Do we get mistaken for psychopaths??

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Any group of people will invariably be obnoxious as it's human nature to strive for status and resources. You need a thick skin to deal with these types of people and people with Aspergers often do not have this, possibly as it needs to be built up via ongoing socialising practice, which many of us don't get as we are usually socially excluded.

I think if a person is both very sensitive and analytical they will analyse the group dynamics and see how unpleasant it all is. Stupid people just go with the flow and are either none the wiser or immune to it all.

Yes. I don't know why. Maybe because people don't understand the difference. We have a whole array of emotions, we just can't express them properly. We like people. We just don't know what to do with them. A psychopath has no conscience. They use people for their own personal gain. Some of us aspies can't make eye contact but psycho make very direct eye contact - some scare the mess out of you!

I wish.


But I cant do psychopathy to save my life.

Folks who make the confusion do so from reading books and magazine articles about autism, and not from encountering actual autistics/aspies.

And the reason is that they get hung up on the "lack of empathy" thing, and get "empathy" confused with "sympathy".

Empathy is theory of mind. Sympathy is concern/caring.

ASD folks have caring, but don't have theory of mind. Socipaths/psychopaths (basically the same thing) are the exact opposite, and survive by exploiting their accurate TOM, but have no concern for their victims.

NTs who actually encounter actual ASD folks could never confuse an autistic with a psychopath.

Some friends make jokes about me being a psychopath, and how I will end up as a serial killer. They also joke there’s sometimes a “psycho look” to my eyes when I look at them.