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Originally Posted by Atypical_Disaster
I just have some of the traits. Calling them psychopathic or sociopathic doesn't matter that much. I may simply call them Antisocial traits in the future since that is the personality disorder in the DSM.
I am incapable of empathy. That is just a fact, and I've known that about myself since I was a child. I noticed that I didn't "feel" connections to other people's emotions/suffering/and so on.
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You're the only authority here on how you feel, so I'll defer to you on those matters.
What I will extend is the possibility that you haven't had those emotions appropriately stirred with therapy or drugs yet (there are a deluge of drugs that can induce empathetic neurochemistry). And even if if it's exactly as you say, and you're somehow incapable of empathy, that doesn't somehow make a content life mutually exclusive. I've had periods where I was non-empathetic, but still had the time of my life.
Plus, I'm guessing you're pretty well incentivized to behave in appropriate ways to ensure your continued happiness. I heard a guy over in the NPD section at Psychforums call it his "punitive conscience," meaning he was well controlled by laws regardless of his lack of empathy, so it all shook out evenly in the end.