Wondering how you'd characterise someone with characteristics more like me.
I've been described as sociopath-like by my partner, a close friend and a psychiatrist. I have essentially no capacity for empathic concern or guilt (although this is confounded by being highly alexithymic and autistic) - even at times when I've intentionally done very obviously bad and harmful things that seriously distress loved ones. I don't have the instinctive sense of taboo / repulsion that seems to come naturally to most people and have socially gotten in trouble for this (ta... (read more)
Wondering how you'd characterise someone with characteristics more like me.
I've been described as sociopath-like by my partner, a close friend and a psychiatrist. I have essentially no capacity for empathic concern or guilt (although this is confounded by being highly alexithymic and autistic) - even at times when I've intentionally done very obviously bad and harmful things that seriously distress loved ones. I don't have the instinctive sense of taboo / repulsion that seems to come naturally to most people and have socially gotten in trouble for this (ta... (read more)