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...
Oh wow thanks for the response! Also sorry I'm so late in replying as well, long story.
In terms of your NPD thing about having an unusually strong reaction to others attention- how might you explain the difference between overt and covert narcisissm through this? Its always seemed to me like narcasism is surely a reaction to or coping mechanism that arises from persistent insecurity early in development, or something like that. But is there not actually good evidence for this? I guess maybe the early-life insecurity in general and the narcisissm more spec... (read more)