I met a psychopath and whooo-boy was it interesting.

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My brother (deceased) was diagnosed with aspd. I've wrote about him before so it gets a bit boring but he was what would be described as a sociopath. He could never ever be confused as being autistic or aspergic in any was shape or form.

He was a complete people person. Charming, highly intelligent, could easily relate to anyone, used empathy, faked emotions and could cry on demand. He was a pathological liar, a thief, defintely not to be trusted. He was abusive to everyone who let him into their lives. He was a thrill seeker and a risk taker. He really didn't care about anyone apart from himself. His life was absolutely chaotic. He never did an honest day's work in his life and lived a parasitic lifestyle upto his death at 50 years old. God bless his him. He was my bro and I absolutely idolised him.

I mean I could go on, the list is endless with him and goes back to very early childhood.

Not complying to wearing a uniform does not make a person a psychopath.

True psychopaths very rarely 'feel' anything in a normal, human way, but can pefectly empathise and know exactly what other people are thinking & how to manipulate them.

Some people have psychopathic traits due to unresolved trauma that they haven't brought to their conscious mind & which they have not processed properly or at all.

You can usually tell whether someone is 'okay' mentally, by how consistent they are with what they say or how they behave.

If one minute they like you & the next they hate you, they might need help. That's not meant to be offensive - just saying.

People often act incongruently due to fear & a lack of a feeling of control. I have a PhD friend who is way, way smarter than me but I trust him because people who have high IQ's, usually have good intentions in general.

Psychopaths aren't conscientious people. They are impulsive & lack patience.

You can be impulsive & lack patience in certain scenarios, but if you have a history of continuously conscientous behaviour, then it is better than not being conscientious and also being impulsive & impatient.

I have been manipulated by loads of people before, as an Autistic individual. But I am learning to be less trusting now of people, because even if they say they won't share your information - they often do.

Psychopaths look like normal people.

Most psychopaths aren't serial killers like the movies and the news would like you to believe. In fact I read a few days ago at least 1 in 5 business people are psychopaths. They're good at getting and keeping jobs due to their superficial charm and manipulative behavior. I, on the other hand, am a sociopath. Most people think that's the same but it isn't. Psychopaths pretend to care or have emotions. I'll admit it when I couldn't care less and have had many violent outbursts. It was because of those outbursts when I was younger that I ended up in the hospital and was finally diagnosed for Asperger's around two weeks later. And as for a job, forget it.

Two things can be true at the same time. Geebus! This thread is not about how type-P looks, let's move along now.

I’ve been researching empathy as a goal to find myself. I’ve been reading Simon Baron-Cohen, The Science of Evil for layman research. A positive from the summer is learning firsthand about type-P and the similarities with aspie. I wanted to be positive in my label and by joining WP; the question came to mind, could I be or lean towards zero-neg empathy? I don’t fit into NT world unless I mask, mostly and I’m beginning to feel different from WP.

Zero-negative empathy is the Type-B, P, Ns. Borderlines, Psychopaths, Narcissists. Zero-positive empathy is aspie, two reasons for the difference; brain processing leads to talent and also leads to being a super moral.

Psychopath has no anxiety and no remorse, moral development is derailed due to childhood environment, so no internal pot of gold. I’m so thankful for two things, that internal pot of gold given to me as an infant by my caregivers. The second is the fact I have anxiety. Failure to learn from punishment is another traits that give me more confidence I’m more zero-pos than zero-neg. I can mask as a psychopath, so I’m a type-P with anxiety and super morals, maybe a touch of type-N. Make that three grateful things, no type-B. Bad news is I may never find myself this late in the game. Good news, there still is a chance of finding love.

I’ll tackle looking at B.A.P next since I’ve no plans to get a prof diagnosis. TBH, at this point, what difference does it make? I’m gonna be close no matter the diagnosis.

I'm not clear on the zero-pos / zero-neg. Is that really scientific fact. Or something Simon Baron-Cohen came up with. A.K.A Postulated.