Blog post comparing Aspergers and Psychopathy

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I found the statement that Aspies and Psychopaths are the same highly disturbing. It seems as if the person who made that statement does not know very much about either. For starters, psychopaths would not start a discussion forum to help each other. There is a big difference between having trouble empathizing with the world around you because most of the people in it are not like you and possessing no empathy whatsoever. Another big difference is that psychopaths are masters at reading people and manipulating them for their own ends. I on the other hand crash through social situations, often times in an attempt to help people or improve a situation. The irony is that when I do this it is usually the narcissist/psychopath who targets me for openly contradicting their psychopathic fiction and obstructing their self-centered goals. Not only are Aspies the polar opposite of psychopaths in many respects, psychopaths are usually the social predators who decide to hunt us down. They like to do this because because by picking on the weak it shows their prowess and strength to the group (who unfortunately are usually impressed). Another reason they do this is because of our inability to feed their enormous egos. I have been beaten and bullied many time in my life due to autism. A great many of those bullies were probably narcissists or psychopaths. If you have an ASD I highly recommend that you study and learn to identify psychopathy. It is very important to your survival! Some good books are "Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths go to Work" and "Without Conscious".

That's pretty damn mean.

More proof that the Internet can make you stupid if you let it.

It made me think of this blog piece by StrangerinGodzone:

http://strangeringodzone.blogspot.co.nz ... te-us.html

You know who wrote that? NOT a psychology major. There isn't an autism epidemic. There's an ignorance epidemic.

This is why I hate the Internet they are ignorant buffoons!

Sociopaths dissemble and build narratives.

I break things down and build systems.

Quirkiness, parallel construction. Tomaytoe, tomahtoe.

There's an abstract way of looking at this.

Don't let such people bother you too much.

Even if you were to make this one person see the light, the next one in line is already ready to take her place and the row is extremely long.

You can't teach someone who doesn't even want to learn.

I do agree with the mind blindness part, all of which applies to me and in turn makes it near impossible to apply for jobs

This appears to me to be a very garden variety low-functioning borderline/narcissist with persecutory fanatasies and access to the internet. I call it fantasies as opposed to delusions because they really do enjoy this joan-of-arc esque roleplay.


High functioning aspies are very often attractive as partners for low-functioning, romantically frustrated narcissists or borderlines with narcissistic traits who are themselves not socially succesful and appear harmless or even pathetic to others but will be domineering and brutal towards victims who are weaker than them. This works with pathologically dependent people because they get something they want out the relationship, but no one else. Ironically they are also prime targets for exploitation by more intelligent, high-functioning narcissists/sociopaths because their emotional structure is so primitive and easy to manipulate.

At the end of the day, armchair pyscology through the internet based on one person is pointless, which is why this woman's blog post is pointless, and my armchair diagnosis is probably wrong. But I pretty much think it isn't, I have so much life experience with narcissists, and this is kind of hallmark narcisisstic "woe-is-me" thinking.

What really strikes me about the article is how ABSOLUTE everything is. There's zero nuance. It's not enough for her to say stay away from aspies because they are generally or more likely to have such and such issues, it's "no one can be happy with these people. NO ONE. WHATSOEVER".

If she were a bit more nuanced, I think the article might bother me more - I've read plenty of stuff out there that tries to display sympathy and compassion for ASD folks but the ultimate conclusion is condescending and negative, which could convince more people; there's enough awareness of ASD these days that plenty of people, I should think, would read her article and be like, geez, aspies I know or are in a relationship aren't like that.

There's a part of me that pities her. She's just SO extremely wrong that I can't take her seriously - there's so much out there that flat out contradicts her, including my own experiences with relationships.

If someone had a bad experience with black people, and brought up the fact that black people are more likely to commit crime, and then concluded that black people are intrinsically criminals and should be avoided, I'd be pretty bothered by the persons logic and attitude, but I'd also realize that if they've been confronted about it, thought about it, did research on it, looked at the facts, and STILL believe this, they are not worth debating - they've already made up their minds. "Cast not your pearls before swine".

Not that race is a direct correlation, since we are talking about certain behavioral differences here - the analogy I'm making is is someone being utterly wrong, and generalizing based on individual cases, bad reasoning, and did I mention, being utterly wrong?

This girl's the one with issues. Yeah, she's dealt with other people with serious issues, but most people who have one bad experience don't go on to make such extreme claims.