I'm a 50 year old attorney who was put in a psyche ward for suicide attempt and learned there that I'm borderline and bipolar. I'll look him up sometime. Still, I only feel real human concern for the people [or fiction characters] I know and love.Even when it comes to people I love, I'm useless when they're hurt on an emotional level. Privacy Policy. It'd be fun to "see". We have every reason to not be honest outside of the Internet, and we're here at this very site because here we have no reason to lie! They cannot feel genuine love, empathy, or remorse. Too vague.Nowadays I find myself wanting real dates. But this experience really bridged the intellectual gap between normal and crazy for me. )I get the feeling a few people here with overactive imaginations might be getting too hung up on the sobering realization that they might be capable of killing. Just because you have no empathy, feel no remorse, don't really have feelings, etc, doesn't mean you should go around effing people over.Just get over yourselves already! in fact due to being the new kid, constantly, I had to acquire this ability or forever be an, outcast. They don't need to worry about those on the outside, and within banking, the behavior that led to the meltdown was somewhere between normal and virtuous, so no need to feel bad. Every elected official, though, relies on connections reaching beyond the political bubble, in the form of voters. He also claimed 2.99 for garbage bags. Sex is one example of frequency dependence: if males were more common than females, they would be less likely to find a mate, so it would pay to have female offspring, pushing the sex ratio back toward equality. Narcissists share a complete lack of conscience (genuine love, empathy, remorse, etc.) I can detect a sociopath and pretend to go along with their fake self believing attitude, but really it's not so bad when your steps ahead of them without them knowing and easily turn the tables on them. It's also a question about social inheritance.Yet there's truth to what you claim. Live forever? I have a true love of two living things in this world that I know personally. I'm like an alien to him! I act polite and to the point with teachers and people over my age, but I can hardly speak to other people; I can't speak if I don't have anything to say, and it makes me seem very shy (which I am sometimes, but who isnt). Firstly because the person you quoted contradicted themselves in the same comment and said they were creative, adn secondly, I don't think sociopathic traits have anything to do with a lack of creativity. But, have I got it the wrong way around? If you can stick to those rules you'll do much better in all but the shortest of runs. His reputation is equal to his ability to generate income. I'm obviously pretty terrible at it because my family can tell something is wrong when I am around them so I have been trying to avoid contact with them, which in turn causes them to worry about me. Everybody else, inside they were like me, they thought like me, internally we were all entirely selfish, nobody really had "empathy" they just acted as if they did. Hell no, and neither is anyone else with remotely similar experiences to my own. And thanks! I can now also spot a sociopath a mile away!I think in these comments there are 2 categories of people: people who are feeling "disconnected" from others and those who are just self-centered and pure evil.Now all of you know right from wrong. Its about having fun and trying to win what ever game you think of that is how i live everyday. ;). I was only going by skin colour (google images), not ethnicity (wikipedia). I been trying to change for years. I have a son who I know I love and would never hurt him. Now compare it to Inception. This post is amusing. Smarter narcissists will overtly abuse only a very small number of people, so they can reference the admiration of others as proof of their virtue and evidence that the victim(s) must be crazy.In short, narcissists are sociopaths who are hellbent on a very specific, superificial, and egotistic agenda. You are suffering from shit in your head, lots of it, its coming out of your ears. Most if not all people have a desire to be good (although it might be a small or twisted desire). Best Answer Copy No they don't and Sociopaths have a complex personality disorder. Making connections, on the other hand, forces people to confront the consequences of their actions. It just takes a lot more for me to get worked up, so I'm baffled when someone else starts up the waterworks in response to much less. I thought I was shy and would grow out of it, but not so. Creativity is growth on the world's part by individual's branching off of what the world already has in it to work with, including resources such as people. I don't really get the concept of "missing someone" - even my husband/children; I sometimes think "I wish they were here to share this moment", just because I think they would enjoy it too, but I'll quite happily spend weeks away from them). I still want them back, but I'm not depressed about them being gone and want more to fill their places.Something that's directly contradictory would be that I can hardly bring myself to kill an ant, and once the initial act is done I feel really, horribly guilty, and then I go back to normal; but when I think about it I feel guilty. They might even end up gaslighting you and blaming you for their behaviour. The scorpion replied that he would not, as that would cause both their deaths. Yes, and very selfish and self centered, and find I must consciously do things against my gut in order to keep the relationships I have operating. I clearly see how she was intentionally taking advantage of my trust and empathy, at times sympathy for her and I distinctly felt mind raped. What you see as lonely, is truly FREEDOM. They cannot feel genuine love, empathy, or remorse. They are known to be charming, manipulative and know exactly what to say to make people like them. I fear for people I love and for animals and innocent people. This seems ideal for life in the 21st century. Not impossible, but highly improbable.I'd say innovation on existing design with a level of superb elegance is where you often find genius lurking. I'm not an introvert, either; I find social situations stimulating, and I enjoy chatting to people and finding out things about them (although I'm interested in different kinds of things about them than most seem to be). The sociopaths posting on here have no reason at all to be honest with you. I agree with that too. The victim is often shocked and upset that they had not seen it before and a logical step is to ask themselves if their abuser knows what is going on. Attempting to control others with threats or aggression. Final Thoughts Differences between Psychopaths and Sociopaths Psychopaths Cold and calculating Calm and measured under pressure Are able to maintain the pretence of a normal, working life Can have relationships, but they are fake and meaningless Manipulative and charming Lack of empathy or remorse Do not understand other people's distress One of the tell-tale signs of a sociopath is the lack of empathy. If you enjoy harming animals or people, you're probably a sociopath, and not one of the benign types.3.) So I have two answers in a sense. "Was that meant to be meta humor? I'll be horrified (and I will eventually mourn their death on my own time), but my mind wanders too much to avoid absurd distractions like that. Understanding it could reduce crime, improve ethical behavior and rein in Wall Street excesses, Editor's note: The following is an excerpt adapted from the book, People Will Talk: The Surprising Science of Reputation, by John Whitfield (Wiley, 2011). I recently realized that I grew up with a mother who is a sociopath. It was that reputations were not at risk. Risk-taking. My biggest question is whether narcissists are so delusional that they convince themselves of their own lies (at least in the moment), but I don't know if that will ever go definitively answered. "Because I am a scorpion," the scorpion replied, and this explained everything. They are not emotionally stable and tend to lie at the drop of the hat. The other day one of my parents died and I have never had to mimic sorrow before. I wouldn't worry about that, though; it's just a blog. Why would you see yourself as more important, as something that you want to please and satisfy. To me the rewards would be as fake as the deceptions I needed to use to fool people. People like to argue that there isn't anything original, and that all thoughts are recycled, or taking it even further, that we share a collective conscious.I'm of the opinion that our creativity is limited by our perception; simply put, even "original" ideas have some basis in something we've already consumed either directly or via periphery. I've covered multiple things.You must have thought that was so clever, too. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Especially the thing about not missing my kids - some people seem to equate not missing your children with not loving them. This labelling of people is all wrong. Some of the people I know who believe themselves to be very empathic are also the least accurate judges of other people, and are the most clingy.Sorry, that's a long comment. ;) The danger is that unlike most people, sociopaths have no real emotional need or drive to pursue these values for other people's sakes, which is why most are manipulative, backstabbing, supremely selfish wraiths devoid of anything resembling a human soul.That's not to say sociopaths are bound to behave amorally. They know what they are doing to others, but once more, as long as they get what they want, it doesn't bother them. I'd care about this if i want something out of the deal in the end. Yay!! But it's not till I replay my life do I realize that I'm different.Because I just don't care what I do to you, as long as it gets done and I'm content. I was just considering good and bad, and the desire to be either good or bad. If folk choose the dark side to channel their fears and anger into the world to make themselves feel better, then its up to them. Coming to terms with the idea that the partner they love may be abusing them is a major challenge to a person's reality. Feels like I'm starting relationships dishonestly, tryingto fill gaps, rather than caring about people. God I loathe you people, you slow things down, you don't know your ass from your elbow generally speaking, you're a monkey wrench in the works of life and it makes me crazy that you're allowed to walk the planet. I do enjoy talking to people, it's just the idea that I'd sit around thinking about calling someone to chat, and that I would assume that the other person would want to chat too, that I don't get). Maybe u "normal" peeps just fear us I also don't know cuz I'm not normal either . 11 Signs of Sociopathy - Cleveland Clinic They need to feel like a hero most of the time and a victim when they're "wronged" (generally when others stand up for themselves after having enough of their abuse). If you had no emotion, why the hell would getting what you want or fulfilling an urge make you happy.Being empathetic is just common sense. Unless of course what was meant here was that they believe everybody else around them has exactly the same kind of thinking/motives they do. In fact the less of you idiots there are around me, the happier I am. Are you that naive. If you can watch Hostel and all of the Saw movies in a row without wincing, you might be a sociopath.2.) Psychological experiments suggest that pretty much everyone, psychopaths aside, cares about what others think of them. That bond between another human.

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