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Old Jan 03, 2016, 11:41 AM
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I think this helps make a point -- psychopaths are different from narcissists who need "supply". Which is why all the "articles" that put all the "bad" things about different narcissists into one basket annoy and bother me so much.

I think I'm the opposite of Atypical in a way -- I'm geeky though I don't qualify for Asperger's syndrome. Asperger's people tend to lack what psychopaths have -- cognitive empathy -- and do have what psychopaths lack -- affective/emotional empathy.

Both psychopaths and geeks don't fit into normal social relationships, though we can sometimes fake it in. But then we're not really being "authentic."
What I've always found hypocritical is how everyone says psychopaths lie literally all the time... but take one look at society and "normal" people, do us psychopaths really have a choice in the matter? We have to blend in, otherwise we'd have to deal with a bunch of annoying **** than none of us have time for.

I have a lot of cognitive empathy... but it's just that, so therefore it's all cold.
Thanks for this!
marmaduke