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Originally Posted by Girl_Interrupted
It's just not likely to be BPD and ASPD, because they clash.
You just think you have ASPD because you lack empathy, and that's common with 90% of people with BPD
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I looked up something when you said this because I know there's some truth in what you say but I also know it's not empathy I lack. I found this which I think is something that might help.
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"Having empathy isn't so easy when we are in a distraught emotional state ourselves. It can be hard to give when we are needy. We have all been there at times. Showing empathy isn't so easy when the person we are trying to comfort is having an experience we can't relate to - either in terms of noticing it or it terms of how to respond to it. We have all found ourselves in this situation at times."
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I don't think it's so much that BPD
lack the empathy, I care very deeply for people and try to relate to their problems and feel for them etc... but I think it's that BPD people tend to be needy and self-focused, worried about their problems so much that at times we don't show empathy because our energy is diverted toward ourselves. I think the difference in the empathy factor is that ASPD people actually don't conjure up the emotional response toward others ever.
That's just my take, but if I'm right, I say look to yourself and ask which of the two things it is, are you very worried about yourself, yoru problems and very needy therefore can't always show empathy or do you really not feel empathy for others ever?