by meanwhile » Wed Aug 09, 2017 8:27 pm
So I was looking for a boring introductions thread like some forums have but I didn't see anything. I didn't want to drop in on any already running conversations, but this one seemed uninvolved enough to get my post count to 1. I've read some of the sniping on here between the active members and it's good stuff, really funny.
ASPD for me has been something I actually avoided mentally as a subject for years because I was afraid it was true. It was only recently in the latter half of my 20s that I started doing more reading and self-reflection through the lens of ASPD. The conduct disorder as a child/teen, heroin addiction, over a dozen arrests in an eight year span, three visits to the county jail, several ruined relationships - I could be more specific, but it's not necessary.
Anyway, that's what ASPD has been like for me. An unavoidable urge toward manipulating and subverting any system that's put in front of me. It is lying when I don't need to, continuing to put my freedom and safety in jeopardy even though that isn't what I want for myself. It's starting fights in my relationships only to pull out and be a blank wall while the girl cries, yells, and begs for contrition. Over all none of it bothers me, but continuing life on the trajectory I have been is going to land me in prison, with no one left on the outside and nothing to even feign concern for when I get out. Either that or it's death at the end of a relapse. I am currently laid up after secretly shooting a fentanyl analogue for a few weeks in spite of the program I was almost done with. It is perpetually seeking adoration solely for the pleasure of exerting magnetism over another person.
That's not really a checklist or anything, I realize, but it is what it's like.