Whats the difference between aspergers and sociopath/psychopath/antisocial personality disorder?
8 Answers to "Whats the difference between aspergers and sociopath/psychopath/antisocial personality disorder?"
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Sociopaths et al do not feel the same way as most people. Simplistically, they understand right and wrong, but do not apply it to themselves other than to think what they want is right and anything they perceive as not in their better interests is wrong. They lack empathy for others, which allows them to treat others without considering others' feelings. From what I've read, Aspergers is a scale of autism and people affected by it are often very empathetic and it is their ex
pression of their feelings and experience of the world that are different. There can be people with aspergers who are sociopathic, but they are not one and the same thing. Like (2)
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Whats the difference between aspergers and sociopath/psychopath/antisocial personality disorder?
1) A person with Aspergers syndrome is extremely insensitive but has some empathy.
2) A psychopath is extremely sensitive but has no empathy.
3) Apathy is not having sensitivity and not having empathy.
What is the difference between sensitivity and empathy?
A) Sensitivity is the knowledge and associated skills to deduce what another person is feeling.
-Skills include being able to read a persons face and tone of voice when one wants to. Skill is always voluntary. Skill is seldom obsessive.
B) Empathy is feeling oneself some feelings that one has already been deduced in another person.
-Empathy includes feeling sad when one hears someone else cry. Empathy is not always voluntary. Empathy is usually obsessive.
Both can do evil things. However, the psychopath does so more often and is caught less often. The psychopath is protected from punishment by his sensitivity. The Aspergers syndrome person is punished by by his empathy.
The above is the informal opinion of a person with Asperger's syndrome. The informal opinion of a psychopath would be at least as interesting.Like (1)
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Sociopaths are Neuro-Typical.
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I am an Asperger's diagnosed man. I believe that Aspergers means you are socially awkward. A psychopath has no empathy for his victim. He doesn't have regret. Someone with anti social personality disorder doesn't want to involve himself with humanity. He isn't neccesarily a monster. He has immense difficulty interacting with others. Unfortunately there are sick people that derive pleasure out of provoking him.
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Murder. Sociopaths and psychopaths have no problem killing. My step cousin has asbergers and he's to calm and laid back to kill. However when he was younger and would get very angry i would question his boundaries on that.
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I have been reading on Aspergers and they cannot be compared with whatever you have described = 2nd choice.
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well, I have aspergers, and I am definitely not a psychopath.
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Best Answer (Chosen by Voting):
Posted by corbin00 May 26th, 2012 at 11:11PM
Get out your DSM IV and even then some of these will commingle. Good Luck
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