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Aug 24, 2012, 02:28 PM
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"If you are not feeling ecstatic about having to cope everyday instead of just being able to live everyday, then you have every right to want to question it. I really don't think antisocials would want to stay the way they are if they realized how difficult their lives were or know different, but since I am not ASPD I don't want to assume anything, nor do I want anyone to change if they are content with themselves."
That's a really interesting point, not meaning to detract from the OP & her identity crisis. And I'm more than happy to help you out with this one...
As far as I know, the consensus varies from one individual to the other. Just like the way some emotionally-healthy people wish they 'couldn't feel anymore so they wouldn't get hurt' & some people embrace their ability to feel. Some antisocials have a harder time with interpersonal interactions & wish things were easier. Meanwhile, not being as sensitive or as affected by moral standards has its own benefits when within the right hands.
I'm a bit over the fence on this one. I've still got a great deal more thinking to do, because it is both my poison & my antidote... I appreciate the better qualities & the bad. Just like any quality in a person. Emotional strengths & weaknesses, intellectual, physical, etc.
Everyone wavers between contentment & discontent. I think & over-analyze far too much, so I perhaps recognize this more than many of my peers. That & my severity perpetually increases with my manias/psychotic states... So I may very well be an exception to the rule.
And hey! We're not a VIP club. 
It's just difficult because every online outlet for people with ASPD is incredibly saturated with either (a) people wanting everyone else to diagnose them as antisocial or (b) people complaining about their antisocial family members/friends. While most everyone else here isn't entirely talkative, it's just a bit infuriating to see the same posts over & over again. They may as well all be copying one another because the content is the exact same every time.
Astute response to her query, though, obj.
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