I'm anti-social, but don't actually physically harm people. Why and how !
Question: You are not "clinically anti-social". Nor would you want to be.
You are mistaking being a loner for anti-social personality disorder. There is a big difference. ASPD sufferers, commonly known as sociopaths, not only do hurt people, we often enjoy it. I should know, I was diagnosed when I was 19, though I hurt my first victim when I was only 9 (I threw a kid that made me mad in front of a truck and only the gods above kept them from getting run over).
When I was in high school, I was well known for bouncing kids off of walls, throwing them down stairs, and even tossed a kid off the second story breezeway. I never got into trouble for it, because I always got them to take the first swing at me. Self defense coupled with the fact that I was in foster care because my father was abusive and my mother was in a mental hospital, and I usually got pity rather than punishment. The few "punishments" I got were counselling sessions and one suspension. Its amazing what a straight A student could get away with in the early 80's.
Your first misconception is that sufferers of ASPD do not socialize. We do, and we are very good at it, we just do not care about the people we are interacting with. In our minds, the average person is their for our amusement and no other reason, and we amuse ourselves in some dark ways. Except for the kids I hurt, I was rather well liked in school, not tops of the popularity food chain, but well liked. Just don't ask how many of the kids who thought I was their "friend" got into trouble when I got away with things.
To get a diagnosis for ASPD you have to be violent, manipulative, have no empathy for others, and fit the Diagnostic Criteria (DSM-IV)
1. Since the age of fifteen or younger there has been a disregard for and violation of the right's of others, those right's considered normal by the local culture, as indicated by at least three of the following:
A. Repeated acts that could lead to arrest.
B. Conning for pleasure or profit, repeated lying, or the use of aliases.
C. Failure to plan ahead or being impulsive.
D. Repeated assaults on others.
E. Reckless when it comes to their or others safety.
F. Poor work behavior or failure to honor financial obligations.
G. Rationalizing the pain they inflict on others.
2. At least eighteen years in age.
3. Evidence of a Conduct Disorder, with its onset before the age of fifteen.
4. Symptoms not due to another mental disorder.
ASPD sufferers do not have the fear of repurcussions. To us, karma is why we exist, we are here to punish others for their frailty. To us, everyone else is weak, because they are motivate by fear of what others might do while we do not care. Though we prefer our freedom to incarceration, even jailed we are uniquely free, because in the long run, nothing much matters to us as long as we are testing the limits of others.
High functioning ASPD sufferers find ways to inflict damage without getting arrested. We hunt (mostly with bow, spear, and traps, because guns end things too quickly), we carve (stone and wood because it doesn't cry or scream when we work our will on it). We can and do have relationships, but we are very hard on those who are closest to us.
Parenting as a sociopath is a strange concept, and most sociopaths are abusive parents, though I was not. I was a strict parent, and many of the rules I had in place for my kids were to keep them safe. ASPD runs in families, along with a host of other disorders. My daughter suffers from the disorder, though her diagnosis at the present is bipolar disorder and schizophrenia with psychotic tendencies. She is a very pretty, very charming girl that will shove your head into a wall if you give her the chance and will cut herself to shreds if she has no one else to harm. She is in an inpatient treatment facility and will remain there until she learns to maintain her illness better.
Answers: You are not "clinically anti-social". Nor would you want to be.
You are mistaking being a loner for anti-social personality disorder. There is a big difference. ASPD sufferers, commonly known as sociopaths, not only do hurt people, we often enjoy it. I should know, I was diagnosed when I was 19, though I hurt my first victim when I was only 9 (I threw a kid that made me mad in front of a truck and only the gods above kept them from getting run over).
When I was in high school, I was well known for bouncing kids off of walls, throwing them down stairs, and even tossed a kid off the second story breezeway. I never got into trouble for it, because I always got them to take the first swing at me. Self defense coupled with the fact that I was in foster care because my father was abusive and my mother was in a mental hospital, and I usually got pity rather than punishment. The few "punishments" I got were counselling sessions and one suspension. Its amazing what a straight A student could get away with in the early 80's.
Your first misconception is that sufferers of ASPD do not socialize. We do, and we are very good at it, we just do not care about the people we are interacting with. In our minds, the average person is their for our amusement and no other reason, and we amuse ourselves in some dark ways. Except for the kids I hurt, I was rather well liked in school, not tops of the popularity food chain, but well liked. Just don't ask how many of the kids who thought I was their "friend" got into trouble when I got away with things.
To get a diagnosis for ASPD you have to be violent, manipulative, have no empathy for others, and fit the Diagnostic Criteria (DSM-IV)
1. Since the age of fifteen or younger there has been a disregard for and violation of the right's of others, those right's considered normal by the local culture, as indicated by at least three of the following:
A. Repeated acts that could lead to arrest.
B. Conning for pleasure or profit, repeated lying, or the use of aliases.
C. Failure to plan ahead or being impulsive.
D. Repeated assaults on others.
E. Reckless when it comes to their or others safety.
F. Poor work behavior or failure to honor financial obligations.
G. Rationalizing the pain they inflict on others.
2. At least eighteen years in age.
3. Evidence of a Conduct Disorder, with its onset before the age of fifteen.
4. Symptoms not due to another mental disorder.
ASPD sufferers do not have the fear of repurcussions. To us, karma is why we exist, we are here to punish others for their frailty. To us, everyone else is weak, because they are motivate by fear of what others might do while we do not care. Though we prefer our freedom to incarceration, even jailed we are uniquely free, because in the long run, nothing much matters to us as long as we are testing the limits of others.
High functioning ASPD sufferers find ways to inflict damage without getting arrested. We hunt (mostly with bow, spear, and traps, because guns end things too quickly), we carve (stone and wood because it doesn't cry or scream when we work our will on it). We can and do have relationships, but we are very hard on those who are closest to us.
Parenting as a sociopath is a strange concept, and most sociopaths are abusive parents, though I was not. I was a strict parent, and many of the rules I had in place for my kids were to keep them safe. ASPD runs in families, along with a host of other disorders. My daughter suffers from the disorder, though her diagnosis at the present is bipolar disorder and schizophrenia with psychotic tendencies. She is a very pretty, very charming girl that will shove your head into a wall if you give her the chance and will cut herself to shreds if she has no one else to harm. She is in an inpatient treatment facility and will remain there until she learns to maintain her illness better.
clinical definition of antisocial vs common tonghe
Sounds like your shy.
It's either you're born that way, or you choose the behavior.
Maybe it's fight or flight, or survival of the fittest. Although I'm not saying anti-social behavior is fit or appropriate.
Well keep searching and best of luck to you. It's not easy is it?
I was working with a sociopath.....
http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~mcafee/Bin/s...
Yes, I read somewhere you are angry about something, and you admitted that you resent being you, as you didn't choose it, so you are angry with the monkeys or God, depending on your viewpoint. How do you feel towards your parents for having you in the first place?
I am the same way, I am Anti-Social.I don't think it has anything to do with any selective evolutionary B.S. or any psycho-analytical B.S. you can pull out of your @ss.People SUCK straight up!!! there cruel and treat each other like sh*t.Just take a look around you at some of the answers and attitudes toward each other in this place.Its just a reflection or a glimpse if you will of what the world has become.To be in denial and call some one weird for not wanting anything to do with the rest of the world when the world is a f*cked up place is INSANE in itself!.....
perhaps you prefer your own company and maybe a bit shy? nothing wrong with that .
Absolutely, anti-social doesn't mean you don't care about your own interests and wellbeing. You may avoid hurting others so as to protect yourself from the repercussions. Maybe its the fear of karma.
I also am like this.
Since I have the internet it keeps me content.
Being antisocial doesn't necessarily involve causing physical harm. Regardless, you clearly have some concerns over your mental state or your impulses, so it would be a good idea to speak to a professional.
It sounds like you may not be anti-social but rather asocial. Part of my diagnosis is being asocial. I generaly avoid social situations whenever possible but do not show any violent or overly aggressive tendancies.
To put it in simpliest terms someone who is anti-social actively tried to destroy society. Being asocial I just want to sit off to the side and hope it all goes away on it's own.
Yes, a good bj would help
you're a real card, so now shuffle on out lol