Lunella wrote:
ASPD is basically the entire thing yeah, cause loads of stuff fall under this. Psychopathy is like the umbrella term of the bad messed up ones from what I understand.
Also I read a study a while ago saying people with ASPD are not born like that it is a learned behaviour or something traumatic happened to them as a child because no child is born basically evil right away, something has to happen for that to be a thing.
Like with autism that's definitely a genetic thing, ASPD I think falls more under the "hit head as kid, kid randomly starts killing birds then people" lol. In all seriousness I think it's more with people who have been sexually abused in adolescence or people with parents that beat them/mentally torture them so they end up all kinds of messed up in adult life.
I've always found it really interesting with these people because the actual scary thing is they are ridiculously common. I've had narcissist/sociopath bosses, colleagues, parents, friends, exes etc. They come in all shapes and sizes.
I read recently that:
- Abuse when young, can alter the neurotransmitters in some way.
- Psychopathy flourishes in harsher conditions.
- It is part of the evolutionary process.
- Psychopathy isn't definitive. There are different theories.