Sociopathy

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Since when do aspie's love rules? Please be careful about posting inaccurate information here.

But your options so far as how to study sociopaths are limited. There are criminals, CEOs, and lawyers/politicians. (I know.. that was redundant.) But those later groups wouldn't actually have a diagnosis. Breaking the law is part of the diagnostic criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder. As far as I know, there are just two groups of sociopaths.. the criminals, and those who haven't been caught. But those who haven't been caught are still criminals. But you can't study them, because they haven't been caught.

There's a third group--those who have logically deduced that they will have more satisfaction out of life if they follow the law in most instances. This is actually the desirable end-point for therapy with antisocial personality--not somehow magically acquiring a conscience, but becoming able to consider consequences and follow social rules because, in the end, it benefits you more than not doing it.

a lot of the time, they are studied by screening for them when doing personality research - often done on undergraduates (and under DSM-IV TR, you do not have to be a criminal to have ASPD - it is important to distinguish clinical from legal terminology.) Back in grad school, we used to have a joke that the most common research subjects were rats, pigeons, and college sophmores. LOL at the redundancy:)

Are you like this?

http://www.sociopathworld.com/2009/03/i ... tions.html

Where did you get this from?

Obsessive routines and rituals are a part of the diagnostic criteria. Rules aren't only the things authorities make up, aspies make rules for themselves by doing things a certain way over and over again. Sociopaths are impulsive, they don't need the security that routines and rituals bring.

Creating routines and rituals is not the same as loving rules. Aspie's don't understand rules that the rest of society has adapted to. (especially social rules)

I've been reading about sociopathy and it seems like an opposite disorder of asperger's. But it doesn't seem to be as well studied at all, I mean in normal, everyday people, not criminals. There's tons of info on asperger's out there but not on sociopaths, only anecdotal accounts by laypeople or books about criminals. There's not much info on physical differences, brainwaves and the sort. Anyways, it does seem like opposite. Aspies are easily overstimulated, sociopaths are bored all the time. Aspies have a lot of sympathy, sociopaths none. Aspies have no theory of mind, sociopaths can tell what people are feeling better than normal people. Aspies tend to love rules, sociopaths not. Aspies tend to be anxious, sociopaths are fearless. Etc.
I met someone actually that I'm pretty sure is sociopathic. It's hard to explain, but they were very charming, lived off of other people, academically a failure even though of normal intelligence, constant partying. The eye contact was very intense and attentive. I remember thinking I've never had anyone look into my eyes that intensely before.
What do you guys think? Have you ever met anyone like this?