People telling you you're a sociopath?

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I never believed this estimation and I advice you not to do it either. It's exaggerated. Psychopaths have no remorse AT ALL and this is the only thing which is for sure about them. I knew many people with negative personality features but it was just that - just negative personality features (though indeed shared with socios), the owners of which are commonly known under the names of jerks and as*holes. I truly doubt I ever knew a REAL psychopath.

read The Sociopath Next Door, and you can see where the estimate came from. it was based on actual research, not just random opinion.

lack of remorse is quite common in western society - i'd say 1 in 25 is about right... one per classroom. they try to fake remorse but the truth sneaks out. one important point of this book is that the sociopath is rarely ultimately successful - quite a lot of the sociopaths end up broke, lonely and bitter.

marshall, that made a great deal of understanding as, I'm not some sort of tyrant even if I do have insecurities that itself does not make someone bad.Anyways, thanks...

I feel like im half AS half psychopath.

Me too. Sometimes.

No, but I was called a narcissist by a narcissist who was trying to use me for "supply" once.

It sounds to me like your friend was just being ignorant: that behavior (not expressing emotion) is typical for autistic people and not for sociopaths, who know the appropriate reaction and can act it out whether they feel that way or not. We don't necessarily feel the "expected" emotion, and even if we do, likely won't express it in the expected way. Our feelings are more difficult to fit into some word or conventional expression of emotion because they aren't so much shaped by these things. I suspect, for NTs, the expected emotion and the outer expression counts more than, or even shapes, what they actually feel.