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Originally Posted by IndieVisible
There is avast spectrum for empathy. A lot of people even NORMs have some trouble with empathy, for others with some disorders even more trouble with empathy. Some claim they can turn it off or on, there is no reason to doubt that because we are talking about a wide spectrum here.
The definition of empathy is it is made up of two parts to equal true empathy.
Cognitive: the ability to understand it, and affective: the ability to actually feel how the other person feels. Most ASPD and NARCS have cognitive, as do most people. It's simply the intelligence to recognize some one is in pain and understand why they are in pain.
So it's very possible if this two part theory is correct for any one to have a problem with either components or both to no fault of their own. A person with very good cognitive can even simulate the feeling without actually feeling it, if they wanted too. And many ASPD will do that for their children or some times spouse. Caring is a option.
Forget Freud. We've made huge advances since his "Book of Dreams". Recent studies suggest there are actually 2 sub-levels if sociopaths. And the second sub-level is believed to feel some empathy. Also interesting according to the DSM5 they now add trouble with empathy with borderlines, joining ASPD and NPD.
Personally I believe any thing is possible, the key for sociopaths will center around bonding. If they can bond to some one it opens the path for conscience and empathy.
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I've a child , she's a lil child , 4 months old to be exact , there is no real connection actually , i always i fake everythin' around her mom , my wife who doesn't know anythin' about me , but the min her mom walks out the door , i stop and start doin' somethin' else , i don't care .
i mean for the child when i think about what if someone harass her later when she gets old i feel rage , i know from my observation that means we care . but i don't know really what is that , and the feeling i get when about this stuff is rage only , i mean i didn't feel somethin' new , like caring .
Basically i know / experience few feeling on regular basis like rage , anger . excited ( nor sure if that name fits , it's when i hurt / manipulate someone or burn stuff ) vengeful .
So basically if i experienced the caring feel i wouldn't know what it that but i'll defiantly know that's somethin' new .
Yesterday i read somewhere here that i should be try to feel sad , i should tell myself am sad fake a feeling until i really get it , this is nonsense
1- I've already faked everythin' on a regular basis with my child , didn't work
2- Really , the 1st feelin' you wanna give a psychopath is sadness , dunno how you imagined or said that , but trust me when i say , if we experienced the sadness , that feeling when people say they are sad for bla bla bla , add this to the most common feeling that psychopaths have which is rage , you'll create a serial killer , it's already enough for us to feel the rage with our lack of empathy .