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Originally Posted by Atypical_Disaster
Spot on about lay people. I have heard so many people say, "oh my ex was such an asshole he/she MUST have been a sociopath/narcissist/psychopath/whatever" and I often say, "well, it's possible that he/she was just an asshole, why pathologize it?"
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No kidding. To me, for the most part, personality disorder diagnosis are no different than stereotypical labels suck as "geek", "goth", "jock", or whatever else people call other people who fit into a specific subgroup.
While it is true that personality disorder diagnosis are justified sometimes, I think they are only relevant in the most extreme cases.
Another words, if somebody is an asshole, a liar, a manipulator, or is more selfish than normal, I don't think that they automatically qualify as a Narcissist, Sociopath, ASPD, or whatever other labels you want to throw on them.