Growing up with a psychopath

Myers wrote:

Hanc wrote:I have a question about it. Don't you feel a permanent frustration to everyone? How do you manage to live with this?

No. I only feel frustrated with people when they refuse to do what I want, or are too stupid to accomplish it.

Ok, thanks. I just feel permanent frustration. Inside myself, and now it also developed towards others.

I went to far with

"9 toed ferrit"

Didn't I?

Just thought I'd say, Autistic psychopathy had nothing to do with psychopathic personality. Hans Asperger definition meant Autistic personality disorder, with psychopathy meaning "personality disease". At the time Aspergers syndrome (as it's now known), was seen as a list of personality traits related to autism. It's now classed as a disability and seen as high functioning autism.

CarmenRose23 wrote:I went to far with

"9 toed ferrit"

Didn't I?

What do you mean by this?

morning star wrote:Just thought I'd say, Autistic psychopathy had nothing to do with psychopathic personality. Hans Asperger definition meant Autistic personality disorder, with psychopathy meaning "personality disease". At the time Aspergers syndrome (as it's now known), was seen as a list of personality traits related to autism. It's now classed as a disability and seen as high functioning autism.

Yes. Like i said too autists are sometimes referred to as people who project the outside world inwards upon him or herselves. In this i also meant it can be called a personality disease. But the similarity is, psychopathy is a personality disease too. It literally means sickness of the mind/soul (from latin "psycho" and "pathos").

Hanc wrote:It literally means sickness of the mind/soul (from latin "psycho" and "pathos").

"Psyche" means "soul" and "pathos" means "suffering". So suffering of the soul. I think it's greek.

Hanc wrote:

morning star wrote:Just thought I'd say, Autistic psychopathy had nothing to do with psychopathic personality. Hans Asperger definition meant Autistic personality disorder, with psychopathy meaning "personality disease". At the time Aspergers syndrome (as it's now known), was seen as a list of personality traits related to autism. It's now classed as a disability and seen as high functioning autism.

Yes. Like i said too autists are sometimes referred to as people who project the outside world inwards upon him or herselves. In this i also meant it can be called a personality disease. But the similarity is, psychopathy is a personality disease too. It literally means sickness of the mind/soul (from latin "psycho" and "pathos").

Yes, but Aspergers is no longer seen as a personality disorder.

Well, to go to the origonal topic of growing up with a psychopath, for the begining years my psychopathic father was present, but he died while i was young.

Even so, i feel it allows me to understand psychopaths much better. I can effectivley turn off my emotions if required, which wouldn't be possible unless i had been raised by someone completly void of emotion. Being able to do so allows me to do a multitude of things in relation to the psychopath. I can understand them, on a much deeper level than they are comfortable with, and i can play their games just as well as they can. But again, as i said in another thread, i've only ever dealt with psychopaths that are low IQ enough to be caught by our mediocre law enforcers.

I guess in short, it allows me to view the world through a very different light.

Myers wrote:

PQ wrote:Myers, if you're bored, study hierarchical temporal memory and superelongated neocortical columns for an understanding of certain aspects of autism. Then it will be conceivable to you how the two disorders could coexist.

I'm still not convinced. And until I see a documented and legitimate case, I refuse to believe such notion. Actually, I don't care either way, and I'll never be that bored.

Asperger's syndrome involves aberrations in the very building block of neocortical structure, which is responsible for higher order thought, whereas psychopathy is based entirely on aberrations pertaining to emotions, impulse control, attention, etc.

A psychopathic individual born early would show signs of asperger's, at least subthreshhold ones.

morning star wrote:

Hanc wrote:

morning star wrote:Just thought I'd say, Autistic psychopathy had nothing to do with psychopathic personality. Hans Asperger definition meant Autistic personality disorder, with psychopathy meaning "personality disease". At the time Aspergers syndrome (as it's now known), was seen as a list of personality traits related to autism. It's now classed as a disability and seen as high functioning autism.

Yes. Like i said too autists are sometimes referred to as people who project the outside world inwards upon him or herselves. In this i also meant it can be called a personality disease. But the similarity is, psychopathy is a personality disease too. It literally means sickness of the mind/soul (from latin "psycho" and "pathos").

Yes, but Aspergers is no longer seen as a personality disorder.

It's in the DSM-IV though, so it's classified as a mental disorder. Do you know the difference in that?

en_causa_sui wrote:

Hanc wrote:It literally means sickness of the mind/soul (from latin "psycho" and "pathos").

"Psyche" means "soul" and "pathos" means "suffering". So suffering of the soul. I think it's greek.

Sorry, my mistake then. So something broken in the soul then.