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Love is a subjective term, though.

What you may experience as love may not be the same a what someone else experiences, neurotypical or not.

What you're trying to describe is the difference between Cognitive Empathy and Affective Empathy.

 They're not the same thing.

It's good that you've never felt guilt. It is most definitely a feeling, and a nasty one. I can see why so many people tapdance around bullshit to try to avoid feeling it. I've experienced it less than 10 times in my life.

'They just use it differently, or it manifests in different ways'

So, someone with ASPD might not feel the emotion of guilt (although I personally wouldn't even call that an emotion, more a thought process), but instead might feel regret, or, on the other hand, accomplishment.

Also, love is felt by psychopaths, it's just not the same kind, as it's not revolved around caring about the other person as an individual. Nonetheless, still love, in it's own twisted way.

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lol, people with a disorder writing the DSM criteria for it? that would mostly consist of:

1. that bitch deserved it

2. they're all stupid

3. i deserve nice things

4. i'm perfectly fine

it's not pointless to study it if you can't get those with distorted perceptions to accurately assess their issues. if they could do that, they probably wouldn't have such issues..

You claim psychology is lousy and erroneous, yet you seem to cling on your own perception of things to define concepts that have already been discovered and analyzed, like the psychopaths --which do not form attachments, ergo, no, no love.

The problem in psychology is that everything is a spectrum. In the DSM, they are more likely utilizing the extreme versions. 

You'd be amazed what strangers talk to me about, kiddo.

The study of emotion is flawed, yes. But they've established some excellent guidelines for predicting human behaviour across the board.

You're a philosophy major, right? You talk like a first year philosophy major. ;)

DSM-VI, made by the loopy for the loopy.

New criteria for NPD:

1) Be awesome.

2) Have bitches staring at you wherever you go.

3) Have IQ over 300 and everyone else lower than 80.

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No, I don't think that would be a good idea. Especially since most of them have a warped perception of reality.

There's a difference between idiotic NPD and somewhat-realistic NPD.

That being said, for disorders that change your perception completely, such as NPD, need to have a balance of both subjective experience and objective experience.

They do not form empathetic attachments. Empathetic attachments are not the only attachments there are.

Precisely, but psychology does not realise the spectrum, and only wishes to separate people. Hence why, I do not believe in labels, as hipster as that sounds. It's not so much that they are utilising the extreme versions, but more that they only SEE the extreme versions, and ignore everything else.