with them, you just can't simply walk away, unlike the Dark Triad guys.
pt1:
(Analysis) Psychopaths, and how to recognize them! (The Dark Triad)
I know you did this once in your life: you searched up "psychopathy" or "what is psychopathy", only to find 10+ different definitions by 10+ different people claiming they were psychopaths themselves (diagnosed, always diagnosed). Where you ended up, eventually. So this time, I'll exactly...
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Introduction: "Evil"?
A few mins ago, I talked about the Dark Triad model, the clusters of Personalities inside them, how they thrive in society, and how to recognize one of them. However, there was something... missing.The Dark Triad is good when you have to study personalities that function in society. The average sub-clinical psychopath, as another pointed out, starts as "amoral", in the sense that "evil" isn't intrinsic to humanity, and that's right: we consider evil what goes against society: selfishness, greediness... Those in the Dark Triad can be damaging (mostly to individuals), but they usually work in society, because that's the best way to obtain what they want, and by doing so, they end up "helping it" (like the super ambitious but ruthless capitalist innovator, for example the already mentioned Steve Jobs). This just proves that, even the traits we as society detest, can be used for good.
...However.
There are some traits that are so evil, that even if they look like they function in society, they are always damaging it, and that's because their goals are incompatible with society's goals and laws, let alone they go along with others.
Did you notice what linked together all the personas inside the Dark Triad? A varying, always lower grade of empathy. This doesn't mean "evil", this means "indifference", even to the pain of others. What links these "real evil" personas together? They all have an active hate toward people and society.
The "Evil Duo" (not a model, it's a name of fantasy I use here to encapsulate them, because they are the two most common traits in criminals, all of them) traits are not only very real, but it's very much possible that some of you actually met one of them. These personality disturbs are Malignant Narcissism and Sociopaths. These two are not inside the DSM-V, and are in fact the specialty of criminologists and forensic psychologists. Given my expertise in exactly this field, I'll be detailed, this time, while keeping it narrative for you. But I'll talk about sociopathy only today, because if I'm being descriptive, writing both wouldn't be pleasurable to read.
1 - Sociopathy: origin and childhood
Origin
Before starting, just like last time, we have to understand ASPD, as per DSM-V.ASPD, Anti-Social Personality Disorder, is a personality disturb focused on the incapability of the subjects to follow social rules and rules in general, being very impulsive and having frequent rage outbursts. They also have a compromised (but still working) sense of empathy.
ASPD can be of two types: genetic/biological and environmental. When someone is born with biological ASPD, we refer to it as primary psychopathy, because the brain is severely affected. When we talk about environmental ASPD, we refer to a disturb born during childhood and caused by trauma, abuse, rape and such.
The environmental-acquired ASPD is a "spectrum", much like anything that is acquired during life experiences (and some genetic things, like Autism). This is why you can hear things like "he has some traits linked to X disturb". The more impulsive, socially inadapt and dangerous form is called Low-functioning sociopathy, while the "best" working, impulsive but adaptable, is called High-functioning sociopathy.
Given that high-functioning sociopaths are less than 1% of the total population, the same as primary psychopaths (commiting the 15% of all the crimes anyway), and given how at least 50% of all criminals are average/low-functioning sociopaths and account for 4% of world population, I'll focus on the "average" functioning ones, the most common in spectrum traits.
Childhood and example
What is the kind of abuse or trauma, to develop this condition?Well, you see: kids during their first 12 years, the pre-puberty age, are especially bonded toward their parents. I said this in the pedo post, so I'll keep it simple here: it's a biological, evolutionary thing. They inherently trust them as part of a bonding, growing process many animals share with us. Last time, I explained why raping them is a bad idea. But what if you just beat them up?
Let's suppose that the kid has a dysfunctional family: the dad is an alcoholic, the mother loves him but can't defend him or herself from the outburst of the father. How can he possibly trust his parents? And if he can't learn to trust inside his family, how can even learn to trust others outside?
But the concept is even worse than this: the trauma of being beaten, of being helpless as he beats his mother, it damages the brain. Remember the brain is still developing. The cognitive processes that should push him into trusting others get compromised, landing him directly into ASPD, that's why he can't grow to have real relationships and he ends up controlling his friends and partners. Maybe, the family is also poor, reaching barely the end of the month. This is already uncomfortable for everyone, because we feel something we can't control threatening us and those we care about. Now, imagine the kid in question, witnessing his father spending the few money the family has into alcohol, further ruining the family in front of his eyes, while already being alone inside it.
All the while, he grows to feel an anguished sense of helplessness. He WISHES to do something, to finally have the slightest control over his desperate situation, incapable to defending himself or even his mother, sometimes the only person he grows "fond" of (more of this later), because she's the only one who cares about him and makes him feel safe. So, he feels a lot of rage. He feels rage, because he's helpless. He wants to kill his father, but he can't, because he's scared of him. This rage is uncontrollable: he has outburst, damaging things around him, sometimes he ends up hurting animals. He feels good when he lets out the rage, he feels a bit more powerful, in control of his life, and if he hurts small animals, he associates hurting to the same satisfaction, the same good feeling of being in control.
If the kid grows up without the teachers noting anything (which is, sadly, very common), the kid will start to learn few things about "surviving". He learns, as soon as possible, to lie pathologically. The reasons are many, but the almost always present reason is that he has to lie to not anger his parents, because if he does something bad and they find out, he gets beaten.
Realizing that lying is actually the best weapon he has right now, he starts to lie over everything: after all, best case scenario, they get away with it, and worst case scenario, they get beaten just as if telling the truth. Telling lies and getting away with it though... it feels good, it makes him feel in control: finally, he can do something for himself.
As he grows up, he's by this time already violent and prone to outbursts. Given how it is his best way to vent out and assert control, empathy diminishes drastically, because at that point not only he's used to see pain himself and inflicted to others, but he knows that showing weakness is bad. Feeling weak is exactly how he never wants to feel anymore, he will always associate weakness, helplessness to those moments in family.
It goes without saying the he despises rules. In his family, following rules is... i mean, there are no rules: if the father is drunk, rules or not, if he's angry he's going to punish him. Rules are a lie, and more: breaking them, and do all he wants, it makes him feel good and in control. By this time, he probably also struggle to accomplish any "intellectual" activity, because he refuses to study and partake in school classes, and "develop" a similar condition to ADHD, because he can't really focus in anything.
2 - Interpersonal relationships
How do sociopaths fare in society, though?Work, Law, Friends, Love
Work
They won't to college, because they're literally unable to program further than a day in the future, given the constant necessity to feel appeased, unable to control their pleasure-seeking impulses.This makes them unsuitable for almost all jobs. They're are very erratic about working, changing jobs after jobs, because they usually get fired after violating the rules (smoking inside the building, being constantly late). They wouldn't be suitable even for self-managing jobs, because they can't manage himself, failing to pay rent in time for example. Given how they don't feel remorse nor shame, this is only natural. They end up asking money to someone (because the instantly spent the whole salary into something they want), or try to commit small thievery or pickpocketing, and since they program these things either, they usually ends up being denounced several times already.
Usually, if slightly functioning, they work in small commitment jobs, like retail, delivery, dish-washing and similar, though they don't last long there if Low-functioning. For this reason, they usually end up in a homelessness situation.
Law
Their impulsivity may lead to more and more reckless behaviors, including trying drugs and alcohol. If they get hooked to drugs, recovery is extremely rare. Drugs and such are the apex of what a sociopath can hope for: immediate satisfaction. Given how much it costs and what it does, it will just make them descending further into criminality.
They normally don't care about laws, simply doing what they feel like doing, or doing what they immediately need. Laws are limits, and if they're limited, they can't do what they want, feeling helpless. Given this hate toward laws, incapable of feeling guilt of any kind (they will always blame law or someone else), they are the most recidivists of all criminals, and use jail time as a pause. In prisons, they are violent and authoritarian, joining in gangs and trying to assert control over others. If jail time lasts longer, they don't feel threatened: not because they don't feel fear, but because, like I said, they can't manage their future, so life in and life out is the same to them. High functioning sociopaths would instead act nice and kind, to get out faster.
Ironically, they usually return to do the same exact thing as before, when getting out: if they were arrested after a store robbery, they will try to steal from them again, to show dominance and out of vengeance.
Following the point above: they commit stupid crimes. Pickpocketing, robberies, shoplifting, drug trafficking and such, but they do these recklessly. Following the immediate need, they just act without thinking further: need money? Go to the metro and pickpocket someone. They also gloat about their achievements, and that's why they get caught soon most of the times.
Friends
If he manages to make friends is complicated: depending on his spectrum, he can have an impaired empathy, or it can be completely absent, if low functioning. If he's impaired, he sees "friends" as resources: they guy that has the car, the guy that gives me the cigarette, the guy that I can call when I feel like I want company and no other time. He can, however, develop some attachment, but these relations are very controlling, appearing as the bully leader of the group, intimidating and covering others with this aggressivity. He won't hesitate to make others argue against one another, with the goal to appear as the only good and affable one. He won't really care if these "friends" disappear either, and actually, they usually are the first to disappear when he feels like (ghosting).To be a bit more in depth: sociopaths see people not as "objects", but as roles. Each friend has a role, and usually the roles are:
- Provider: gives them things. They usually grow genuinely fond of them, still in their distorted way to show empathy. If they stop providing though, friendship is over.
- Enabler: usually is the provider itself. They are the people who comfort, approve and help the sociopath. If not low-functioning, these are the people who the sociopath becomes emotionally dependant of, just like the mother of the example kid.
- Follower: self-explanatory. If they are useful, the sociopaths can be loyal when mutual beneficial.
- Entertainer: the one that's funny to have around, mostly all those outside the ones above.
Love
They can love, depending once more on the spectrum, but their love is extremely "impulsive." They will love bomb the person they like with extreme confidence, rescuing very charismatic. That's because they see the person as something to obtain, but also because they can actually feel the explosive power of having a crush, without any possible guilt or real empathy behind it. If the victim falls prey, they will act like a true prince, because they want to immediately establish a relationship, emotional dependence and trust.However, after the "crush" phase is over, and usually after hooking the victim to themselves (1-3 months), they start to not show "love" anymore, and instead become more and more controlling, showing off with jealousy. They'll also be more and more aggressive, initially only with words, yelling at the victim for any reason, breaking objects around, installing a new air of intimidation. After a few outbursts, they'll turn to outright violence to vent off and intimidate, especially if the victim tries to squirm off their control. Symbolic of this, they will almost always direct the fault to the victim, acting as the victim themselves, famous for this is the phrase "why you made me do this?" This is a red flag.
The victim rarely denounces this or goes away, for several reasons:
- The justice system, police included, don't do enough. Maybe they will denounce the sociopath or even arrest them, to free them after 2 days with a warning. I'm not joking, this is common, and this is the main reason why people don't denounce.
- The victim will actually think themselves the reason for their outburst. Given how good the sociopath is at manipulating, how good they were before, how much time you have grown together in these months, the victim will internalize the fault in themselves, submitting further, uselessly.
- The victim is intimidated. See point 1, and add that the sociopath won't refrain from threatening the victim's family.
3 - Can you actually do something?
Mindset
You have to understand three things:- The sociopaths, the average to high functioning ones, can feel empathy, but their empathy is not what we can understand. You don't have to imagine it as "feeling good around someone, sharing laughs", you have to imagine it as "someone is useful, I like him, yeah he's loyal, very nice." They aren't on the primary psychopaths level that they see you as something in front of them, but for them you are what you show them, and they like you if you show them what they want. You can't work with them, because sane people work in completely different levels from them. Sane people requires a feedback from what they give: if you show love to your boyfriend/girlfriend, you expect them to give back that love. Sociopaths don't do that, not after the crush phase. After the immediate love vanishes, they see you as "Enabler+Follower" role, and if you betray that expectancy, you don't love them anymore, you betray them.
- On the flip note, you also have to understand that sociopaths either don't understand it (low-functioning), or don't care and see it as their personality (average to high). To them, they are perfectly normal, because that's their reality. They notice that they don't feel anything when a friend cry in anguish, and think to themselves "well, I suppose I'm stronger." If asked about manipulation, they can be truthful or lie as usual, but when they say truth, they usually say something on the line of "yeah, I'm very good at making people do what I need. He always give me a cigarette in the end, doesn't he?" They sure as hell won't tell you they're manipulating you too, but for them, get what they want is just life, their lack of deep empathy is a personality trait. And given how they see people crying and be weak, why would they seek therapy? To get weaker?
- Sociopathy, like I said, works in a spectrum. Why I'm remembering you this once more? Do you remember the kid example I gave you? how he grew fond of his protective mother? You can have sociopaths that will very well protect their mother at absolute all costs, but that doesn't make them non-sociopaths. They'll probably see their mother as the role to absolute protect, and the protection is still something about possession. They can push this image of her mother into their partners, resulting extremely jealous and hyper protective, especially the average to low-functional sociopaths.
Recognizing one: Red Flags
Note: never, never think you are safe around one. Even if you yourself think that you're just using him behind his back, you don't know where this will land you.I'll talk about the average/High-functioning ones, because low-functioning sociopaths will just rob you up on sight.
So, how do you recognize one immediately? Well, immediately you can't, because some actions and gestures can be normal by themselves (not every warm guy happily speaking to you is a sociopath), but if you see several of these traits together, you probably have one in the spectrum:
- They are charming. You always read this, so let me clarify: charming means they look like someone very different from others by plain sight. In a party where everyone smile and laugh, he has a puffy chest out and a permanent smile.
- Love Bombing. It's their main approach. If they get to you and immediately compliments you heavily, that's a red flag. Bonus points If they call you "special/unique."
- They are persuasive. Not because they always are right or something, but because they have a fluid, always-ready kind of speech.
- They lie. You have to adopt a "never trust words" kind of approach, listening but not believing until real proof. If you notice an incongruence, they will redirect the discussion, correct themselves or even get pissed.
- When speaking of their stories, they sound always like the victims. When a normal guy has an arguing, he will think both about what the other said, and what he said, and see if he did something wrong, how could it be better, how can he be better. Sociopaths only think about the other's words. That's why they never take responsibilities: they can't.
- They don't take teasing well. They may smile back or fake appreciation, but if you point out something like a lie, they flip at you. Blame tripping follows soon after. If you challenge or criticize them, they will attack you back or play the victims.
- When they say "sorry", they always sound sarcastic or forced.
- They have heavy mood shifts, outburst are frequent.
- They gaslight you and try to make you dependant to them. Never give anyone power over something yours.
- Don't even THINK about changing them. You are not Christ, and they don't want to change.
- you don't have to necessarily suspect them to be sociopaths or anything, but if you *feel unease, don't force yourself.
- if you are certain they are sociopaths, don't point that out. If they are trying to make friends with you, nod at them, don't trust them. Once finished, ghost them, create respectful distance, an excuse or anything.
- if you are partner with one, and you have been gaslighted/lied to/disrespect in any way, break up immediately. Note that sociopaths will cheat you, after the crush phase. Loyalty is a "role stabilization", not a good-willed act, and if they think that cheating won't cause them any consequences (and they never think much about consequences anyway), they will cheat.
4 - "I'm a bit of a sociopath myself"
You don't have shit until you go to a therapist and ask them to evaluate you about your doubts. They don't even need to use the Hare test: they just need a DSM-V in their bookshelf.
I can't diagnose you with it, but maybe I can show you why you don't have it.
The minimum requirements
Alright, straight to the point. You have a degree of ASPD IF:1. Before even getting to 15, you showed at least three of these signs:
- incapable to follow any kind of social norms, getting yourself in trouble with law repeatedly.
- you lie pathologically, with false names, entire stories about your life...
- you are incapable to plan ahead or you are extremely impulsive and rash.
- you are very irritable and prone to real and violent outbursts.
- you put yourself and others in danger, continuously and without remorse.
- you are incapable to carry a single responsibility on your shoulders.
- you don't feel the slighter remorse toward no one at all.
3. You must have been diagnosed with Conduct Disorder (CD) with genesis before 15.
4. The anti-social behavior isn't exclusive to deliriant or maniacal episodes (or any temporary mental states, really).
(DSM-V diagnosis btw)
"But I still manipulate others, and I feel nothing"
If you didn't have these traits above, especially those before 15, but you still feel like you:- Can't really bond much or don't feel much emotions, and think throughall things with logic and rationality;
- Don't feel remorse in many circumstances;
- Couldn't care less about norms, especially social norms;
- Manipulate others when you need;
...or more probably, you just have some avoidant personality traits.
"But I had a difficult childhood!"
Go get diagnosed then, but if you actually had mild to serious childhood trauma, and you show the avoidant traits I said above, then you can have Alexithymia, a great difficulty to understand one own emotions. Ever felt like you should feel something, but all you can feel is an uncomfortable pressure in your chest? Or maybe ever felt "empty" in some situations, but then you cry when you see dogs getting hurt? That's mild Alexithymia, the real one numb you completely and constantly, and is a sign of depression. Another possibility is that you have SPD (schizoid personality disorder), but that's very rare, and you probably wouldn't be writing comments here."But I have ALL the traits of sociopathy except maybe the 15 years old thing! what am I then, huh?"
An idiot, or someone with Bipolar Personality Disorder characterized by anti-social phases during maniacal or depressive phases, so by DSM-V still not ASPDConclusion
I'm tired of writing things about criminology, next thing I'm going to do is a fucking videogames tier list. I also feel a bit ashamed about the last "self-effortpost report", I thought it was a silent notification to jannies, now I feel a NPD myself I'll let the audience and fate itself decide the destiny of my posts.Sources:
- M. Picozzi, A. Zappalà "Criminal Profiling"; (criminal profiling book, the same as the Dark Triad post. However, unlike the dark triad, this book explains extremely well sociopathy, since it's, you know... about profiling criminals.)
- University group studies on criminals' cases through local documentaries, especially on violent crimes (Giovanni Vincenti is a good example of High-functioning sociopath, while Moussa Sangare is the perfect low-functioning sociopath. Give them both a look!)
