Sociopath Community

One easy example is the military and how it changes your perspective on hardships and adversity.  Or how about rehabilitated felons, who now see the errors in their past life. 

On habits: I have a couple nasty habits of my own, but instead of just trading them for ones that are easily as bad, I utilizes them to further myself. For example, stalking has given me remarkable perception and helps me identify and predict human behavior. Like limey and his puppet here, they all only critique me for grammar, strongly dislike U.S. military, are British accented and are all quite coincidentally fond of you, Gypsy.

As for my grammar skills, it's not my lack of understanding the English language. More on the shit device I'm using. If we spoke you'd wouldn't complain.

It is easy to accept that you have flaws and to blame them on some deficiency. To use a medical crutch as a excuse for your wrongful behavior and the consequences that follow it, that option is for the weak.

I chose something different, I chose to better myself as painstakingly difficult as it was.

It's been a while chasing her, I'll agree.

That whole experience built a enduring persistence, that allows me to do the work I do while others falter. My remarkable endurance has pushed me past others and while I may be at the whim of one woman who within the 4 years and 7 months I've followed her has never taken the time to know me, or ask how I am. It doesn't hold me back, you learn from your mistakes. 

I think that instead of idealizing aspects of a disorder one is diagnosed with (or identifies with), people should be concerned with healthy psychological functioning. A narcissist shouldn't be content to have NPD because it confers self-confidence to him. Rather, he should recognize that his self-confidence arises from cognitive distortions and defense mechanisms that delude him. The same goes for other personality disorders. Some illnesses are organic in nature, such as autism, psychopathy, types of bipolar and certain cases of mood disorders. However, having an organic condition does not stop a person from personal development. People should work with what they have and try to be healthy...mental illness is not something to put on a pedestal.

 "Socio/Psychopaths: You get some enjoyment from fucking someone over right? Well, lucky for you that's the foundation of capitalism and corporate buisness. Sell snake oil to the masses, watch them squabble their wages on your near worthless product."

That's not the "foundation of capitalism" sweetie, although that's a cryin' shame cuz wouldn't that be fun. Last I checked business is about providing/selling services that people want. Good businesses thrive, shady ones collapse. ;)  Occasionally people make $ fucking others over but generally not as much as a good business. 

we all here have a diverse array of natural advantages over average people,

Aw, look at you finding the silver lining doll. XOXO The point you may be missing is that y'all are below average. For example, how many years you been going on chasing your lady friend, cutie?  ;) 

It doesn't mean I chose to stalk other women or let that hinder me. Regardless of how strong the initial blow was, I moved on and got back up. If I can break a 4 year dependency, I'm sure others can and already have solved their own probelms.

That's a well-meaning but deeply naive attitude. If someone has, for example, a bottle of wine a night drinking habit, how exactly are they supposed to turn that bad habit into their advantage?

It took you four years to understand the psychology of one individual woman, only to the extend that you could finally work your way into her life, and even then you realised she wasn't who you thought she was. Whatever generalisations you made from that experience are probably the wrong ones. 

by Damaged

Actually gaslighting someone is when you lie to them or do things so that they think they're remembering things wrong or to confuse them.

by Turncoat

Disorder or not, if excuses are how you function then improvement will never occur. In that area, you are right.

However, for those who blindly excuse their own issues, who don't even see that they are there? Pushing past that blind patch is the best way to promote improvement in an individual. It's a common first step to becoming a healthier functioning individual. Focusing on weaknesses is healthy as long as they don't consume you, and sometimes that takes patches of angst or existential crisis.

The most monstrous people are those who don't understand how others could see them as the monsters others claim them to be, but anyone can improve. They won't change as a person, but their behavior can.

 Well stated. 

completely agree. but one thing those with ASPD always say is that they're incredibly bored. i don't want to be bored.

Wow, bitch.