ext_1686 ([identity profile] maeritrae.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] flamingsword 2010-04-01 09:00 am (UTC)

Don't worry, you're not a sociopath - though I can understand the feeling. Aspies have different value sets and emotional responses to neurotypicals, but we do have have them. We make moral judgements and we react emotionally, and I've found that in a lot of ways my moral code is more restricting than a neurotypical's and my reactions are more intense. A sociopath makes no moral judgement of their own actions; they want, they take, with no concern for right or wrong. I'm assuming you've never killed someone. The question to ask yourself is, do you not kill because you think it's wrong to end another's life without a good reason, or because you know if you kill someone other people will put you in jail and you don't want to go there? The answer should be quite obvious; and if you go with option b, then yes, you might be a sociopath. But to be honest a true sociopath would realise that they were one, shrug, and get on with their sociopathic little life. It wouldn't matter to them because only other people would make value judgements about being a sociopath being a negative thing.

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