What if I was a sociopath?

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And I am reading clinical stuff (including stuff from studies in my ethnic background) in addition to self reports.

With self reports...I do understand that with ASPD a lot of people have a lot of hype around all of that.

(addressed to the OP)
What I don't understand is, why you take such a poor view of autistics.
I mean, you've painted us as either victims who get taken advantage of, or perpetrators of crimes who can get away with it because of the diagnosis.

(Sorry I can't help being curious and doing a bit of pop psychology - trying to judge whether you are autistic and angry about it, or whether you are correct about the misdiagnosis).

Also, what I will say as far as psych diagnoses go, Autism Spectrum Disorders have a highly positive reputation.

And that is wonderful, truly.

But I am kinda parceling out my thoughts on that because I have a diagnosis of ASD myself. And I have had experiences that were negative with other people with an ASD diagnosis.

Including school staff trying to pair me up as friends with one who I said many times I didn’t want to be friends with (I went along some times because it was easier). And then as I have mentioned, two sexual assaults (which I am not going into detail on because it upsets me to write out) with two males in their 20s who had the diagnosis of ASD.

If the way I deal with parceling all this out offends anyone then I am sorry to say I can’t help them. They need to figure out their own their feelings.

What I will say, is that I would also be careful on telling a survivor of sexual assault the right or wrong way to write or ask about their experiences. That is not going to go well in most cases.

And yes, this is kinda directed at MrsPeel but it can apply to anyone else.

If i were you, I would perhaps research psychologists in order to see if you can find one that is an expert in evaluating, diagnosing and treating people who are sociopaths / psychopaths.

I perhaps would start by researching by searching on amazon for books on sociopath-ism and psychos.
Ideally looking for the best clinical psychology books on the market, and look up the psychologists who authored the books, as they will likely take patients for evaluation but also ongoing treatment (if you want that).

That would nail the subject for keeps.