Sociopath Community

If it is my amygdala, what good does it do me to know it?

Yes, I would perhaps want more really serious and important things to do. Nicole Kidman the actress is not a sociopath...i think. This is OT but some actresses are sociopaths though like e.g. Angelina Jolie.

So you think you are ASPD? Okay... lucky guess, because you could also be a schitzoid personality disorder... in which case, it could be something more along the lines of a dopamine issue.

I have some traits that are in line with ASPD that doesn't mean I have it. I also have traits that point to other things like ADHD, NPD, histrionic personality disorder and so on. According to an online test for personality disorders, ASPD and histrionic were ones I'm most likely to have. Schizoid came second to last.

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I've went through the same things. When I'm not focused on the task at hand I'm just numb to it all. I have to make an active effort to fight that lack of sense and be more perceptive. If you find an answer to your own question, let me know.

I really don't think IQ has anything to do with it.

Ok, but I don't really think there is a purpose to anything and that what most people do is unimportant. I have even been a nihilist a while, and I still retain some of these beliefs (or it's more like insights). Still, I feel (and have perhaps always felt in different ways) that I have a higher purpose. I need to and should care more about certain things relating to my own situation, but to care about (in a serious way) the stupid things most people do I wouldn't want to.

No, looking at only my IQ I should have been very successful in life. I haven't been yet... But someday I will show them of course.

IQ =/= success in life

True that. My IQ is close to Mensa-level and yet I haven't been successful. One of my friends has (according to himself) an even higher IQ, and he is an unemployed alcoholic.

I don't think there's anything extreme about you. You display typical traits of a couple of personality disorders, like the majority of people here.

Thanks! But I have done "extreme" things. Not so bad but extreme nonetheless. One of my friends (who isn't alive anymore) said that "anything you do is extreme". This is actually something I'm quite proud of and I like to talk about these "exploits".

Watch this one, sharp edges.

by Storm

Thanks! But I have done "extreme" things. 

 What do you consider extreme? I'd say we all here in a direct way have done things average people would consider extreme. Like stalking someone for 5 years.