FrostBender wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
Successful antisocial types succeed because they're able to make people trust them regardless, not because they can't be trusted.
My goal is to convince others I’m a nice person and get them to like me.
The easiest way to do that is by genuinely possessing decency and demonstrating it.
FrostBender wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
Being bitter, resentful, unwilling to emotionally invest in others, only concerned about your own interests, etc is far more repellent than being autistic
Not really. Most autistics have no job and no partner. Sociopaths become CEOs. Serial killers get love letters in prison. So all that matters is appearing charming and cordial.
It’s eat or be eaten out there.
Most people with antisocial personality disorder don't get ahead in life.
You're misattributing antisocial traits as being the reason why some people become CEOs. They don't become CEOs because of their antisocial traits, they wind up there because of the other traits they possess (intelligence, ambition, ability to form the right connections, etc).
Folks who possess strong antisocial traits but who lack planning, delayed gratification, drive and the ability to make others feel emotional connectedness to them don't end up as CEOs. They end up at the very bottom of society.
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