Aspergers Syndrome (HFA) and Socio/Psychopathy.

Hello.

Similarities in AsPD and AS:

Lack of empathy.
Potentially lacks remorse.
AS, and sociopaths usually don't enjoy social interaction.

People with AS, and AsPD can be very, very similar, although there are many differences. Aspies can be quiet psycho/sociopathic. This may not just be due to their inability to feel empathy on an average persons level, but people with AS could become very manipulative of other peoples emotions, and could be very antisocial behaviour wise.

I know people with Aspergers Syndrome who lack empathy on a huge scale, and I know others who can feel empathy closer to an average level. Usually children with AS usually feel empathy more in their childhood, but as they progress into adulthood, they start to lack empathy more. AsPD's may lack empathy simply because they don't care about other people, and they couldn't give a $#%^ about other peoples problems, but an aspie may lack empathy on the sense that they don't understand other people emotions so they find it hard to feel anything for other peoples problems. Many people may argue that both AS, and AsPD lack empathy in the same way, others may not.

People with Aspergers Syndrome can be very similar to AsPD, although I believe Aspergers IS NOT a disorder, and it is simply a different type of brain. So remember if any person comes on this forum saying they thing they might have AsPD, immediately suspect them of having Aspergers Syndrome. People with Aspergers Syndrome look for a place to fit in, and that aspie making the thread may also realise he/she lacks empathy, and is shallow, even when aspies are like that anyway.

Sociopaths do enjoy social interractions. Go fit in in the asperger forums.

AS lack remorse?

horizon987 wrote:I believe Aspergers IS NOT a disorder, and it is simply a different type of brain.

and I believe Aspd is not a disorder, it is simply a different type of personality...

crystal_richardson_ wrote:AS lack remorse?

horizon987 wrote:I believe Aspergers IS NOT a disorder, and it is simply a different type of brain.

I agree with your first comment, this guy's generally a f*ckwit.

However,

and I believe Aspd is not a disorder, it is simply a different type of personality...

This would depend on the type of AsPD, it's cause. Every person is just another personality, the difference is whether or not it's something that was created since birth (which can therefore be reversed) or whether it was in-built.

you think whether or not it's a disorder depends on whether it was inborn?

pretty sure society determines what is a disorder and what is not, based on things like personal distress/suffering, social/occupational impairment, etc..

crystal_richardson_ wrote:you think whether or not it's a disorder depends on whether it was inborn?

pretty sure society determines what is a disorder and what is not, based on things like personal distress/suffering, social/occupational impairment, etc..

In the context of his statement he was trying to differentiate between what would be classed an illness and what would be a condition. The use of the "disorder" in his statement was incorrect.

oh I see..

It was a guess. Answering it in any other context made no sense.

As someone with Asperger's (or HFA or whatever label it is), and as someone who knows a lot of Aspies like me, I can assure you that a lot of us do feel remorse and actually do have empathy (possibly even more than the "neurotypical"). We just don't express it "properly". And we don't go out of our way to express it. Of course, there are Aspies out there that are also sociopaths/psychopaths, but they're not the Aspie norm.

crystal_richardson_ wrote:AS lack remorse?

horizon987 wrote:I believe Aspergers IS NOT a disorder, and it is simply a different type of brain.

and I believe Aspd is not a disorder, it is simply a different type of personality...

Bullocks, disorder; A way of thinking in which there is a healthier way. AsPD, is clearly a disorder, its unhealthy, and is a mental illness. Empathy; A feeling of extreme remorse. So on some level people with Aspergers Syndrome lack remorse.