Is it possible for an aspie to be a sociopath too?

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Psychopaths and sociopaths lack affective empathy. This means that they cannot “feel” your pain. In contrast, people with Aspegerger’s syndrome lack cognitive empathy. This means that they have trouble to understand people’s intentions, but their emotional capacity to feel is intact.

The person in question would have to be high functioning, maybe so high functioning that it would look to the outside world like they don’t have asperger’s. They would have to have some form of high cognitive empathy which is not impossible, but its rare. They would have to be good with social skills or at least be good at faking. Some Asperger traits would be absent such as lack of social skills, affective empathy, social awkwardness, lack of theory of mind, guilt, remorse, and social anxiety. simply by necessity for sociopathy to be expressed, which isn’t impossible but rare. They would have to have the trauma that leads to sociopathy of course. They would also have to have the genes for Sociopathy.

This is why I think it's mutually exclusive or very rare.

If high functioning asperger’s is 2% of the population, and sociopathy is lets say 2% of the population, in order for it to be comorbid it would be about 0.04 percent likely. Not impossible but incredibly rare and improbable.