Why do people with aspergers like psychopaths?

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This is a generalization. Not everyone on the spectrum has a passion for psychopaths.

I don't know why anyone else would defend psychopaths, and I don't see evidence that their defense would be a particular trend among people with AS. For myself, I have on occasion questioned representations of psychopaths as purely evil and I certainly oppose harming, sterilizing or confining any person based purely on their neurological characteristics. I wrote the following in response to a similar discussion on a previous occasion, and incidentally came across it when I was organizing my notes today:

I find issues such as psychopathy and other mental perversions within the human condition to be worthy of some interest, however I don't find the suffering they cause funny at all, and it would certainly be a wild leap of the imagination to say one could possibly ''like'' them; as in like what they are, and how they behave.

Who likes psychopaths?? Really, they can be quiet dangerous to other people and to society. I doubt that many people would defend them, Aspies or not.

@Silky. Thank you, dear. You're too kind.

when i was about 9, i was inspected for signs of psychopathy due to an alarm raised by a teacher. i was laying on my belly playing with my cars, and a teacher who was worried that i never joined in was watching me from a window (unbeknownst to me).
as it happened, a girl fell out of a tree from quite a significant height and hit the ground hard, and apparently i glanced up from my toys for about 1 second, and i immediately returned my attention to my "virtual" world.

3 years later, when i was a patient in an adolescent psychiatric unit, my psychiatrist was a very nice lady that enjoyed talking to me for far longer than my allocated hour every day, and i asked her about the reasons that could contribute to anyone thinking i may be psychopathic (pertinent to the tests 3 years prior), and she gave me a good description of psychopathy. i should also say that she used some freudian terminology in her description (because i had read and learned freudian principles, and she used my familiarity with those principles in order to convey a well crafted impression of what a psychopath is (which i remember precisely)).

a psychopath is someone who's actions are driven by impulses that contain no regard to peripheral consequences. their only aim is to satisfy their desires, and there is no conscientiousness as to the effect that their actions may have upon others.

psychopaths do not have a fundamental reverence for the fact that other people have an equally capacious consciousness as they themselves do.

they do not ascribe a value to other lives that is not merely quantitative with respect to "usefulness".

psychopaths see life as a game and the living things in it as just objects that behave in an inevitable way.
-------------------end of her (much abbreviated) explanation.

most psychopaths do not execute their heinous ideas to acquire what they want because they are afraid of the law. instead, they trample their way to the top in a borderline legal way, and they always have a "rational" explanation for "why they are not responsible" for the sadness of many people that have been left destitute in their wakes.

if one is psychopathic and is also sadistic, then that is a recipe for a disastrous personality.
a sadistic psychopath is something that everyone has to work together to catch and to fence off from the rest of the world because people who get pleasure (akin to orgasmic pleasure) from seeing the pain they inflict on their slowly tortured innocent victims almost makes me believe that "hell" does exist, because surely they are the devils representatives.

so to answer your question, i am not an AS person who has any respect for what i understand psychopaths to be. i am however, an AS person.

Psychopaths/sociopaths don't know how to visualize things from another person's perspective or viewpoint.

I can recommend the following:

The perspective of an *actual* psychopath (assuming that everything isn't made up):
http://www.sociopathworld.com/

Oh, and *this* (specific to Asperger's):
http://www.sociopathworld.com/2008/09/a ... eeper.html

... Anyone still liking psychopaths ?

The current scientific evidence of psychopathy (some idiot on Amazon gave it a one star rating because he/she couldn't understand the statistics. Go figure .)
http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Psychopa ... 1593855915

I've found psychologists tend to be less blaming of psychopaths than most people. Maybe your friend's just read up on psychology?

Psychopathy is a neurological disorder, in which the person is incapable of feeling certain emotions that are important for morality. As a result, the whole concept of right versus wrong doesn't make sense to them. So it seems kind of cruel to punish them for something they don't understand.

Nevertheless, I do approve of locking up psychopaths to prevent harm to others.

I generally feel the same way towards psychopaths as I do towards most people, Indifferent.