Antisocial Personality Disorder is the official term for Psychopaths. Throughout the times, psychiatrists wrestle with using terminology to avoid the problem of labeling people. They first used the term “psychopath,” because this is a mind that is the disease. A psychopath has a sentience that is a plague to others. However, thanks to Hollywood, it became a label. So they created, “Sociopath.” That emphasizes the social nature. They’re a pathology in the social sense. It’s just like a psychopath (it’s not defined as different even). It’s just a word that words to explain the disease and it’s different from “psychopath.”
Finally, Antisocial Personality Disorder is the official term for it all. It’s not even a label for a person. It’s a label for a disease so it’s impossible to turn into a label.
It mistakenly implies that the person is a jerk. Well, he is a jerk, but he’s manipulative and affable. He tries to convince you your his friend and you should trust him. He uses all sorts of dirty tricks to get you to distrust everybody else, and to seek his approval of things. He loves that because he love to be worshiped for what he thinks he is. Having entire freedom from shame and guilt he can torture a child and the screams will not bother him, rather delight him and make him feel powerful. He’s not going to feel ashamed of himself or wonder what kind of person he is. He’ll never have a BSOD or a “What did I do,” moment. He’s entirely free of that.
The only thing he fears as seeing himself as evil. If you play your cards just right, you’ll become the avatar of his fear. If he proves to you he’s just simply evil and you call him right then, then he has to accept the reality that you have definite proof that he’s evil. He might disagree with it but he can’t take away the reality that you have excellent reason to judge him so. He’s gambling too much. He thinks himself an immortal god. Perfect and entitled he is. To prove this wrong would be a massive psychological BSOD for him. He’d feel it would destroy him (though it would really recreate him). I once became an avatar for this psychopath woman. She’s afraid of me. She hates looking at me. I’m the mirror that says, “you’re ugly.” She hates that more than anything. It’s because she overplayed her hand and I called her out on it. I have definite proof she’s evil and I didn’t lie to her about who she is. I’m her worst nightmare.
I don’t recommend playing with psychopaths. They’re not easily controlled. They’re dangerous. People follow them blindly. They become dangerous.
People do think “antisocial” means a person who doesn’t socialize, doesn’t feel like it at that time, or a person who doesn’t play nicely with others, maybe a hermit. These are just a misappropriation. Antisocial behavior is charming and uplifting. It’s trying to get you to trust and to depend on that person for your psychological needs. That’s how you get used.
Antisocial is not a person being jerk. It’s scheming and charming a person into your trap.
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