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I wouldn't seek any cure because I've been this way my entire life. How I am is normal to me.

While I am content for the most part, I wouldn't say that I am entirely content the way I am. I do wish sometimes that I didn't experience boredom as often as I do and I wish that I was a little more higher-functioning than I currently am behavior-wise. With that said though, I like giving into temptation at times. At other times though I wish I had more self-control and was a little less impulsive.

I wish that I was a little more higher-functioning ...  I wish I had more self-control and was a little less impulsive.

Yeah same here I'm working on a plan to become a higher-functioning person (as I once was) but it's a hard road.

As for the impulsivity I had to go see a psychiatrist for that one because it endangered my ability to keep my mask on in public but it's once again under control.

As for boredom I hate that part too even though I have specific center of interests that I use to diversify my activities but sometimes I have a hard time keeping a schedule for the same reason I was never able to hold a job for long:boredom (yep it's a paradox).

by DarkAges

1.In other words would you seek a 'cure' if one existed?

2.Or are you content just the way you are?

Personally I'm comfortable with who I am and I even view it as an advantage. I'm not talking about that 'sociopaths are the pinnacle of human evolution' bullshit but there are some advantages at lacking empathy and being a gifted manipulator because it means we tend to be quicker on our feet and less burdened by emotions during a crisis. In fact  sometimes I view emotions as waste of time especially when they're spent on strangers.

So a child that you didn't know got raped & murdered:big deal it happens every day, welcome to life. But no, people have to be sad as if it was the only correct civilized response to have. Seriously I don't get it.

But I'm digressing. My answers would be:

1.no

2.yes

 

 

 But do people really genuinely care about people who aren't close to them? Or is that burden simply society guilting them into convincing themselves they care? Hence why people act broken about shit they supposedly care about that isn't happening to them.

But do people really genuinely care about people who aren't close to them? Or is that burden simply society guilting them into convincing themselves they care? Hence why people act broken about shit they supposedly care about that isn't happening to them.

I've thought about flat out asking someone who says they care that very question: "Are you being sincere in your emotions?"

But it's a delicate question to ask. That said, I know I'm not affected either when I know the person and that's what makes me different than an empath.

I envy sociopathy. I feel handicapped.

I'm content with it.  I feel comfortable all the time.  I view it as an advantage to me.  People are just tools to me.  I feel like I have a Buddhist envied ability to have zero attachment to anything.  I don't know if all sociopaths are like me but I do not believe in morality.  I only appear to follow it as long as it benefits me.  I don't know whether I would call it a blessing but it is an advantage in our society to be this way.  I think capitalism rewards those with no conscience.  I think its to the sociopath's advantage to have most of the population obeying most laws there are.  It keeps the law followers predictable and constrained.  I once heard a paranoid man ranting about the Illuminati and the Reptilians to a patron at a local library.  He was convinced everything is setup to the advantage of the sociopaths and conscienceless beings that make up those hidden organizations.   I think he's right.  He just doesn't know that these people aren't special or hidden.  They are his neighbors and friends.  They are politicians and doctors.  I can see how I'm parasitic.  I'll take advantage of anyone or anything that I want to without remorse. 

When you are unable to experience the world around you or you can't feel the sense of belonging that everyone else feels it's a curse. When you don't suffer from emotional burdens and you are capable of making rational decisions it's a blessing.

Unable to experience the world around you?  What do you mean?  And what belonging do most people feel?  It's been my experience that most people feel alone and incomplete.  I don't feel that way at all.  I feel complete at any given moment.  I only felt out of place when I believed I should feel out of place.  We are told so early in our lives to be everything but anti-social.  It makes sense that we would then feel like we don't belong.  We do belong.  We even have advantages that most people don't.  I don't think we're superior.  I don't think we're the next stage in evolution.  But we do have our niche in this world.  We can act without emotional burdens that cripple most other people.  I'm happy I am this way.  Almost everyone I know is plagued by anxiety and self-doubt.  All of that is such a waste of their neural energy.  Their misery is self-generated.  I can't help but see them as weak for it.

Hmm...

Such an opportunity to be enigmatic.

Neither and both.