Sociopath Community

you may just be the smartest woman on the planet.....

go forth and multiply and may your seeds combat ignorance.... or at the the very least do your best to infect others with your knowledge.

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"Not having power is just as fun and just as painful but at least the only one you're hurting is yourself."

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this.

by wilful

 

by tesseract

 If you're calling me a sociopath I'm not one, I have feelings and I'm not calculating and I don't enjoy hurting people.  I actually feel awful when I hurt someone even though I seem to do it a lot.  I can be provocative but it's for fun, not for power.

 says the robotic pic with a clever name, a clever topic, and inconsistent statements filled with proverbial vacuums to suck up knowledge she already has....

Well I've spent the past few days reading this site, and I do want advice on how to deal with this guy because at the moment I'm feeling clingy and insecure and want to be able to obsess over this relationship without texting him stupid things that will annoy him and scare him away.  And hearing things I've already heard is a confirmation so it's still helpful.

If you think I'm trolling you can because it doesn't matter but for the record I'm not. 

by Turncoat

"Not having power is just as fun and just as painful but at least the only one you're hurting is yourself."

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this.

I mean I'm not capable of emotional stability so while it is true that I get an intoxicated feeling from getting power, I don't use it well or wisely.  Not having power gives me a different feeling but with the same intensity, and when that turns into a trainwreck I can just pick myself up and move on.

You need to have some power, otherwise you'll just be the world's doormat.

Fearing the implications of said power sounds more like you don't like being held accountable for your actions, so you instead minimize your actions to only ones that affect yourself (save for responding to others, maybe). Not a fan of responsibility I take it, or is it simply that you feel you have too little self control?

 I have not and will not read this entire thread, but does this person know the difference between control and power, and additionally, the difference between control and power over oneself and over others?

I'm not really sure if she does or doesn't. She sounds confused.

Yeah and not a fan of guilt either.  I'm not the world's doormat, and I try not to be, but when it comes to relationships I guess I just like being manipulated.  And I know that if this guy changed into the perfect loving boyfriend I wouldn't be interested.  But it happens subconsciously, I realize it later but when it's happening it's just a whirlwind of emotion.

 http://outofthefog.net/CommonNonBehaviors/RescuerSyndrome.html

Imagine pairing one of those with a Munchausen Syndrome type.