ephemerella wrote:
COMPARING AUTISM WITH SOCIOPATHY
I spent a couple of years thinking about this because my corrupt perverted professor, Dennis Healy of the University of Maryland, College Park Math Department, was having an affair with a narcissistic sociopath who had multiple personality traits, a woman named Sabera Kazi. This woman was sleeping with at least 3 men in the building and had secret, compartmented affairs with them all. She was jealous of me, and singled me out and harassed and psychologically mistreated me for months while I complained to Dennis Healy about what his girlfriend was doing. Anyways, as part of her harassment (or should I say abusive codependent fixation), she would corner me and subject me to hours of pseudo-therapy sessions in which she unloaded self-obsessed monologues about her mental state and psychosexual history. After several months of this bizarre abuse, when no one else would believe me about what was going on, I had a meltdown (during the entire time I couldn't work and developed a stress disorder). It has taken me years to try to sort out the distressing horror show in my head that she filled me with, and I had to spend a lot of time studying sociopathy, etc.
Sociopaths who are Machiavellians are often also charismatics. They are able to craft personality traits and affect charm, using a toolkit of personality tools they carry around. They are quite glib and adaptable and many are slippery like chameleons, able to craft and project psychological abuses or leverage to use against others' vulnerabilities. They also have their own agendas, like private abuse drives and compulsions. Sociopathic bullies, for example, have been shown recently in MRI's to have areas of their brains light up when they observe someone suffering. So those bullies' brains are wired to take pleasure from the suffering of others. These traits are separate and apart from any anti-social traits.
Sociopaths and autistics share some traits. Those are described as a lack of empathy. In the area of social psychological development, sociopaths have an ability to interpret, understand and manipulate others via social interaction without identifying emotionally with others. In my opinion, it is the opposite with autistics. It is my experience that Asperger people are quite loving, sensitive and identify emotionally with others, but that they lack the ability to interpret, understand and manipuate others via social interaction. So the nature of the abnormal social empathy/emotional identification dysfunction, in sociopaths and Asperger people, is reversed, so to speak. In my opinion.
The above are just my own theories, which I am still working out, in an effort to troubleshoot and repair my own mind after being mistreated by a sociopathic narcissist bully and having her unload her mental problems into me. Unfortunately for me, my mind fixed on the mental problems and psychopathy she vented on me, as a "special interest" and I have been systemizing her social psychological disorders and social cognitive behaviors, which is kind of like a walk through a house of horrors.
Still trying to recover.
Wow. Your story is very awful! I hope you are feeling better now!!
I don't know why, but I ALWAYS attract people with mild sociopathic traits - they're often nice enough not to hurt others too much, but they usually lack empathy and I can see through their fakeness (as an aspie, it is easy to see when people are not being truthful for some reason, have you experienced that too?) ... One of them even thought that I was
like him - I think that AS traits may seem like sociopathy and perhaps these people think that I am like them too?
I do have empathy but I am often unable to show it - these people don't have empathy.
It's actually like sociopaths are the REVERSE of aspergers. They can interpret, manipulate, and pick up social cues very easily, but they do not identify with others on an empathic level. However an AS person cannot interpret social cues or manipulate people easily - but they actually DO identify with others - contrary to belief I think many AS have empathy - I know I do! But I do not have the full capacity to show it in an appropriate way, I certainly feel it and identify with others' pain though because it feels like MY pain - we pick up the moods of other people, whereas sociopaths are actually immune to it.
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03 Nov 2010, 5:31 am
